# The Hinges of Battle

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- Authors: [Erik Durschmied](https://www.bookquiver.com/erik-durschmied)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2002-11-07

## Description

There is no shortage of stories when it comes to battles. Some were decided by genius, but many more by a quirk of fate, when that thin balance which separates success from disaster lay in a minor decision or a trivial incident that tipped the scales. The thrust of a spear, the blink of an eye, a single phrase or a misinterpreted command is all it takes. A moment of courage or cowardice, energy or weariness, resolution or indecision. Battles have shaped the course of history and decided the fate of mankind. From a brutal Attila the Hun who went down to defeat on the Catalaunian Fields, to an overbearing French artillery colonel at Dien Bien Phu; from the stout walls of Constantinople to a skimpy mealie-bag wall at Rorke's Drift; from the sun of Austerlitz to the snows of Stalingrad, it was always an incident that decided the outcome of battle.

## Editions

### The Hinges of Battle

- Publisher: Hodder Stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4476-968-5
- Published: 2014-03-06
- Language: en_GB

### The Hinges of Battle

- Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-03-4081-978-4
- Published: 2002-11-07
- Language: en_GB