The 100 Greatest Military Leaders in History

War is described by historians as humanity's second favorite occupation and undoubtedly plays a fundamental role in world history. From Leonidas of Sparta, the doomed hero of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, to Colin Powell, the strategist of the 1990 Gulf War, history's greatest military leaders are profiled and their most important battles analyzed. Whether defending their own lands or conquering those of others, the profiled leaders represent the height of military genius. Some of the selected military leaders are: Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Attila, El Cid, Oliver Cromwell, Charles Stuart, Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington, and Mao Zedong. In this book, Nigel Cawthorne builds on the tradition of the Top 100 Collection and presents the biographies of these figures in chronological order, all accompanied by photos or illustrations.