Jeremy Black is one of the UK's most respected and prolific historians. He is a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange, Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University and a renowned expert on the history of war. His recent books include France: A Short History, also published by Thames & Hudson.

Contributors
World map
Introduction

Ancient World
Introduction
1 Marathon (490 BC)
2 Salamis (480 BC)
3 Gaugamela (331 BC)
4 Cannae (216 BC)
5 Gaixia (203 BC)
6 Actium (31 BC)
7 Teutoburg Forest (AD 9)
8 Adrianople (378)

Medieval World
Introduction
9 Poitiers (732)
10 Lechfeld (955)
11 Hastings (1066)
12 Manzikert (1071)
13 Hattin (1187)
14 Liegnitz (1241)
15 Hakata Bay (1281)
16 Bannockburn (1314)
17 Crécy (1346)
18 Ankara (1402)
19 Agincourt (1415)
20 The Fall of Constantinople (1453)
21 Bosworth (1485)

Sixteenth Century
Introduction
22 Flodden (1513)
23 Tenochtitlan (1521)
24 Pavia (1525)
25 Panipat (1526)
26 Mohács (1526)
27 Lepanto (1571)
28 The Armada (1588)

Seventeenth Century
Introduction
29 Sekigahara (1600)
30 Breitenfeld (1631)
31 Nördlingen (1634)
32 Shanhaiguan (1644)
33 Naseby (1645)
34 Vienna (1683)

Eighteenth Century
Introduction
35 Blenheim (1704)
36 Poltava (1709)
37 Belgrade (1717)
38 Rossbach (1757)
39 Plassey (1757)
40 Quebec (1759)
41 Saratoga (1777)
42 Yorktown (1781)
43 Jemappes (1792)

Nineteenth Century
Introduction
44 Trafalgar (1805)
45 Leipzig (1813)
46 Waterloo (1815)
47 Ayacucho (1824)
48 Mexico City (1847)
49 Inkerman (1854)
50 Antietam (1862)
51 Gettysburg (1863)
52 Sadowa (1866)
53 Omdurman (1898)

Modern Times
Introduction
54 Tsushima (1905)
55 Tannenberg (1914)
56 Jutland (1916)
57 Verdun (1916)
58 The Western Front (1918)
59 Battle of Britain (1940)
60 Battle for Moscow (1941)
61 Stalingrad (1942-43)
62 Midway (1942)
63 Battle of the Atlantic (1940-43)
64 Battle for Normandy (1944)<
br/> 65 Operation Bagration (1944) 66 The American Air Attack on Japan (1945)
67 Huai-Hai (1948-49)
68 Dien Bien Phu (1953-54)
69 The Tet Offensive (1968)
70 The Iraq War (2003)

Further Reading
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