Includes maps of: Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, 1854; Battle of Antietam: the Situation at Nightfall on 17 SEP 1862; Battle of Spion Kop, 1900; Battle of Colenso, 1899; Battle of the Somme, 1916: First-day Objectives; Operation Market Garden, 1944; Last Stand of the 51st (Highland) Division at St Valery-en-Caux, 1940; German Advance to Stalingrad in 1942 and the Russian Counter-Offensive; Battle for Darwin and Goose Green, the Falkland Islands, 1982; Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876; Yalu River: the Chinese Intervention and the US Retreat in Korea, 1950-51; Battle of Crecy, 1346; Battle of Caporetto and the Italian Collapse, 1917; Crete, 1941: Allied Forces in Western Crete Before the German Invasion; Battle of Kasserine, 1943.

UNFIT TO COMMAND: Elphey Bey and the retreat from Kabul -- Lord Reglan and the charge of the Light Brigade -- McClellan at Antietam -- General Warren and the Battle of Spion Kop -- General Stopford at Suvla Bay -- General Percival and the fall of Singapore -- PLANNING FOR TROUBLE: The Jameson Raid -- Colenso -- The first day of the Somme -- The Dieppe Raid -- Arnhem -- Bravo Two Zero -- MEDDLING MINISTERS: Bannockburn -- Sedan - St. Valery -- North Africa, 1940-1 -- Stalingrad -- Goose Green -- MISPLACED CONFIDENCE: Teutoburger Wald -- The Second Crusade -- Custer's last stand -- Isandhlwana -- Yalu River -- Dien Bien Phu -- A FAILURE TO PERFORM: Crecy -- Caporetto -- The Kaiser's battle -- Anual -- Crete -- Kasserine Pass.