The Mammoth Book of Battles

by Lewis, Jon E.

• ISBN13: 9780786706891
• ISBN10: 0786706899
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-03
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

From the massacre at Wounded Knee to the high-tech victory of Operation Desert Storm, this book presents forty gripping accounts of the battles that made the modern world. They are rendered in superb detail and analysis by such award-winning historians as John Keegan, Alan Clark, and Paul Kennedy. Here are the great conflicts of the two World Wars, the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the Falklands, and Israel. The Mammoth Book of Battles brings to life for all military historians the awesome scale and destructive power of modern warfare.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	vii	(2)
Acknowledgements	ix	(2)
Introduction	xi
1 THE BOER WAR	1	(18)
The Relief of Ladysmith (1900)	3	(16)
Howard Green
2 THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR	19	(12)
Tsushima (1905)	21	(10)
C. P. Campbell
3 THE FIRST WORLD WAR	31	(88)
Nun's Wood (1914)	33	(10)
Peter Banyard
Gallipoli (1915)	43	(14)
Nigel Bagnall
Suez (1915)	57	(8)
Anthony Burton
Verdun (1916)	65	(12)
Brenda Ralph Lewis
The Somme (1916)	77	(10)
Ernest Shephard
Vimy Ridge (1917)	87	(11)
Brenda Ralph Lewis
Passchendaele (1917)	98	(11)
Hubert Essame
Cambrai (1917)	109	(10)
Bryan Cooper
4 ASIAN INCIDENTS	119	(24)
Shanghai (1937)	121	(11)
Michael Calvert
Khalkhin-Gol (1939)	132	(11)
Alan Lothian
5 THE SECOND WORLD WAR	143	(258)
River Plate (1939)	145	(11)
David Thomas
Battle of Britain (1940)	156	(15)
Christopher Dowling
Keren (1941)	171	(12)
John Strawson
Kiev (1941)	183	(12)
John Strawson
Leningrad (1941)	195	(11)
Alan Clark
Pearl Harbor (1941)	206	(8)
Paul Hutchinson
Singapore (1942)	214	(7)
C. C. M. Macleod-Carey
Santa Cruz (1942)	221	(12)
Michael Orr
Kokoda Trail (1942)	233	(10)
John Laffin
Stalingrad (1942)	243	(11)
Peter Young
El Alamein (1942)	254	(16)
J. F. C. Fuller
Bou Arada (1943)	270	(10)
Donald Gurrey
Kursk (1943)	280	(14)
Alan Wykes
Sicily (1943)	294	(13)
Hubert Essame
Admin Box (1944)	307	(11)
Patrick Turnbull
Anzio (1944)	318	(13)
John Keegan
Monte Cassino (1944)	331	(10)
E. D. Smith
Omaha Beach (1944)	341	(18)
Nigel Bagnall
Aachen (1944)	359	(11)
Hubert Essame
Ardennes (1944)	370	(6)
Peter Young
Berlin (1945)	376	(12)
John Strawson
Iwo Jima (1945)	388	(13)
Paul M. Kennedy
6 THE KOREAN WAR	401	(30)
Inchon (1950)	403	(8)
Sydney L. Mayer
Imjin River (1951)	411	(20)
A. H. Farrar-Hockley
E. L. Capel
7 VIETNAM	431	(26)
Dien Bien Phy (1953)	433	(11)
Charles Mey
Ia Drang (1965)	444	(7)
Ian Westwell
Hamburger Hill (1969)	451	(6)
John Pimlott
8 THE SIX-DAY WAR	457	(10)
Jerusalem (1967)	459	(8)
Ashley Brown
9 THE FALKLANDS WAR	467	(20)
Wireless Ridge (1982)	469	(18)
John Frost
10 THE PERSIAN GULF WAR	487
Desert Storm (1991)	489
Jon E. Lewis