Historic Battlefields of Pakistan
- ISBN-10
- 0195978978
- ISBN-13
- 9780195978971
- Category
- History / Military / General
- Pages
- 140
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Johnny Torrens-Spence
Description
The battles whose sites are here depicted include some of the greatest military commanders of all time, including Alexander the Great, Genghiz Khan, Mahmud Ghaznavi, Ranjit Singh, and Sir Charles Napier. Drawing on his own military experience, official military reports, private memoirs, and local folk traditions, the author paints a lively description of each battle with detailed maps. The book is aimed at the general reader and traveller, but will also interest serious military historians.
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