The Decisive Battles of World History

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1992, 1993. Good translation of the main surviving Arabic account of the

battles of Yarmouk and al-Qadisiyyah.

Hofschroer, Peter. Leipzig 1813. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1993. A

somewhat technical treatment of the battle, with a very complete list of all

the units involved.

Holmes, Richard. %DWWOH¿HOG 'HFLVLYH &RQÀLFWV LQ +LVWRU\. New York:

Oxford University Press, 2006. Very short blurbs on each battle, in what

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Joglekar, Jaywant. Decisive Battles That India Lost. Lexington: Lulu, 1970.

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and their protagonists.

Jukes, Geoffrey. The Russo-Japanese War. Oxford: Osprey Publishing,

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Kedar, B., ed. The Horns of Hattin: Proceedings of the Second Conference

of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. London:

Variorum, 1992. Collection of scholarly essays on the battle and related

topics.

Knight, Roger. The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio

Nelson. New York: Basic Books, 2007. Detailed biography of the famous

admiral by a maritime history scholar.

Konstam, Angus. Poltava 1709. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. Short but

well-illustrated narrative of the battle.

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But Should. Centennial, CO: Military Writers Press, 2009. Contains a good

chapter on the Battle of Badr.