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基本信息
·出版社：National Geographic Books
·页码：288 页码
·出版日：2003年
·ISBN：0792233743
·条码：9780792233749
·版次：2003-12-01
·装帧：精装
·开本：16开 16开
内容简介
Book Description
InBattlegrounds, Michael Stephenson assembles an impressive roster of the world’s best military historians and writers, including Dr. David Chandler, Richard Holmes, John Warry, and Brendan Morrissey, to discuss the impact of geography on military strategy and history. This collection of essays, illustrated with vintage and modern maps, offers geographic adventure around the world, across centuries, and through every kind of terrain, shedding new light on famous battles and introducing less well-known—but nevertheless significant—moments in military history.
Throughout military history, battles have often been determined by certain “geographic imperatives”—characteristics of the terrain that significantly affect the nature of the fighting. Confrontations, therefore, have essentially been decided by an army1/4s ability to adapt to geographical features, giving rivers, mountains, and beaches lead roles in the political shaping of the world.
From Alexander the Great’s attack across the Granicus in 334 B.C. to the U.S. siege of the mountains of Afghanistan in 2001, geography has been a permanent and crucial factor in battle. Battlegrounds provides an unprecedented and fascinating look at this most formidable of adversaries throughout the history of warfare.
FromPublishers Weekly
Thirteen sections, each featuring a type of terrain or geographical feature, assess geography's role in determining military strategy and tactics. Extensively illustrated with maps and photos, each chapter contains two to four short summaries of battles or campaigns penned by distinguished military historians: Joseph Alexander, Gary Gallagher, Eric Bergerud and Bryan Perrett are all represented. The articles discuss the military difficulties presented by local geographies: movement is slow and visibility poor in forests, such as the Southeast Asia's Ia Drang Valley or the Teutoberger Wald of Germany circa 9 A.D. The classification of features and problems lends itself to difficulties, however: Yorktown and Bataan illustrate being trapped on a peninsula, but so does Gallipoli, which is for some reason in the "Coasts" section along with Marathon and Tarawa. Add to this the fact that contemporary and historical maps are merrily mixed, which can be misleading in terms of accuracy. On the whole, the book is a trifle superficial for the serious military student, but that level of background knowledge is needed to get full value from some of the articles and most of the maps.
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 244 Width (mm) 187
作者简介
MICHAET STEPHENSON has been a professional book editor for over 25 years,working both in the UK and USA,and for much of that time has had a particular involvement in military publishing.For over six years he was the Editor of The Miliary Book Clut in New York,the largest of its kind in the world.He is the author of the Nuclear Casebook:The Facts and Figures of Argageddon and The Nuclear Dictionary.He Lives in New York.
ROBERT COWLEY is the founding editor of MHQ:The Quarterly Jornal of Miliary History.He has edited three MHQ anthologies:No End Save Victory about World Wrll,Whth My Face to the Enemy,about the Civil War and,most recently,The Great War.He has also edited three volumes in the What lf?series.
目录
INTRODUCTION:Robert Cowley
EDITOR'S NOTE:Michael Stephenson
1.PLAINS
ALCZANDER AT ISSUS,Turkdy,333 B.C.:Matthew Bennett
A GOOD DAY TO DIE,The Little Big Horn,1876:Bryan Perrett
THE END OF HTE BEGINNING,EL Alamein,Enypt,1942:Bryan Perrett
2.VALLEYS
DEATH RIDE,Balakiava,Russia,1854:Ian Castle
JUBAL EARLY IN THE SHENANDOAH,Cedar Creek,Virginia,1864:Gary Gallagher
3.RIVERS
ALEXANDER AT THE HYDASPES,India,326B.C.:Matthew Bennett
CROSSING THE BEREZNA,Russia,1812:Phillip Haythornthwaite
"A DROP TOO MANY,"Arnhem,Holland,1944:Peter A.Huchthausen
4.ISLANDS
CRUSADERS'LAST STAND,The Great Siege of Malta,1565:Bryan Perrett
OUT OF THE BLUE,Crete,Greece,1941:Will Fowler
SUFUR ISLAND,Iwo Jima,1945:Colonel Joseph H.Alexander,USMC(Ret.)
5.WOODS AND FOREST
THE MASSACRE OF THE LEGIONS,Teutoburg forest,Germany,A.D.9:Bryan Perrett
INTO THE WILDERNESS,Chancellorsville,1863:Gary Gallagher
DEVIL DOGS,Belleau Wood,France,1918:Agostino von Hassell
6.COASTS
BEACHHEAD VECTORY,Marathon,Greece,490B.C.:Mttew Bennett
BURIED ON THE BEACHES,Galliplli,1915:Peter A.Huchthausen
A BLOOKY BRAWL,Tarawa,Gilbert Islands,1943:Agostino von Hassell
7.HIGHGROUND:HILLS,MOUNTAINS,RIDGES
THE CHOSEN FEW,Masada,Israel,A.D.73-74:Matthew Bennett
"FLZ BAYONETS,"THE LITTLE ROUND TOP,GETTYSBURG,1863:gARY gALLAGHER
THE CANADIANW'GREAT ASSAULT,Vimy Ridge,France,1917:Nigel Cave
HAUNTED HIGHLANDS,"Bloody Nose Ridge,"Peleliu,1944:Colonel Joseph H.Alexander,USMC(Ret)
CROWN OF THORNS,Monte Cassino,Italy,1944:Stephen Badsey
FROZEN CHOSIN,North Korea,1950:Colonel Joseph H.Alexander,USMC(Ret.)
JUNGLE HIGHLANDS,The Siege of Khe Sanh,Vietam,1968:Colonel Joseph H.Alexander,USMC(Ret.)
8.DESERT
A DESERT STORM,Omdurman,Sudan,1898:Bryan Perrett
FIRE STORM:Desert Saber,Kuwait/Irag,1991:Will fowler
9.JUNGLE
NEW GUINEA NIGHTMARE,Buna,Papua New Guinea,1942-43:Eric Bergerud
FIND,FIX,AND DESTROY,The Ia Drang Valley,Vietnam,1965:Eric Bergrud
10.PASSES
LEONIDAS'LAST STAND,Thermopylae,Greedc,480B.C.:Mattew Bennett
THE BLOODING,Kasserine Pass,Tunisia,1943:Bryan Perrett
11.BAYS AND HARBORS
AMBUSH IN THE STRAITS,Salamis,Greece,480B.C.:Mattew Bennett
NELSON AT THE BATTLE OF THE NILE,Egypt,1798:Philip Haythorthwaite
"DAMN THE TORPEDOES,"Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay,1864:Gary Gallagher
12.PENINSULAS
"THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN,"Youktown,Virginia,1781:Ian Knight
THE BATTLING BASTARDS,Bataan,pHILIPPINES,1941-42:Michael Stephenson
13.THE GEOGRAPHY OF HELL
"THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLAON,"Passchendaele,Belgium,1917:Stephen Badsey
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS,"Verdun,France,1916:Stephen Badwey
CITY OF THE DEAD,Staligrad,Russia,1942-44:Will Fowler
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