The Harper encyclopedia of military history : from 3500 BC to the present
A classic compendium of and reference guide to the military history of the world - the wars, combat operations, and growth of military arts: tactics, strategy, and weaponry. New, updated, and revised to include new discoveries about the use of weapons in ancient China, upheavals in Lebanon, the winding down of the Soviet-Afghanistan war, the invasions of Grenada and Panama by U.S. forces, the war in the Persian Gulf, and the collapse of the Soviet and Eastern European Communist governments. -- Publisher description
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The dawn of military history: to 600 B.C
War becomes an art: 600-400 B.C
The era of the giants: 400-200 B.C
The rise of great empires in East and West: 200-1 B.C
The Pax Romana: A.D. 1-200
The decline of Rome and the rise of cavalry: 200-400
The opening of the Middle Ages: 400-600
The rise and containment of Islam: 600-800
The Dark Ages: battle-ax and mace: 800-1000
The return of skill to warfare: 1000-1200
The age of the Mongols: 1200-1400
The end of the Middle Ages: 1400-1500
Spanish square and ship-of-the-line: 1500-1600
The beginning of modern warfare: 1600-1700
The military supremacy of Europe: 1700-1750
The dominance of maneuver on land and sea: 1750-1800
The era of Napoleon: 1800-1850
The emergence of the professional: 1850-1900
World War I and the era of total war: 1900-1925
World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age: 1925-1945
Superpowers in the nuclear age: 1945-1975
Dominance of technology: 1975-1990
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