The Encyclopedia of Warfare

"Every age has its own kind of war." -- Clausewitz, On War Raids, invasions and sieges; trench battles, naval encounters and aerial dogfights; civil wars, guerrilla wars, trade wars and nuclear wars; wars of succession, religion and independence wars have been fought in all kinds of ways and for all kinds of reasons. Some wars have ended with slavery for the defeated, other wars have been fought over slavery. Some wars have resulted in the destruction of whole civilizations, other wars have exhausted both sides into a stalemate. From the Seven Years' War to the Hundred Years' War, from the Wars of the Roses to the Opium Wars, from Arctic war to jungle war to amphibious war, The Encyclopedia of Warfare presents the reader with more than 5,000 entries -- arranged chronologically --on wars, campaigns, empires, rebellions and counter-insurgencies. With a scope that begins with battles fought with spears and ends with the latest drone technology, The Encyclopedia of Warfare features an immense range of conflict from the ancient world to the present day, from Alexander the Great to the fall of the Roman Empire, from the Huns and the Mongols to the Vikings and the Crusades, from the wars of religion to world wars; from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Arab Spring and Syria today. Packed with expert summaries and featuring 600 color maps of battles, sieges, campaigns, and empires, The Encyclopedia of Warfare is an authoritative compendium of almost five millennia of conflict.