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War Chronicles: from Chariots to Flintlocks : From Chariots to Flintlocks by Joseph Cummins (2018, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBook Sales, Incorporated

ISBN-100785836667

ISBN-139780785836667

eBay Product ID (ePID)3038656955

Product Key Features

Book TitleWar Chronicles: from Chariots to Flintlocks : from Chariots to Flintlocks

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMilitary / Weapons, Military / General

Publication Year2018

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorJoseph Cummins

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight47.6 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width7.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal355.0209

SynopsisTwenty-two centuries of warfare, twenty-two wars that changed the world-- The War Chronicles: From Chariots to Flintlocks captures it all in 400 pages enhanced with 150+ archival illustrations gathered from around the world. The War Chronicles: From Chariots to Flintlocks is the perfect primer for novices while offering seasoned history readers new perspectives on many famous and some not-so-well-known conflicts. Each chapter includes a quick-reference summary, a timeline, an overview of the war, essays on its principal leaders, a series of short, often offbeat features on aspects of the conflict, and a detailed account of a pivotal battle. Author Joseph Cummins highlights pivotal victories that changed nations, from the Norman invasion of England in 1066 to the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521, and delineates defining moments in the development of political philosophies , from Athens' defense of democracy against Persian despotism to the championing of equal rights for all in the American Revolution. It recounts the heroism of armies and individuals , from the Spartans' fight to the death against the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 BC to the Korean admiral who inspired his country to repel a massive Japanese invasion in the 1590s. Yet it does not shy away from showing the acts of savagery that characterize much warfare, describing, for example, the trail of devastation left by the Mongols as they cut a swath through Asia and Eastern Europe in the thirteenth century, and the atrocities perpetrated on German civilians by all sides in the Thirty Years' War of the seventeenth century. "Cummins' main goal of illustrating the law of unintended consequences is nimbly achieved with gripping stories and lively writing." -- Library Journal, The War Chronicles: From Chariots to Flintlocks is an accessible and engaging history of all of the most important and momentous conflicts from 500 BCE to 1783 AD.