The Mammoth Book of Battles: The Art and Science of Modern Warfare

Here are more than 40 gripping accounts of battles, described in detail by historians & writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Anthony Farrar-Hockley, John Pimlott, John Frost & John Laffin. Here are the great commanders of the 20th cent., the strategy & tactics, the victories & disasters of two world wars, as well as wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the Falklands & elsewhere. Here too are many insights into the art & science of generalship & military org. as they have evolved to meet the awesome scale & vicious destructive power of modern warfare, across battlefields ranging from Flanders to Kuwait, North Africa to the Russian steppes, & the jungles of Southeast Asia & the Pacific. New edition with 30 specially drawn military maps.