Brassey's dictionary of battles

by John Laffin

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Beginning with Megiddo, 1469 BC, the first recorded battle of history, and ending with the late-20th-century wars, this book covers conflicts on the sea, land and in the air. It contains details of over 7000 battles, campaigns and wars arranged alphabetically covering all famous and many less well-known encounters. As a further guide, major wars with their battles are listed chronologically at the front of the book.… (more)

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I respectfully disagree with earlier reviewer - I checked just ONE battle: Grunnervaldt on page 187. Not only 3 sentences about such big battle but more absurd then I could ever imagine in such a short space. I use this example as a joke sometimes. For starter: wrong/badly misspelled name of the place, wrong year, very wrong King and absolutely wrong winner! I can only suspect that author intended to write about Battle of Grunwald.
Then, on page 418, same battle but under name Tannenberg I (this name was 'invented' by Imperial Germany's propaganda in 1914 :) ) is described again - this time date and 'winner' is right, King 's name 'improved' and that's all what is OK in this 3 (again) sentences!!!
After this 'journey', I cannot trust anything in this book - for obvious reasons I believe...
I found exactly same absurd (as on page 187) in another 'source' - The Cabinet Cyclopaedia, Volume 28, published in 1831 in Chicago. Did J. Laffin used 150 years old popular encyclopedia as a source!? What is even more funny, I found a number of 'serious' websites repeating this 'information' in myriad variations :) Maybe it's time to send 'corrections' ? ;) (

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wojtek.uk | May 30, 2013 |

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Beginning with Megiddo, 1469 BC, the first recorded battle of history, and ending with the late-20th-century wars, this book covers conflicts on the sea, land and in the air. It contains details of over 7000 battles, campaigns and wars arranged alphabetically covering all famous and many less well-known encounters. As a further guide, major wars with their battles are listed chronologically at the front of the book.

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