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War through the ages Rev. and enl. 3d ed. by Montross, Lynn, 1895-1961

Contents: “…The Classical Age : The Gymnastic Warfare of Greece ; Macedonia's Human Fortress ; Alexander against the World ; The Roman Legion ; Hanibal Crosses the Alps ; The Cohorts of Peace -- The Cavalry Cycle : The Dark Ages of War ; The Byzantine Horse-Archer ; Constantinople as a Bulwark ; The Crusades ; The Far East ; Longbow and Halberd ; The Dawn of Gunpowder -- The Military Renaissance : Pike and Arquebus ; The March of Islam ; The Huguenot Uprisings ; Revolt in the Netherlands ; Gustavus Adolphus ; The Thirty Years' War ; England's New Model -- Armed Diplomacy : War for Profit ; The Grand Monarch ; Marlborough and Eugene ; The King at Arms ; Frederick's Big Guns -- The Revolution in Tactics : The American Rifle ; French Horde Tactics ; General Bonaparte in Italy ; Sword of the Empire ; The War on the Peninsula ; The Road to Waterloo -- War's Machine Age : South American Revolution ; The Tactics of Reaction ; The New Warfare of the West ; The Decision in America ; German Blood and Iron ; The Prussia of the Orient -- World War I : 1914: The Lights Go Out ; Deadlock on the Western Front ; The Sorrows of Victory ; Germany Wins the Peace ; The Resumption in 1939 -- World War II : Hitler's Conquest of Europe ; Britain Fights for Survival ; War in the Balkans and Russia ; The War in the Pacific ; The End of the Beginning ; A Second Front in Europe ; Surrender of the Axis Powers ; The Sequel in Korea.…”