Product Description: A chronological, illustrated and condensed essence of 50 major battles that have changed the world during the past 5,000 years of recorded history. Contains over 50 maps, bibliography, battlefield associations and foreword by Earl H...read more

Product Description: Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed The World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of their relevance to the modern world, they range from the ancient past to the present day and span the globe many times over...read more

Presents a guide to international maritime history.

Presents a guide to international maritime history.

Product Description: Mrs Large's attempts to have five minutes' peace, her vain efforts to get out of the house in one piece for a night out, her absurd notion that elephants can diet and the farce of Mr Large's birthday, make this series a children's favourite.

Offers a historical retrospective on the most important battles of the past three thousand years, describing in detail one hundred key military campaigns, with commentary on the outcome of the conflict, who won and lost, the results of each war, and its impact on world history and culture, with a provocative afterword on the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Marathon, Cannae, Hattin, Blenheim, Waterloo and The Somme – the names of some battles do not fade with the passing of time. Battles that Changed History offers 47 key battles that altered the course of history. The book features many famous and decisive battles, such as Alesia (52 BC), where Gaius Julius Caesar’s Roman forces successfully besieged and defeated Vercingetorix’s larger Gaul army to seal the conquest of Gaul; Agincourt (1415), where the numerically superior and heavily armored French knights were defeated by English King Henry V’s smaller force of longbow men; the epic three-day battle of Gettysburg (1863), where General Lee’s Confederate invasion force suffered irreplaceable losses at the hands of General Meade’s Union forces; and the battle of Stalingrad (1942), where the Red Army repelled then encircled and annihilated the German Sixth Army, marking the turning point on the Eastern Front...read more

Product Description: In modern history, China has been primarily a land power, dominating smaller states along its massive continental flanks. But China's turn toward the sea is now very much a reality, as evident in its stunning rise in global shipbuilding markets, its vast and expanding merchant marine, the wide offshore reach of its energy and minerals exploration companies, its growing fishing fleet, and indeed its increasingly modern navy...read more

Product Description: Different aspects of medieval warfare form the focus for this collection of essays by both established and new scholars. They range from a reconsideration of several problems of military historiography to explorations of the medieval view of divine influence on the battlefield, and the emergence of complex strategic and tactical norms of naval warfare in the medieval Mediterranean...read more

Product Description: A collection of 14 true stories, taken from 400 years of war, of how crews and warships battled against overwhelming odds, only to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Examples include the sinking of armed raiders by a US merchant in 1942, and Japanese resistance off Bali in 1942...read more

Emphasizing their uncommon characters and personalities, the author reviews the careers of twenty-one outstanding naval commanders--ranging from Drake to Yamamoto and Spruance--within their historical and naval contexts

Product Description: An essential guide for all readers interested in high seas combat, this book covers the history of navies from the time of ancient Greek galleys to the development of battleships in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the present day...read more

Four young elephants help their parents get ready to go to a dinner dance.

Traces the development of naval vessels from the ancient Greeks to the present, and looks at submarines, guided missiles, battleships, aircraft carriers, and changes in naval tactics

Shares dramatic eyewitness accounts from more than 2,500 years of naval history, from the Battle of Salamis as recorded by Thucydides in 378 B.C., to the endeavors of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, to the carrier operations of the 1991 Gulf War. Original. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This collection of 16 essays provides an insight into the interrelationship between naval history and maritime strategy. It examines the intellectual history of its development, the use of history within navies as a means of understanding strategy, and the history of navies. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The classic study of war at sea and the objectives, efficacy, and limitations of sea power.

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