xxi, 1654 pages : 25 cm

A classic compendium of and reference guide to the military history of the world - the wars, combat operations, and growth of military arts: tactics, strategy, and weaponry. New, updated, and revised to include new discoveries about the use of weapons in ancient China, upheavals in Lebanon, the winding down of the Soviet-Afghanistan war, the invasions of Grenada and Panama by U.S. forces, the war in the Persian Gulf, and the collapse of the Soviet and Eastern European Communist governments. -- Publisher description

"First edition"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1573-1583) and indexes

The dawn of military history: to 600 B.C. -- War becomes an art: 600-400 B.C. -- The era of the giants: 400-200 B.C. -- The rise of great empires in East and West: 200-1 B.C. -- The Pax Romana: A.D. 1-200 -- The decline of Rome and the rise of cavalry: 200-400 -- The opening of the Middle Ages: 400-600 -- The rise and containment of Islam: 600-800 -- The Dark Ages: battle-ax and mace: 800-1000 -- The return of skill to warfare: 1000-1200 -- The age of the Mongols: 1200-1400 -- The end of the Middle Ages: 1400-1500 -- Spanish square and ship-of-the-line: 1500-1600 -- The beginning of modern warfare: 1600-1700 -- The military supremacy of Europe: 1700-1750 -- The dominance of maneuver on land and sea: 1750-1800 -- The era of Napoleon: 1800-1850 -- The emergence of the professional: 1850-1900 -- World War I and the era of total war: 1900-1925 -- World War II and the dawn of the nuclear age: 1925-1945 -- Superpowers in the nuclear age: 1945-1975 -- Dominance of technology: 1975-1990

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