Overview
From the massacre at Wounded Knee to the high-tech victory of Operation Desert Storm, this book presents forty gripping accounts of the battles that made the modern world. They are rendered in superb detail and analysis by such award-winning historians as John Keegan, Alan Clark, and Paul Kennedy. Here are the great conflicts of the two World Wars, the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the Falklands, and Israel. The Mammoth Book of Battles brings to life for all military historians the awesome scale and destructive power of modern warfare.
From the massacre at Wounded Knee to the high-tech victory of Operation Desert Storm, this book presents 40 gripping accounts of the battles that made the modern world. Here are the great commanders of the 20th century, their strategies and tactics, their victories and defeats, spanning two world wars, the wars in Korea, Vietnam and Israel, by award-winning historians.