Fatal Victories
- ISBN-10
- 1933648120
- ISBN-13
- 9781933648125
- Category
- Battles
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-10
- Author
- William Weir
Description
A bull's eye performance.-Publishers Weekly Unique and thought-provoking.-The Historian A noted historian and master storyteller explores the costly, often calamitous -effects of victories gained by brilliant military commanders in fourteen historical -battles-from Hannibal at Cannae to Bunker Hill, Sarajevo, Pearl Harbor, and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam.
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