Ebook: The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles

Cover; Author biography; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Maps; List of Maps; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Introduction; 1 THE BOER WAR; Spion Kop (1900) Howard Green; 2 THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR; Tsushima (1905) C.P. Campbell; 3 THE FIRST WORLD WAR; The Marne (1914) Robert B. Asprey; Gallipoli (1915) Nigel Bagnall; Suez (1915) Anthony Burton; Verdun (1916) Brenda Ralph Lewis; Vimy Ridge (1917) Brenda Ralph Lewis; Passchendaele (1917) Hubert Essame; Cambrai (1917) Bryan Cooper; Megiddo (1918) Basil Liddell Hart; 4 ASIAN INCIDENTS; Khalkhin-Gol (1939) Alan Lothian.;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 Sto.