50 Battles That Changed the World: The Conflicts That Most Influenced the Course of History
Book Description
Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed the World takes a brief look at the fifty battles the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of importance for our world today, they range from the ancient world to the present and span the globe to present the conflicts that truly changed the course of history. This is not a book so much about military strategy as about the implications of the battles that did the most to shape the world as we know it.
Book Info
A text taking a profound look at the 50 battles the author feels had the deepest impacts on human history. Rather than taking a celebratory tone, this text lists battles in the order the author feels they are relevant to the modern world, de-emphasizing military strategy. Focuses on how these battles shaped modern civilization. DLC: Battles.
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An introduction to cooking in Turkey, featuring such recipes as spinach-filled Anatolian flat bread, lamb kebabs, and baklava. Also includes information on the history, geography, customs, and people of this partly European and partly Asian country.
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A fun and easy way to learn about computers!
"The Cartoon Guide to the Computer" by Larry Gonick is another of his informative cartoons about different subjects. This book was originally titled "The Cartoon Guide to Computer Science", and was published in 1983. So much has happened in the world of computers since 1983, that this book has become very dated. This book still works as a history of Computers, but the parts of the book which focus more on the current state of computers is no longer relevant, nor was it when the book was published again in 1991 by HarperPerennial.
The areas that are well done include the history of the subject and related subjects, the overview of how computers work, the sections on logic and binary numbers.
The text includes some humor, and some history. But it clearly explains the basics of information theory, and logical operations.
Dr. Kissinger's book is a must read for those wishing to gain insight into the politics of the diplomatic process. He takes great pains to be fair in his assessment of a number of personalities from President Nixon, to Indira Gandi. Self-observations are modest to the point of self-deprecation. The chapters in which he chronicles the Nixon Administration's involvement in the Vietnam War is worth the price of the book. Mr. Kissinger's observation of this tumultuous time in our history is candid, sometimes sad, but scholarly without being pedantic.
Over 8,500 battles and sieges are covered-easily the most exhaustive
reference source on this basic aspect of military history. Thoroughly
vetted by an expert board of period and regional experts, this
dictionary offers easy to find A-Z entries that cover conflicts from
practically every era and place of human history. In addition to
exhaustive coverage of World War II, World War I, the American Civil
War, medieval wars, and conflicts during the classical era, this
dictionary covers battles fought in pre-modern Africa, the Middle East,
Ancient and Medieval India, China, and Japan, and early meso-American
warfare as well. Going well beyond the typical greatest or most
influential battle format, The Dictionary of Battles and Sieges offers
readers information they would be hard-pressed to find anywhere else.
Entries were reviewed by area and period experts to ensure accuracy and
to provide the broadest coverage possible.
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