Examines the historical background and the diverse reasons for these conflicts The Great Peloponnesian War: 431-404 BC | Alexander's conquests: 336-323 BC | Roman Civil War: 33-30 BC | Charles Martel's campaigns against the Moors: AD 739 | The Seventh Crusade: 1248-54 | The Ming overthrow of Mongol rule in China: 1351-88 | Constantinople: 1453 | Spanish conquest of Mexico: 1519-39 | Babur's co…
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, this fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded …
For more than a decade, this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all that has happened to the world's navies and their ships in the previous twelve months. It combines regional surveys with major articles on important new warships, and looks at wider issues of significance to navies such as aviation and weaponry. The contributors come from around the globe and as well as prov…
The only single-volume annual survey of naval developments.
"A newly revised edition of the Richard Crawley translation with maps, annotations, appendices, and encyclopedic index."
For many, the anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1940s has been lost in the dustbin of history - an era remembered, if at all, by fading photograpbs of Joe McCarthy, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and J. Edgar Hoover. Red Scare is a remarkable document of an era that altered forever the American political landscape, a time when one's beliefs and associations could lead to financial ruin and…