An edition of The book of war
(2008)
The book of war
by Dwight Jon Zimmerman
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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.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Battle of Kadesh
Chariot
Siege of Troy
Battle of Marathon
Hoplite
Battle of Salamis
Sun Tzu
Battle of Gaugamela
Alexander III, the Great
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Battle of Cannae
Quintas Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
Fabian
Roman legion
Sword
Battle of Zama
Hannibal Barca
Siege of Carthage
Battle of Alesia
Gaius Julius Ceasar
Battle of Actium
Battle of Teutoburg Forest
Siege of Masada
Battle of Chalons
Sack of Rome
Battle of Badr
Battle of Tours
Alfred the Great
Viking longboat
Battle of Hastings
William I, the Conqueror
Siege of Antioch
Trebuchet
Siege of Jerusalem
Battle of Hattin
Saladin
Genghis Khan
Battle of Courtrai
Battle of Bannockburn
Battle of Crécy
Gunpowder
Bow
Battle of Agincourt
Halberd
Siege of Orleans
Joan of Arc
Fall of Tenochtitlan
Hernando Cortés
Battle of Panipat
Zahir ud-Din Muhammad Babur
Siege of Vienna
Suleiman I
Battle of Cajamarca
Stirrup
Francisco Pizarro
Siege of Kazan
Battle of Okehazama
Battle of Lepanto
Battle of Nagashino
Arquebus
Spanish armada
Battle of Sekigahara
Gustavus Adolphus
Battle of Rocroi
Battle of Blenheim
Fortifications
Sébastian Le Pestre de Vauban
Hermann Maurice
Battle of Leuthen
Frederick II, the Great
Battle of Plassey
Robert Clive
Brown Bess musket
Battle of Quebec
Invasion of Canada
Battle of Trenton
George Washington
Battle of Saratoga
Benedict Arnold
Siege of Yorktown
Battle of Valmy
Battle of Aboukir Bay
Napoleaon I
Battle of Austerlitz
Battle of Trafalgar
Horation Nelson
Battle of Friedland
Battle of Talavera
Battle of Borodino
Battle of Leipzig
Battle of Waterloo
Carl von Clausewitz
Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini
Battle of New Orleans
Rifle
Battle of Gqokli Hill
Shaka
Battle of Maipú
José de San Martín
Battle of Carabobo
Simón Bolívar
The Alamo
Battle of San Jacinto
Battle of Chapultepec
Siege of Fort Sumter
First Battle of Manassas
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
John Singleton Mosby
Guerilla
Battle of Fort Donelson
Ulysses S. Grant
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Antietam
Robert E. Lee
Telegraph
Battle of Hampton Roads
Ironclad warship
Containment
Battle of Chancellorsville
Siege of Vicksburg
Benjamin Henry Grierson
Batlle of Gettysburg
James Ewell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart
Battle of Mobile Bay
David Glasgow Farragut
Sherman's March to the Sea
William Tecumseh Sherman
First Battle of Sedan
Engines
Count Helmuth von Moltke
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Sitting Bull (Tatanka Yotanka)
Crazy Horse (Tashunca Uitco)
Battle of Rorke's Drift
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Siege of Khartoum
Wounded Knee
Battle of Tsushima
Heihachiro Togo
Dreadnought
Alfred Thayer Mahan
First Battle of the Marne
Battle of Tannenberg
Paul von Hindenburg
Erich Wilhelm Ludendorff
Battle of Gallipoli
Battle of the Somme
Barbed wire
Battle of Verdun
Attrition
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Passchendaele
Poison gas
Machine gun
Battle of Beersheba
Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby
Battle of Cambrai
Second Battle of the Marne
John Joseph Pershing
Battle of Megiddo
Battle of Khalkin Gol
Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
John Frederick Charles Fuller
Polish Campaign
Tank
Heinz Wilhelm Guderian
Indirect
George Catlett Marshall
Fall of France
Battle of Britain
Operation Barbarossa
Georgi Zhukov
Battle of Moscow
Pearl Harbor
Isoroku Yamamoto
Chester William Nimitz
Battle of the Atlantic
Submarine
Torpedo
Radar/sonar
Air Campaign over Germany
Airplane
Battle of Singapore
Doolittle Raid
William Frederick Halsey, Jr.
Battle of Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
Raymond Ames Spruance
Second Battle of El Alamein
Mines
Bernard Law Montgomery
Operation Torch
Dwight David Eisenhower
George S. Patton, Jr.
Guadalcanal
Battle of Stalingrad
Total warfare
Battle of Kasserine Pass
Battle of Tarawa
Battle of Kursk
Operation Husky
Sutjeska Offensive
Tito (Josef Broz)
Operation Avalanche
Battles of Monte Cassino
Battle of Anzio
Operation Overlord
Omar Nelson Bradley
Operation Cobra
Air Campaign over Japan
Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Douglas MacArthur
Battle of the Bulge
Battle for Berlin
Battle of Iwo Jima
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic bomb
Battle of Inchon
Siege of Dien Bien Phu
Suez Crisis
Moshe Dayan
Tonkin Gulf Incident
Six-Day War
Tet Offensive
Yom Kippur War
Operation Eagle Claw
Falklands War
Missiles and rockets
Operation Eager Anvil
Night vision device
Global positioning system
Battle of 73 Easting
H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
Armor
Plastic Explosives
First Battle of Mogadishu
Satellite
Map
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Anaconda
Radio
Battle of Debecka Pass.
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