The Oxford Companion to Military History

The expertise of 140 academics, retired soldiers, journalists, museum curators, and professional authors has been recruited to compile the 13,000+ initialled entries in this massive overview of military history from ancient times to the modern world. More than a dictionary of battles, or of military biographies, the aim of this Companion is to provide “a source of dependable information and thoughtful assessment for intelligent general readers” and also “a reliable and quick reference for scholars in this particular field and its related disciplines”. The second group of perceived users, scholars in the field, we can accept without question but whether...