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afghanistan war
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Baghdad
Basra
battle of britain
battle of the somme
bosnia
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Charles Mey
chechnya
Desert Storm
Dien Bien Phu
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greatest battles
Hamburger Hill
Ia Drang
iraq war
Iwa Jima
john keegan
John Laffin
John Pimlott
John Strawson
Kabul
korean war
military history
modern military history
Monte Cassino
Omaha Beach
passchendaele
passchendal
passchendale
sas
special air service
Stalingrad
vietnam war
who dares win
Product details
- ISBN 9781845298852
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 133 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 12 Mar 2009
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
JON E. LEWIS is an historian and author of numerous bestselling books on history and military history, including Voices from D-Day, Voices from the Holocaust, The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War and A Brief History of the First World War. He holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history and his work has appeared in New Statesman, the Independent, Time Out and the Guardian. He lives in Herefordshire.
