The first pitched battle in history, the Battle of Qa’desh, the legendary Trojan War, the Peloponnesian War, the Battle of Talas, the Battle of Manzikert, the Crusades, the Hundred Years War, the Occupation of Vienna, the 30 Years War, the Battle of Waterloo, the American Civil War, the Russo-Japanese War, World War I, Stalingrad, World War II (particularly Normandy and Hiroshima), the 1948-49 Arab-Israeli War, the Korean War, and the Gulf Wars...
When Mehmed the Second ordered his soldiers to be ready to fight in front of Constantinople′s city walls; when Hitler ordered his soldiers to invade Stalingrad “regardless of the price;” when Paul Warfield Tibbets, the pilot of Enola Gay, the aircraft that carried the atomic bomb, ordered the bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima; and when US President George Bush initiated “Operation Desert Storm ,” which would place the US in the heart of Middle East for a long time; they all had one thing in mind: winning the war by defeating the enemy...
This exciting book is like a documentary, detailing the events of 33 history-making wars, using details compiled by researcher and writer Ali Çimen, and historical consultant Assoc. Prof. Göknur Göğebakan...