Ultimate Deathmatch · Skull-Crushing True Stories of the Most Hardcore Duels, Showdowns, Fistfights, Last Stands, Suicide Charges, and Military Engagements of All Time by Thompson, Ben -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Dedication Contents Author’s Note Introduction: The Fundamentals of a Badass Battle Section I: Ancient Battles

1. Fear the Camel (547 BC) 2. The Battle of Salamis (480 BC) 3. The Sacred Band of Thebes (371 BC) 4. The Second Punic War (218–201 BC) 5. The Teutoberg Forest (AD 9) 6. Boudicca’s Revolt (AD 61) 7. Red Cliff (AD 208) 8. Ad Decimum (AD 533)

Section II: Medieval Carnage

9. The Last Caliph (AD 763) 10. The Great Heathen Army (AD 865–873) 11. The Third Crusade (1189–1192) 12. Kono Michiari (1281) 13. Alba Gu Bràth (1303–1314) 14. Trial by Combat (1389) 15. The Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) 16. The Fall of Constantinople (1453)

Section III: Gunpowder-Era Destruction

17. The Araucanian War (1541–1724) 18. The Imjin War (1592–1598) 19. James Macrae (1720) 20. The Rani of Jhansi (1857–1858) 21. Gettysburg (1863) 22. Samurai Showdown (1864) 23. Von Bredow’s Death Ride (1870) 24. Rorke’s Drift (1879)

Section IV: Industrial-Age Mayhem

25. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1881) 26. The Twenty-one Sikhs (1897) 27. The Charge of the Australian Light Horse (1917) 28. Their Finest Hour (1940) 29. Pavlov’s House (1942) 30. Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors (1944) 31. A Bridge Too Far (1944) 32. The Fastest Tommy Gun on the Western Front (1945)

Section V: Modern Warfare

33. The Chosin Few (1950) 34. Tango Mike-Mike (1968) 35. Zvika Force (1973) 36. The Lion of Panjshir (1979–1989) 37. Who Dares Wins (1980) 38. Desert Storm (1991) 39. Shootout at a Mexican Hacienda (2010) 40. Bishnu Shrestha and the Forty Thieves (2010)

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