Land battles: The men, the weapons and the tactics of the great Battles
Victory and disaster, heroism and foolhardiness, strategic genius and wasteful slaughter The Pictorial History of Land Battles gives you a complete picture of war on land through full accounts of some of the most important battles of all time.
From picture-packed pages you'll learn about the tactics of the great generals, the weapons that altered the course of war and the fighting qualities of the common soldier.
Dozens of illustrations and action photos, many in full colour, maps and technical diagrams, an informative and highly-readable text make The Pictorial History of Land Battles an exciting introduction to the history of warfare and a must for every enthusiast's bookshelf.
Hitler and the Battle of Stalingrad
★Patton in the Battle of the Bulge
Napoleon at Austerlitz
Tanks at Cambrai, Tobruk and the Bulge
Guns at the Somme and Monte Cassino
Bayonets and bagpipes -in Korea
★Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War
The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava
The American War of Independence
★Henry V at Agincourt
★ Elephants at the Battle of Metaurus
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Air Battles: The planes, the men and the Battles which revolutionised the concept of warfare
From the whirling dog-fights over the trenches of France, to the lightning Israeli jet-strike of the 1967 war The Pictorial History of Air Battles gives you a complete picture of the role of aircraft in modern warfare.
From picture-packed pages you'll learn about those battles that took place high above the clouds, the machines which revolutionized the practice of war, the pilots those super-warriors of the twentieth century.
Dozens of historic action photos, many in full colour, together with technical diagrams and an informative and highly-readable text, make The Pictorial History of Air Battles an exciting introduction to this special kind of warfare and a must for every enthusiast's bookshelf.
★The destruction of Zeppelin LZ 37
Richtofen and the World War I dog-fights
★Stuka terror attack on Warsaw
The Battle of Britain
★Coral Sea first all-carrier battle
★The Dambusters raid
★Schweinfurt the horrors of daylight bombing
Mosquito raid on Gestapo H.Q.
Kamikaze the Japanese suicide attacks
★MiGs and Sabres over Korea
The Israeli lightning jet-strike of 1967
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