The book of war
By: Dwight Jon Zimmerman
Publisher: Tess
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781603760379; 9781603760959
Subjects: War; History; Battles; Military art and science; Military history; Naval history
Description: Throughout human history, violent conflict has been a fact of life. To know the history of war is to know human history. The Book of War recounts landmark battles that shaped civilizations from 1274 B.C. up to the present day. Organized chronologically, this fascinating survey details pivotal military events from early empires through to modern warfare. It also reveals their immediate impact and importance to history. Each entry spans two pages, with concise text and stunning images for each battle. Interspersed thoughout the book are essays on innovations, strategies, or leaders that have changed the way war has been waged.--Dust cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Battle of Kadesh; title: Chariot; title: Siege of Troy; title: Battle of Marathon; title: Hoplite; title: Battle of Salamis; title: Sun Tzu; title: Battle of Gaugamela; title: Alexander III, the Great; title: Pyrrhus of Epirus; title: Battle of Cannae; title: Quintas Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; title: Fabian; title: Roman legion; title: Sword; title: Battle of Zama; title: Hannibal Barca; title: Siege of Carthage; title: Battle of Alesia; title: Gaius Julius Ceasar; title: Battle of Actium; title: Battle of Teutoburg Forest; title: Siege of Masada; title: Battle of Chalons; title: Sack of Rome; title: Battle of Badr; title: Battle of Tours; title: Alfred the Great; title: Viking longboat; title: Battle of Hastings; title: William I, the Conqueror; title: Siege of Antioch; title: Trebuchet; title: Siege of Jerusalem; title: Battle of Hattin; title: Saladin; title: Genghis Khan; title: Battle of Courtrai; title: Battle of Bannockburn; title: Battle of Crécy; title: Gunpowder; title: Bow; title: Battle of Agincourt; title: Halberd; title: Siege of Orleans; title: Joan of Arc; title: Fall of Tenochtitlan; title: Hernando Cortés; title: Battle of Panipat; title: Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur; title: Siege of Vienna; title: Suleiman I; title: Battle of Cajamarca; title: Stirrup; title: Francisco Pizarro; title: Siege of Kazan; title: Battle of Okehazama; title: Battle of Lepanto; title: Battle of Nagashino; title: Arquebus; title: Spanish armada; title: Battle of Sekigahara; title: Gustavus Adolphus; title: Battle of Rocroi; title: Battle of Blenheim; title: Fortifications; title: Sébastian Le Pestre de Vauban; title: Hermann Maurice; title: Battle of Leuthen; title: Frederick II, the Great; title: Battle of Plassey; title: Robert Clive; title: Brown Bess musket; title: Battle of Quebec; title: Invasion of Canada; title: Battle of Trenton; title: George Washington; title: Battle of Saratoga; title: Benedict Arnold; title: Siege of Yorktown; title: Battle of Valmy; title: Battle of Aboukir Bay; title: Napoleaon I; title: Battle of Austerlitz; title: Battle of Trafalgar; title: Horation Nelson; title: Battle of Friedland; title: Battle of Talavera; title: Battle of Borodino; title: Battle of Leipzig; title: Battle of Waterloo; title: Carl von Clausewitz; title: Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini; title: Battle of New Orleans; title: Rifle; title: Battle of Gqokli Hill; title: Shaka; title: Battle of Maipú; title: José de San Martín; title: Battle of Carabobo; title: Simón Bolívar; title: The Alamo; title: Battle of San Jacinto; title: Battle of Chapultepec; title: Siege of Fort Sumter; title: First Battle of Manassas; title: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson; title: John Singleton Mosby; title: Guerilla; title: Battle of Fort Donelson; title: Ulysses S. Grant; title: Nathan Bedford Forrest; title: Battle of Shiloh; title: Battle of Antietam; title: Robert E. Lee; title: Telegraph; title: Battle of Hampton Roads; title: Ironclad warship; title: Containment; title: Battle of Chancellorsville; title: Siege of Vicksburg; title: Benjamin Henry Grierson; title: Batlle of Gettysburg; title: James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart; title: Battle of Mobile Bay; title: David Glasgow Farragut; title: Sherman's March to the Sea; title: William Tecumseh Sherman; title: First Battle of Sedan; title: Engines; title: Count Helmuth von Moltke; title: Battle of the Little Bighorn; title: Sitting Bull (Tatanka Yotanka); title: Crazy Horse (Tashunca Uitco); title: Battle of Rorke's Drift; title: Giuseppe Garibaldi; title: Siege of Khartoum; title: Wounded Knee; title: Battle of Tsushima; title: Heihachiro Togo; title: Dreadnought; title: Alfred Thayer Mahan; title: First Battle of the Marne; title: Battle of Tannenberg; title: Paul von Hindenburg; title: Erich Wilhelm Ludendorff; title: Battle of Gallipoli; title: Battle of the Somme; title: Barbed wire; title: Battle of Verdun; title: Attrition; title: Battle of Jutland; title: Battle of Passchendaele; title: Poison gas; title: Machine gun; title: Battle of Beersheba; title: Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby; title: Battle of Cambrai; title: Second Battle of the Marne; title: John Joseph Pershing; title: Battle of Megiddo; title: Battle of Khalkin Gol; title: Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart; title: John Frederick Charles Fuller; title: Polish Campaign; title: Tank; title: Heinz Wilhelm Guderian; title: Indirect; title: George Catlett Marshall; title: Fall of France; title: Battle of Britain; title: Operation Barbarossa; title: Georgi Zhukov; title: Battle of Moscow; title: Pearl Harbor; title: Isoroku Yamamoto; title: Chester William Nimitz; title: Battle of the Atlantic; title: Submarine; title: Torpedo; title: Radar/sonar; title: Air Campaign over Germany; title: Airplane; title: Battle of Singapore; title: Doolittle Raid; title: William Frederick Halsey, Jr.; title: Battle of Coral Sea; title: Battle of Midway; title: Raymond Ames Spruance; title: Second Battle of El Alamein; title: Mines; title: Bernard Law Montgomery; title: Operation Torch; title: Dwight David Eisenhower; title: George S. Patton, Jr.; title: Guadalcanal; title: Battle of Stalingrad; title: Total warfare; title: Battle of Kasserine Pass; title: Battle of Tarawa; title: Battle of Kursk; title: Operation Husky; title: Sutjeska Offensive; title: Tito (Josef Broz); title: Operation Avalanche; title: Battles of Monte Cassino; title: Battle of Anzio; title: Operation Overlord; title: Omar Nelson Bradley; title: Operation Cobra; title: Air Campaign over Japan; title: Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold; title: Battle of Leyte Gulf; title: Douglas MacArthur; title: Battle of the Bulge; title: Battle for Berlin; title: Battle of Iwo Jima; title: Hiroshima and Nagasaki; title: Atomic bomb; title: Battle of Inchon; title: Siege of Dien Bien Phu; title: Suez Crisis; title: Moshe Dayan; title: Tonkin Gulf Incident; title: Six-Day War; title: Tet Offensive; title: Yom Kippur War; title: Operation Eagle Claw; title: Falklands War; title: Missiles and rockets; title: Operation Eager Anvil; title: Night vision device; title: Global positioning system; title: Battle of 73 Easting; title: H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.; title: Armor; title: Plastic Explosives; title: First Battle of Mogadishu; title: Satellite; title: Map; title: Operation Enduring Freedom; title: Operation Anaconda; title: Radio; title: Battle of Debecka Pass.