An Encyclopedia of Battles: Accounts of Over 1,560 Battles from 1479 B.C. to the PresentCourier Corporation, 1 janv. 1985 - 533 pages Megiddo, Thermopylae, Waterloo, Stalingrad, Vietnam...nothing has dominated man's attention, challenged his energy, produced more heroes - and destruction - than war. This monumental one-volume work traces the long history of that uniquely human activity in vivid, accurate accounts of over 1,500 crucial military conflicts. Spanning more than 3,400 years, it encompasses a panorama of warfare so complete that no single volume like it exists. |
Table des matières
An Encyclopedia of Battles | 1 |
Appendix 19671984 | 491 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 495 |
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