SEVENTY GREAT BATTLES OF ALL TIME

TWENTY-FIVE MILITARY HISTORIANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD DESCRIBE THE DECISIVE CONFLICTS THAT SHAPED HISTORY FROM THE FIFTH CENTURY BC TO THE PRESENT.
CANNAE AND AGINCOURT, WATERLOO AND GETTYSBURG, STALINGRAD AND MIDWAY, THE TET OFFENSIVE....THE LATEST BOOK IN THE POPULAR SEVENTIES SERIES ASSESSES THE GREAT BATTLES AND CONFLICTS IN HISTORY FROM THE PAST TWENTY-FIVE CENTURIES, AND DISCUSSES THE EFFECTS THEY HAVE HAD ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATES AND CIVILIZATIONS.
ORGANIZED CHRONOLOGICALLY INTO SEVEN PARTS, THE BOOK ENCOMPASSES THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WORLDS AS WELL AS THE WARS OF THE PAST HUNDRED YEARS, INCLUDING THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ. THE CONTRIBUTORS ANALYZE NOT JUST THE GREATEST LAND BATTLES OF ALL TIME, BUT SIEGES SUCH AS CONSTANTINOPLE (1453) AND TENOCHTITLAN (1521); NAVAL BATTLES SUCH AS ACTIUM (31 BC), TRAFALGAR (1805), AND TSUSHIMA (1905); AND THE CRUCIAL CONFLICTS IN THE AIR DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN (1940) AND THE AMERICAN ATTACK ON JAPAN (1945).
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