A guide to battles: decisive conflicts in history
- Title
- A guide to battles: decisive conflicts in history / edited by Richard Holmes and Martin Marix Evans.
- Published by
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- ©2009
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- Description
- viii, 429 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm.
- Summary
- This book tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history, from Agincourt, Lepanto, and Trafalgar, to Gettysburg, Stalingrad, and the Somme. It begins with the battle of Megiddo fought by the ancient Egyptians and takes the reader through to the Second Gulf War of 2003. On the way it encompasses almost 300 battles from around the world - from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, to Europe and the Americas.
- Series statement
- The Oxford reference collection
- Uniform title
- Oxford reference collection
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- "Reissued in Oxford Reference Collection."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-413) and index.