military history

On cover: The Great War--The Russian Revolution--The Middle East transformed --Japan's new horizons--America comes of age.

Provides an overview of the military exploits of twenty-five nations, tribes, or peoples from history, including the Angles, Huns, Magyars, Romans, Samurai, and Vikings.

History of armies and military science from ancient times to today.

An account of warfare in Europe and the Mediterranean from the time of Charlemange to the end of the Middle Ages.

A comprehensive, alphabetically-arranged resource that covers some of the most volatile civil wars around the globe since World War II, through a series of essays, detailed maps, tables, and chronologies.

Surveys the one hundred most decisive battles in world history from the Battle of Megiddo in 1469 B.C. to Desert Storm, 1991.

Contains over 1,800 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about more than 1,700 recorded wars around the world, including global conflicts, civil wars, mutinies, rebellions, and revolutions; covering a period that ranges from 2000 B.C. to the 1990s.

Contains over two hundred chronologically arranged entries on invasions and conquests spanning from the ancient world to the twentieth century, and includes twenty-three related readings and an entry time line.