The Seventy Great Battles of All Time

“An international team of military historians reconstructs and analyzes the 70 decisive battles that shaped world history” declares the blurb on the back cover of this new title from Thames & Hudson. One of a number of titles from the publisher in a “Seventy” series (others include Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World and Seventy Architectural Wonders of Our World), it is edited by Jeremy Black of Exeter University, a well known military historian and broadcaster and writer of texts such as War: Past Present and Future (Black, 2000) and World War Two (Black, 2003)....