The Battle Book: Crucial Conflicts in History from 1469 BC to the Present

By Bryan Perrett

Book Overview

A reference which gives the statistics, tactics, purpose and outcome of more than 500 major land battles from the past 3,000 years of warfare, with all entries following a standard tabular layout for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1854091255
• ISBN13: 9781854091253
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Arms & Armour Press
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A nice quick reference

This is a nice quick reference for high-level, overviews of just about every major and some not-so-major known battles ever fought. The battles are listed in alphabetical order, however there are appendices in the back that group them by war and that list major commanders. This is a nice quick reference for military buffs and historians.

The quick and dirty details on almost any battle of history!

If your looking for quick details on almost any battle of history, then this is the book for you. The Date, location, war or campaign, opposing sides, number of troops engaged, and casualties of each conflict is given. On a good portion of the battles the author does give a short one or two paragraph summary of the battle. I found the book to be an excellent source for finding out information on specific battles of history.