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Battlefield Decisive Conflicts in History

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ISBN-10: 019280653X

ISBN-13: 9780192806536

Edition: 2006

Authors: Richard Holmes, Martin Marix Evans, Martin Marix Evans, Martin Marix Evans

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Salamis, Agincourt, Lepanto, Trafalgar, Gettysburg, Isandlwana, the Somme, Stalingrad -Battlefield tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history. It begins with the battle of Megiddo fought by the ancient Egyptians and takes the reader through to the Second Gulf war of 2003. On the way it encompasses almost 300 battles from around the world - from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, as well as from Europe and the Americas. Allthe battles are grouped within chapters which tell the wider story of a particular era or region, for instance the ancient world, or the Americas. And each chapter includes an introduction that sets out the historical,…    
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Book details

List price: $43.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/19/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 1.606

Preface
The Ancient World
Ancient Egypt
The Graeco-Persian Wars
The Peloponnesian War
Greek City-State Wars
The Campaigns of Alexander the Great
The Punic Wars
Macedonian Wars
Roman Civil Wars
Medieval Europe
The Late Roman Empire
The Carolingian Empire
Anglo-Saxon wars
The Crusades
Scots Wars of Independence
The Hundred Years War
The Wars of the Roses
The Renaissance to the French Revolution
Ottoman Wars
French Wars of Religion
The Thirty Years War
British Civil Wars
The League of Augsburg War
The War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Austrian Succession
The Seven Years War
The French Revolutionary Wars
Nineteenth-Century Europe
The Napoleonic Wars
Italian Independence Wars
The Crimean War
The Austro-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War
World War I
The Eastern Front
The Western Front
The Italian Front
The Middle East and Balkan Fronts
The German East African Campaign
The War at Sea
World War II
The European Theatre
The Eastern Front
North African Campaigns
The Pacific and Far Eastern Theatre
The Battle of the Atlantic
The Americas
The French and Indian War
The War of American Independence
Latin American Wars
The French Mexican Expedition
The American Civil War
The Plains Indians Wars
The Spanish-American War
The Falklands War
Asia and the Middle East
Islamic Wars
Japanese Wars
Europeans in India
The Sikh Wars
The Anglo-Afghan Wars
The Russo-Japanese War
The Korean War
The French Indochina Campaign
The Vietnam War
The Arab-Israeli Wars
The First Gulf War
The Second Gulf War
Africa
The French Conquest of Algeria
Abyssinian Wars
Egyptian and Sudanese Campaigns
The Zulu War
The Boer Wars
Further Reading
Index
Picture Acknowledgements