The Mammoth Book Of Modern Battles

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Robinson
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 589 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers 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 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.

ISBN: 9781845298852