Book description
From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major
offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the
modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers
including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Charles Mey, John
Pimlott, and John Laffin.
All the major conflicts are covered, from two world wars,
through Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, Chechnya, to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Among the battles featured are: the Somme, Passchendaele, Battle
of Britain, Stalingrad, El Alamein, Monte Cassino, Omaha Beach, Iwa
Jima, Dien Bien Phu, Ia Drang, Hamburger Hill, Desert Storm, Kabul,
Baghdad, and Basra.
