The Decisive Battles of World History

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Bibliography


Adkins, Roy. Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle. London: Little Brown,



  1. Popular recounting of the battle.


Amitai-Preiss, Reuven. Mongols and Mamluks. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995. Scholarly book that narrowly focuses just on the
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Babur. The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. W.
Thackston, trans. New York: Modern Library, 2002. Entertaining translation
of Babur’s autobiography.


Beeching, Jack. The Galleys at Lepanto. New York: Scribner, 1982. Older
standard narrative of the battle and events leading up to it.


Beevor, Anthony. D-Day: The Battle for Normandy. New York: Penguin,



  1. Another in the sequence of Beevor’s excellent books on the Second
    World War.


———. Stalingrad. New York: Viking, 1998. Well-written and well-
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epic battle.


Bicheno, Hugh. Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto, 1571. London:
Cassel, 2003. Work that focuses more narrowly on the campaign and battle
itself than the other books listed.


Bonk, David. Trenton and Princeton 1776–77. Oxford: Osprey Publishing,



  1. Typical Osprey publication—short, workmanlike summary, with
    particularly helpful maps and visuals.


Bradbury, Jim. The Battle of Hastings. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: The
History Press, 2010. Accessible, popular account of William’s life and career.

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