Over 500 crucial battles from earliest times to contemporary guerrilla struggles are described in detail. Based on new research, each entry contains all relevant facts and figures. Not only are events and their participants provided, but the importance of the battle is also explained. Well organized and providing a rich mixture of chronologies, quotes, and biographies, Battles is both a supremely useful reference and an engrossing introduction to the details of military history. Historians, military buffs, writers, editors, and students will appreciate this handy, affordable resource.
- ISBN10 015600397X
- ISBN13 9780156003971
- Publish Date 15 March 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Thomson Learning
- Edition Harvest ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 210
- Language English