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Outnumbered: Incredible Stories of History’s Most Surprising Battlefield Upsets is awesomely illustrated with photographs, drawings, colorful maps, and reproductions of famous paintings (often highly romanticized) depicting fateful battles.
Love this passage from the author Cormac O’Brien:
“Those Frenchmen may well have smelled the English coming long before they saw them. Even as they were wracked by dysentery and deprived of proper food, Henry’s men had been ordered to remain in a state of readiness on the march for fear of imminent battle. This meant that men-at-arms accustomed to riding with their kit in tow now rode fully armored in the saddle for days – weeks – at a stretch, trapping their suffering bodies in a kind of prison. Under the rain, corrosion began to appear where normal care had become impossible, allowing rusty water to creep into clothes and over flesh that had grown mephitic from neglect. The stench must have been insufferable.”
I highly recommend the book and it’s well worth picking up and reading from cover to cover.
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