100 Turning Points in Military Histor..., Alan Axelrod
100 Turning Points in Military Histor..., Alan Axelrod
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100 Turning Points in Military History
The Critical Decisions, Key Events, and Breakthrough Inventions and Discoveries That Shaped Warfare around the World

Author: Alan Axelrod

Narrator: Marc Vietor

Unabridged: 14 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/18/2022


Synopsis

The typical military history presents a chronicle of battles and wars and the commanders and troops who fought them. This book takes a different approach. It presents battles and wars and people aplenty, but they are not its ultimate subjects. This book is about the turning points that not only make military history dynamic but crucial to the story of humanity and civilization. This book is about the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures that shaped the evolution of military art and science—strategy, tactics, and technology—and, in doing so, shaped the course of world history.Here are the 100 points—from the birth of warfare in the Battle of Megiddo, 1457 BC, to the ongoing evolution of military history on its newest battlefield, cyberspace—at which the path of the warrior decisively turned on its long journey to where we find ourselves today.

About Alan Axelrod

Alan Axelrod is the author of numerous books on history, business, and management. He has been a creative consultant to such television documentaries and series as The Wild West and Civil War Journal for the Discovery Channel. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

About Marc Vietor

Marc Vietor, an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an actor working with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Sundance Theatre Lab, Ravinia Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Old Globe, and many others. His film and television credits include Asylum Seekers, Law & Order, and Onion News Network. He has narrated many books for Audible.com, including the award-winning 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. He is a graduate of Yale University and The Juilliard School.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tony

Axelrod, as in his similar book on U.S. history, provides a handy survey that is nevertheless riddled with the absence of a historian’s necessary objective stance, and even more frequently guilty of failing to interpret imaginatively the links between events, and by choosing some “turning points” an......more

Goodreads review by Peter

A very useful book ,especially for the general reader like me,that covers all military history in short accessible chapters.A great book to dip into to learn or refresh your memory.......more

Goodreads review by Greg

Well written and interesting but tries to cover too many turning points. The book averages about 3 pages per turning point. Hard to do justice to these battles in 3 pages.......more