Provides accounts of fourteen significant military upsets from throughout history, and includes archival images.

Salamis, 480 BCE : Greek audacity and courage defy the world's greatest empire -- Issus, 333 BCE : Alexander the Great leads a martial storm into mighty Persia -- Cannae, 216 BCE : Hannibal's masterpiece thrashes Rome and creates a legend -- Carrhae, 53 BCE : Roman arms become trapped between the scorching sun and the wrath of Parthia -- Alesia, 52 BCE : Caesar shows his enemies the meaning of Roman tenacity -- Tricamarum, 533 : Byzantium's finest take on the Germanic corsairs of North Africa -- Agincourt, 1415 : French chivalry endures the flight of the Bodkins on St. Crispin's Day -- Narva, 1700 : a king's coming of age meets Sweden's finest hour -- Leuthen, 1757 : Frederick the Great steals victory from the jaws of defeat -- Auerstedt, 1806 : France's Iron Marshall avenges the disaster of Rossbach -- Chancellorsville, 1863 : Hooker came, he saw, he got conquered -- Rorke's Drift, 1879 : modern arms and raw nerve achieve the incredible -- Tannenberg, 1914 : Russia is impaled on the spike of the pickelhaube -- Singapore, 1942 : a brilliant Japanese gambit steals the Gibraltar of the East.