Examines the relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires Contents : - The rise of the western world - The Habsburg bid for mastery, 1519-1659 - Finance, geography, and the winning of wars, 1660-1815 - Industrialization and the shifting global balances, 1815-1885 - The coming of a bipolar world and the crisis of the "middle powers" : part one, 18…
Discusses the importance of sixteen famous battles including the Marne, Jutland, Cambrai, the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, Midway, Stalingrad, El alamein, Normandy, Chongchon, Dien Bien Phu, Tet, and the Yom Kipper War