Great battles
By: general editor, Christer Jorgensen
Publisher: Parragon Books
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781405486583; 9781405486576; 9781445411293; 9781445469232
Subjects: Military history; Battles; History
Other titles: Decisive conflicts that have shaped history
Description: "Decisive conflicts that have shaped history."--Cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The age of the sword.; title: Marathon, 490 BCE ;; title: Salamis, 480 BCE ;; title: Gaugamela, 331 BCE ;; title: Cannae, 216 BCE ;; title: Alesia, 52 BCE ;; title: Adrianople, CE 378 ;; title: Tours/Poitiers, CE 732 ;; title: Hastings, 1066 ;; title: Hattin, 1187 ;; title: Tannenberg, 1410 ;; title: Agincourt, 1415 --; title: The age of gunpowder.; title: Constantinople, 1453 ;; title: Lepanto, 1571 ;; title: The Great Armada, 1588 ;; title: Lutzen, 1632 ;; title: Blenheim, 1704 ;; title: Saratoga, 1777 ;; title: Trafalgar, 1805 ;; title: Austerlitz, 1805 ;; title: Waterloo, 1815 --; title: The age of the rifle.; title: Antietam, 1862 ;; title: Gettysburg, 1863 ;; title: Verdun, 1916 ;; title: The Somme, 1916 ;; title: The Battle of Britain, 1940 ;; title: Stalingrad, 1942 ;; title: Midway, 1942 ;; title: Normandy, 1944 ;; title: The Tet Offensive, 1968 ;; title: Operation "Iraqi Freedom," 2003.