Undoubtedly the most famous work of military history of the nineteenth
century, Edward S. Creasy.s Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World has been
read and re-read for close to 150 years. It is not only the authoritative
account of each battle that makes Creasy.s work such a classic.it is his
command of narrative, his interest in human struggle, his profound
deductions as to effects of the battles, and his striving after truth.
Furthermore, his selections seem as wise and well-considered today as when
Fifteen Decisive Battles first appeared in 1851: Nobody since has made
better ones, nor given us better accounts. Apart from the scholarship and
literary skill of Creasy.s book, there is another reason it has endured:
Creasy was essentially fair-minded. He had been a judge, and when he became
England.s great military critic and historian, he maintained a thoroughly
judicial attitude. He was not a British partisan, nor French, nor German.he
was a cosmopolitan observer of great events.Out of 2300 years, Creasy only
found fifteen battles which he called decisive in the highest sense.
He chose them not for the number of killed and wounded, nor for their
status in myth and lore, but because they fundamentally changed the course
of world history. In doing so, he made his book a miniature military history
of the western world, a classic that will repay continued study for
generations to come, as it has for generations.

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