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Outnumbered : Incredible Stories of History's Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets by Cormac O'Brien, 1967- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Outnumbered : Incredible Stories of History's Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets about?
Fourteen dramatic stories of troops outnumbered but not outmatched—from Hannibal's Carthaginians to the English at Agincourt to the Red Army in WWII. Even a commander as fearless, self-assured, and battle-hardened as Alexander the Great, leading 40,000 Macedonian troops, must have quailed at the sight that met him as he neared the village of Issus, Asia Minor, in 333 BCE: an unexpectedly and unimaginably vast Persian force of some 100,000 men, spanning the Mediterranean coastal plain as far as t
Who reads Outnumbered : Incredible Stories of History's Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Cormac O'Brien, 1967-
- Publisher
- Beverly, MA: Fair Winds Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781616738433
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Military, Military History
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (56 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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