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All About History Book Of Greatest Battles

13rd Edition
Magazine

Much of history is determined by victories and defeats in battle. Examine the tactics and strategies that shaped the world’s most significant campaigns through detailed battle maps, diagrams and poignant images. In this new edition, understand what factors contributed to the outcomes and uncover how such events have shaped the identity of societies across the globe. Featuring: History’s bloodiest battles - Understand some of the world’s most influential and devastating battles. Commemorate the Somme - Remember a defining battle of the Great War on its 100th anniversary. Examine battle maps - Picture tactics and strategies that decided the fate of significant battles. Spain: the rise and fall of a superpower - Follow the tumultuous journey of one nation’s position on the world stage.

ALL ABOUT HISTORY GREATEST BATTLES

All About History Book Of Greatest Battles

10 HISTORY’S BLOODIEST BATTLES • Discover the death and destruction of warfare, from bitter ancient feuds to the modern world’s bloodiest conflicts

BATTLE OF ISSUS

BATTLE OF MALPLAQUET

BATTLE OF TOWTON

SIEGE OF BAGHDAD

BATTLE OF RED CLIFFS

BATTLE OF LEIPZIG

BATTLE OF SALSU

BATTLE OF THE SOMME

BATTLE OF CANNAE

BATTLE OF STALINGRAD

BATTLE OF MARATHON • MARATHON, GREECE SEPTEMBER 490 BCE

BATTLE OF THERMOPYLAE • THERMOPYLAE, GREECE 480 BCE

BATTLE OF ACTIUM • IONIAN SEA 2 SEPTEMBER 31 BCE

BATTLE OF HASTINGS • HASTINGS, ENGLAND 14 OCTOBER 1066

BATTLE OF STIRLING BRIDGE • STIRLING, SCOTLAND 11 SEPTEMBER 1297

Weapons used to inflict death and destruction

A nation divided • A selection of Scotland’s most important clans

Three reasons for war

Scotland’s long journey to Stirling Bridge

Essential Wallace figures

BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN • SOUTHEAST SCOTLAND, 23-24 JUNE 1314

BATTLE OF AGINCOURT • AGINCOURT, FRANCE 25 OCTOBER 1415

BATTLE OF BOSWORTH • BOSWORTH, ENGLAND 22 AUGUST 1485

BATTLE OF SEKIGAHARA • SEKIGAHARA, JAPAN 21 OCTOBER 1600

BATTLE OF NASEBY • VILLAGE OF NASEBY, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE SATURDAY 14 JUNE 1645

BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR • OFF THE COAST OF TRAFALGAR, SOUTH-WEST SPAIN 21 OCTOBER 1805

BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ • AUSTERLITZ, MORAVIA 2 DECEMBER 1805

BATTLE OF BORODINO • RUSSIA 7 SEPTEMBER 1812

BATTLE OF WATERLOO • WATERLOO, BELGIUM 18 JUNE 1815

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG • PENNSYLVANIA, USA 1-3 JULY 1863

BATTLE OF RORKE’S DRIFT • ZULU KINGDOM, SOUTH AFRICA 22 JANUARY 1879

BATTLE OF THE SOMME • NORTHERN FRANCE 1 JULY – 18 NOVEMBER 1916

BATTLE OF CAMBRAI • CAMBRAI, NORTHERN FRANCE NOVEMBER 1917

HITLER VERSUS STALIN: OPERATION BARBAROSSA • EASTERN AND NORTHERN EUROPE, 22 JUNE – 5 DECEMBER 1941

FROM THE BALTIC TO THE BLACK SEA

THE BLOODY PURSUIT OF LEBENSRAUM • How the Ostheer blazed a trail through the plains and cities of eastern Europe

HITLER’S ARMOURED STORM

THE HOLOCAUST IN THE EAST

RED ARMY WORKHORSE • The Soviet T-34 is thought to be themost formidable tank of World War II

THE ADVANCE FALTERS

OPERATION TYPHOON

GENERAL FROST

THE LAKE LADOGA LIFELINE

WHY HITLER LOST

THE SHEER SCALE OF OPERATION BARBAROSSA

DIEPPE RAID • DIEPPE, FRANCE 19 AUGUST 1942

The Daimler Dingo

D-DAY LANDINGS • NORMANDY, FRANCE 6 JUNE 1944

THE LANDINGS

FOOLING HITLER

GERMAN DEFENCES

D-DATA

15 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT D-DAY

BATTLE OF IWO JIMA • IWO JIMA 19 FEBRUARY – 26 MARCH 1945

BATTLE OF HUE • NORTHERN SOUTH VIETNAM 31 JANUARY 1968 – 24 FEBRUARY 1968

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