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"Discover the key themes and big ideas behind the key events in the history of warfare--from the dawn of civilization to the 21st century. Tracing the epic 5,000-year story of warfare from the earliest battles to the War on Terror, The Military History Book explores and explains the causes and consequences of each, offering a new angle on military history. Entries analyze the key social and political driving forces, the arms and armaments, and the technologies and tactics of war from 5,000 years ago to the present day--from the tactics of early infantry and siegecraft to the rise of naval combat steel, steam, and shellfire to trench warfare and aerial dogfights to chemical weapons and cyber warfare." -- Provided by the publisher.
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2025.
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- First American edition
- Physical Description
- 336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
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- 9780744048384
- Introduction, Ancient Warfare 3500 BCE-500CE
- Destroyer of the enemy land Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
- I besieged, I captured, and took away their spoil The Assyrian Empire
- I am Cyrus, king of the universe Persia
- A people of sailors Classical Greece
- War is a matter not so much of arms as of money The Peloponnesian Wars
- Hardship and danger are the price of glory The conquests of Alexander the Great
- Three grand new kingdoms… emerged Alexander's successors
- The elephants… numbered 9,000 The Mauryan Empire
- The wise warrior avoids the battle Origins of the Chinese Empire
- Planning should be secret, attack should be swift The Han Empire
- The might of Rome hath risen high as heaven The rise of Rome
- This lesson they… learned by experience The Punic Wars
- I came, I saw, I conquered Caesar and his legacy
- All roads lead to Rome The Roman Empire at its height
- Rome shall fall Barbarian migrations: the empire under threat
- War in the Middle Ages 500-1500
- The greatest of God's gifts to men… are priesthood and empire The Byzantine Empire
- A rain of their blood as an offering The Maya civilization
- Fight in the cause of Allah The r ise of Islam
- This king, the wisest and most high-minded The Empire of Charlemagne
- They ravage everything that does not oppose them Viking raids
- The duke… spared no opponent The Norman conquests
- The Way of the Samurai is found in death The rise of the samurai
- God wills it! The Crusades
- If God does not avert it… a schism will occur The Holy Roman Empire versus the papacy
- Never stop until your enemy is on his knees The Mongol invasions
- Forward, soldiers of Christ! The European Crusades
- A vast walled stronghold Zimbabwean kingdoms
- Fearing for their lives, they abandoned all else Timur's conquests
- Once more unto the breach, dear friends The Hundred Years' War
- Peace among Christians and war against the infidel The Spanish Reconquista
- A cannon, which no wall… could resist The rise of the Ottoman Turks
- The flowery death by the obsidian knife The Aztecs and Incas
- Early Modern Warfare 1500-1775
- Born to battle and the sword The Italian Wars
- Murderous and avaricious conquerors The European conquest of the Americas
- He has those captured in combat sold Warfare in northern Africa
- The germ of great disaster Japan in the Sengoku era
- An impassable wall The Ottoman Empire
- Christian and universal European wars of religion
- Peace with all Mughal conquests in India
- An army like a thick forest and flowing water The establishment of Manchu China
- Fear, trembling, and dread pervaded The Thirty Years' War
- I am the martyr of the people The British Civil Wars
- We have nothing but our lives to lose Warfare in North America
- Maintain as many troops as possible The wars of Louis XIV
- The unprecedented has happened The Great Northern War
- Treaties are only oaths of deception The war of the Austrian Succession
- If your number be small, march in a single file The French and Indian War
- An army in possession of a state The Seven Years' War
- The bow will be soon unstrung, and the war atan end The Ten Great Campaigns
- Revolutions And Empire 1775-1914
- Give me liberty, or give me death! The American Revolution
- A great wind is blowing The wars of Catherine the Great
- The just defense of a free people The wars of the French Revolution
- That synthesis of Monster and Superman Napoleon triumphant
- Horrors were punished by other horrors The Peninsular War
- The smell from the gunshot wounds Napoleon at bay
- Free trade and sailors' rights The War of 1812
- Long live freedom! Long live independence! The Spanish American wars of liberation
- Not all heroes are virtuous The American-Mexican wars
- These dying and exhausted men The Crimean War
- One flag, one dream The wars of Italian unification
- To lead the Fatherland on to a blessed future The rise of Prussia
- They… are afraid of our repeating rifles The American Civil War
- My people wish for peace The conquest of North America
- The great naval feat of the… ironclads The Paraguayan War
- India was the pivot of our Empire The British conquest of India
- The Scramble for Africa Imperial wars in Africa
- If we must perish, why not fight to the death? China in turmoil
- Russia would wipe us off the map Ottoman decline and Russian expansion
- Casualties of nearly 100,000 men The Second Boer War
- A new force has been born The Russo-Japanese War
- A war of liberation became… a war of extermination Conflict in the Balkans
- The World Wars and Beyond 1914-Present
- The rush to the abyss World War I: outbreak
- We cursed through sludge Stalemate on the Western Front
- One vast battlefield An expanding war
- An iron curtain has descended The Cold War
- The sky cannot have two suns The Chinese Civil War
- Our Big General… must be recalled The Korean War
- Raise aloft the banner of insurrection Independence in Southeast Asia
- A country free from foreign interference Revolution and counter revolution in Latin America
- We do not want somebody else's nationalism The African wars of independence
- Poverty continues to breed conflict Postcolonial Africa
- Enough of blood and tears. Enough The Arab-Israeli conflicts
- There was a good war… and a bad war Conflict in Afghanistan
- Deep attack and decisive manoeuver The Gulf Wars
- This conflagration will spread Post-communist wars
- Corruption is more dangerous than terrorism Conflict in Iraq
- The first drone war The Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Directory
- Index
- Quote Attributions
- Acknowledgments