Wars that changed the world
By: Charles Messenger
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781847248305; 9781847241610
Subjects: War; History; Military art and science; War and civilization
Description: Examines the historical background and the diverse reasons for these conflicts.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Great Peloponnesian War: 431-404 BC; title: Alexander's conquests: 336-323 BC; title: Roman Civil War: 33-30 BC; title: Charles Martel's campaigns against the Moors: AD 739; title: The Seventh Crusade: 1248-54; title: The Ming overthrow of Mongol rule in China: 1351-88; title: Constantinople: 1453; title: Spanish conquest of Mexico: 1519-39; title: Babur's conquest of India: 1525-9; title: Japanese Civil Wars: 1560-90; title: The Thirty Years War: 1618-48; title: The Seven Years War: 1756-63; title: The American War of Independence: 1775-83; title: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: 1792-1815; title: Liberation campaigns of Bolivar and San Martin: 1813-25; title: The American Civil War: 1861-5; title: The Franco-Prussian War: 1870-1; title: The Russo-Japanese War: 1904-5; title: The First World War: 1914-18; title: The Second World War: 1939-45; title: The Chinese Civil War: 1945-9; title: The Cold War: 1948-89; title: Vietnam: 1946-75; title: The Six Day War: 1967; title: The War on Terror: 2001-?