History has shown that every great general earned his reputation on the basis of one great victory. The Victors describes the 16 battles in which the 16 most famous generals in modern history made their reputations.

A Bison book. Includes index.

Napoleon at Austerlitz 1805 --Wellington at Waterloo 1815 -- Lee at Chancellorsville 1863 -- Grant at Vicksburg 1863 -- Von Moltke at Sedan 1870 -- Hindenburg at Tannenberg 1914 -- Joffre at the Marne 1914 -- Petain at Verdun 1916 -- Haig and the Black Day 1918 -- Guderian at the Meuse 1940 -- Rommel at Tobruk 1942 -- Montgomery at Alamein 1942 -- Patton at the bulge 1944 -- Zhukov at Berlin 1945 -- MacArthur at Inchon 1950.