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The Allure of Battle. History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive. Davis uses a three part structure for each chapter: "Historical Setting" to put it in context, "The Battle" for what happened, and "Results" for the historical, political, and social consequences essentially, why it's important.

There are a fair number of illustrations, maps, battle formations, paintings, and brief side stories all to flesh out the text. The side stories typically take up half a page and range from further explanation of matters from the text What was Greek Fire? Who were the Mamluks? You may think this book is geared toward aficionados of military history, but I honestly feel this book is best suited for a reader that is generally put off by the topic.

That's not to say it's designed for conversion. But I feel military history is too often pigeonholed into a separate category, something interesting and valuable only to people that like fighting and war.

This criticism often comes in the form of "a bunch of names and dates", and indeed many people do learn history as learning a list of things that happened and when they happened without actually understanding why they happened or why we still talk about them.

Davis does an excellent job to humanize the parties involved, making the stories resonate from their time to our own. Daaren Durga. I learned a lot from this book.

Its pacing was great, never dwelling on one battle for too long, and oftentimes, the results of one battle set the scene for the next. The "What ifs? I used this book as a resource for a fifth grade history project. Steven Peterson. Author 21 books followers. Paul Davis undertakes an effort to identify the most decisive battles in history.

The three criteria that he uses to select key battles: "1. The outcome of the battle brought about a major political or social change. Had the outcome of the battle been reversed, major political or social changes would have ensued.

The battle marks the introduction of a major change in warfare. The book reads pretty well and provokes a lot of thinking about the subject. However, there is some idiosyncrasy in the selection of battles.

Of course, honorable people will differ, but some of the choices are strange indeed. Inchon is selected as a decisive battle; yet the Korean War was something of a draw. Hard for me to see how a long, bloody, and indecisive conflict could have a battle conceived as one of the world's most decisive combats. A third rate power Iraq against the most powerful nation on earth?

A one-sided conflict. Further, the invasion of Iraq in the 21st century suggests that there was nothing decisive about Desert Storm. Otherwise, why a revisitation of the conflict between the United States and Iraq? Further, the author uses a strange logic to argue that Pearl Harbor was decisive. A great loss led to the US entering the war. An awkward logic by which to label this decisive.

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