The Cambridge illustrated history of warfare
Subtitle: the triumph of the West
By: edited by Geoffrey Parker.
Contributors: Parker, Geoffrey, 1943-
Series: Cambridge illustrated histories
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780521738064
Subjects: Military art and science -- History; War and society; War -- Economic aspects; Civilization, Western
Other titles: Warfare
Notes: First published: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-422) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the western way of war / Geoffrey Parker; title: The age of massed infantry. Genesis of the infantry 600-350 BC / Victor Davis Hanson ; From phalanx to legion 350-250 BC / Victor Davis Hanson ; The Roman way of war 250 BC-AD 300 / Victor Davis Hanson; title: The age of stone fortifications. On Roman ramparts 300-1300 / Bernard S. Bachrach ; New weapons, new tactics 1300-1500 / Christopher Allmand ; The gunpowder revolution 1300-1500 / Geoffrey Parker; title: The age of guns and sails. Ships of the line 1500-1650 / Geoffrey Parker ; Conquest of the Americas 1500-1650 / Patricia Seed ; Dynastic war 1494-1660 / Geoffrey Parker ; States in conflict 1661-1763 / John A. Lynn ; Nations in arms 1763-1815 / John A. Lynn; title: The age of mechanized warfare. The industrialization of war 1815-71 / Williamson A. Murray ; Towards world war 1871-1914 / Williamson A. Murray ; The west at war 1914-18 / Williamson A. Murray ; The world in conflict 1919-41 / Williamson A. Murray ; The world at war 1941-45 / Williamson A. Murray ; The post-war world 1945-2007 / Williamson A. Murray and Geoffrey Parker; title: Epilogue : the future of western warfare / Geoffrey Parker.