Battle : a visual journey through 5,000 years of combat

9780756613600

First American edition

360 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm

Includes index

Warfare in the ancient world
Between history and legend
The might of Mesopotamia
Greek triumphs
Greek-Persian wars
Greek versus Greek
The conquests of Alexander
After Alexander
The conquests of the legions
Early Rome
The Punic wars
Imperial Rome
The shift to the East
Asian empires
Chinese warfare
Indian warfare
Warfare in the Middle Ages
Invaders and feudal Lords
Byzantium survives
Frankish power
Vikings and Northmen
Warriors of Islam
Arab advance
Islamic impact
The Crusades
The First and Second Crusades
Decline of the Crusades
The Spanish Reconquista
Mongol power
Conquests in Asia and Europe
Conquests of Timur
East Asian warfare
Kublai and the Ming
Southeast Asia
Samurai warfare
Knights, castles, and bowmen
Popes and emperors
Heresy and revolt
The Hundred Years War
Triumph of the infantry
Northern wars
Rise of the Ottomans
Early modern warfare
Islamic empires
Ottoman glory and decline
Mogul India
African empires
Power and religion
France's Italian wars
Wars on religion
The Thirty Years War
The English Civil War
Dynastic wars
The great Northern wars
Warfare in the Americas
Conquest of the Aztecs and Incas
Conflicts in North America
Japan, Korea, and China
Pacifying Japan
Korea resists Japan
Manchu Conquest
Empires and revolutions
The Seven Years War
The French and Indian War
War in Europe and India
The Revolutionary War
France : revolution to empire
French Revolutionary wars
Napoleon takes over
French supremacy
The Peninsular War
Napoleon vanquished
Napoleon's final defeat
Wars in the Americas
America fights Britain
Fighting American Indians
War in South America
Mexico at war
The Civil War
Imperial conflicts
British India
The conquest of Africa
Zulu wars
The Second Boer War
Wars of Imperial expansion
China, Japan, and Europe
China in turmoil
The rise of Japanese power
Nationalism and modernization
Italian unification
Rise of the German empire
The Crimean War and Russia in Asia
Ottoman decline and the Balkans
Era of world wars
World War I
1914
The Western Front 1915
1916-1917
Ottomans in World War I
The Eastern Front
1918
Between the wars
Russia and China at War
Spanish Civil War
Hitler's war
Blitzkrieg
War in the Mediterranean
War at sea
Invasion of the Soviet Union
Bomber offensive
Germany defeated in the West
Germany defeated in the East
The Pacific War
Japan's high tide
Fight back
Conflicts since 1945
The Chinese Civil War
The Korean War
Post-Colonial wars
The Vietnam War
Israel's wars
Guerrillas and terrorists
Wars since 1980

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