This is a magnificent and highly illustrated international survey of 52 of the worlds elite fighting forces crack units that have changed the course of battles and influenced the fates of entire nations. Each profile includes fact boxes featuring key battles and dates, together with quotations from contemporary sources. An unrivalled international team of military historians, including Andrew Lambert, Professor of the Department of War Studies, Kings College, London, and Peter H. Wilson, Grant Professor of History, University of Hull, ensures that this is the most authoritative and up-to-date account available.
- ISBN10 0500251762
- ISBN13 9780500251768
- Publish Date 28 March 2011
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 November 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English