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History's great military blunders and the lessons they teach / Professor Gregory S. Aldrete.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSeries: Great courses (DVD). Modern history.Publisher: [Chantilly, Va.] : Teaching Company, 2015Copyright date: �2015Description: 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (v, 176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 1629972088
  • 9781629972084
Subject(s):
Contents:
Disc 1: Petersburg: Union digs its own grave,1864 ; Syracuse: Athens's second front, 413 B.C. ; Carrhae: The Parthian shot, 53 B.C. ; Red Cliffs: Cao Cao's bad day, 208 A.D. ; Barbarian Gate: Adrianople, 378, Pliska-811 ; Fourth Crusade: Byzantium betrayed, 1204 -- disc 2: Kalka River: Genghis Khan's general, 1223 ; Courtrai: knights versus shopkeepers, 1302 ; Nagashino: taking swords to a gunfight, 1575 ; Cartagena: high walls, short ladders, 1741 ; Culloden: the Bonnie Prince Blunders, 1746 ; Russia: Napoleon retreats in the snow, 1812 -- disc 3: Afghanistan: Khyber Pass death trap, 1842 ; Crimea: Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 ; Greasy Grass: Custer's last stand, 1876 ; Isandlwana: 25,000 Zulus undetected, 1879 ; Adwa: Italy's fiasco in Ethiopia, 1896 ; Colenso: The second Boer War, 1899 -- disc 4: Tannenberg: ineptitude in the East, 1914 ; Gallipoli: Churchill dooms Allied assault, 1915 ; World War II: Royal Navy goes down, 1941-42 ; Dieppe Raid: catastrophe on the beach, 1942 ; Operation Market Garden" a bridge too far, 1944 ; The great blunder: four paths to failure.
Lecturer: Professor Gregory S. Aldrete, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
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Course No. 3761.

The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures.

Disc 1: Petersburg: Union digs its own grave,1864 ; Syracuse: Athens's second front, 413 B.C. ; Carrhae: The Parthian shot, 53 B.C. ; Red Cliffs: Cao Cao's bad day, 208 A.D. ; Barbarian Gate: Adrianople, 378, Pliska-811 ; Fourth Crusade: Byzantium betrayed, 1204 -- disc 2: Kalka River: Genghis Khan's general, 1223 ; Courtrai: knights versus shopkeepers, 1302 ; Nagashino: taking swords to a gunfight, 1575 ; Cartagena: high walls, short ladders, 1741 ; Culloden: the Bonnie Prince Blunders, 1746 ; Russia: Napoleon retreats in the snow, 1812 -- disc 3: Afghanistan: Khyber Pass death trap, 1842 ; Crimea: Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 ; Greasy Grass: Custer's last stand, 1876 ; Isandlwana: 25,000 Zulus undetected, 1879 ; Adwa: Italy's fiasco in Ethiopia, 1896 ; Colenso: The second Boer War, 1899 -- disc 4: Tannenberg: ineptitude in the East, 1914 ; Gallipoli: Churchill dooms Allied assault, 1915 ; World War II: Royal Navy goes down, 1941-42 ; Dieppe Raid: catastrophe on the beach, 1942 ; Operation Market Garden" a bridge too far, 1944 ; The great blunder: four paths to failure.

Lecturer: Professor Gregory S. Aldrete, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

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Set includes: 4 DVDs, 1 book.

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