| Description |
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (v, 176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm). |
| Series |
Great courses. History. Military.
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| Note |
Course No. 3761. |
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The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: 1. Petersburg: Union digs its own grave,1864 -- 2. Syracuse: Athens's second front, 413 B.C. -- 3. Carrhae: The Parthian shot, 53 B.C. -- 4. Red Cliffs: Cao Cao's bad day, 208 A.D. -- 5. Barbarian Gate: Adrianople, 378, Pliska-811 -- 6. Fourth Crusade: Byzantium betrayed, 1204 -- disc 2: 7. Kalka River: Genghis Khan's general, 1223 -- 8. Courtrai: knights versus shopkeepers, 1302 -- 9. Nagashino: taking swords to a gunfight, 1575 -- 10. Cartagena: high walls, short ladders, 1741 -- 11. Culloden: the Bonnie Prince Blunders, 1746 -- 12. Russia: Napoleon retreats in the snow, 1812 -- disc 3: 13. Afghanistan: Khyber Pass death trap, 1842 -- 14. Crimea: Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 -- 15. Greasy Grass: Custer's last stand, 1876 -- 16. Isandlwana: 25,000 Zulus undetected, 1879 -- 17. Adwa: Italy's fiasco in Ethiopia, 1896 -- 18. Colenso: The second Boer War, 1899 -- disc 4: 19. Tannenberg: ineptitude in the East, 1914 -- 20. Gallipoli: Churchill dooms Allied assault, 1915 -- 21. World War II: Royal Navy goes down, 1941-42 -- 22. Dieppe Raid: catastrophe on the beach, 1942 -- 23. Operation Market Garden" a bridge too far, 1944 -- 24. The great blunder: four paths to failure. |
| Performer |
Lecturer: Professor Gregory S. Aldrete, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Subject |
Battles -- Videodiscs.
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Military history -- Videodiscs.
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World history -- Videodiscs.
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Battles. |
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Military history. |
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World history. |
| Genre |
Educational films.
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Filmed lectures.
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Instructional films.
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Filmed lectures.
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Educational films.
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Instructional films.
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DVD-video discs.
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| Added Author |
Aldrete, Gregory S., author, speaker.
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Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1629972088 |
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9781629972084 |
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