50 Battles That Changed the World: The Conflicts That Most Influenced the Course of History

Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World takes a brief look at the fifty battles the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of importance for our world today, they range from the ancient world to the present and span the globe to present the conflicts that truly changed the course of history. This is not a book so much about military strategy as about the implications of the battles that did the most to shape the world as we know it.