The Decisive Battles of World History

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Greenhill, 2003. Good, reliable, and readable volume tracing the rise and fall

of the order, with an entire chapter on the Battle of Tannenberg.

———. Tannenberg and After. Chicago: Lithuanian Research Center,

1999. Authoritative narrative of events leading up to the battle and its
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biography of the Mughal emperor by a leading scholar.

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