War in 100 Events
Published on 1. September 2017
224 pages
978-0-7509-8532-1 (ISBN)
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'War is a duel written large.' How did we get from clubs and spears to machine guns and drone missiles? What led to the human race firing projectiles across a no-man's-land, from straightforward warfare to spies and insurgency? Here renowned military historian Martin van Creveld has compiled a concise guide to the history of war in 100 key events, from 10,000 BCE to the present day: Stone Age 'wars'; Vikings raids; medieval conflicts; revolutionary wars; Napoleonic wars; world wars; the Iraq war; women in war and much more. With intriguing facts and a worldwide range, War in 100 Events is an immensely entertaining volume for military buffs and laymen alike.
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English
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Stroud
United Kingdom
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50 Illustrations, black and white
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12,02 MB
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978-0-7509-8532-1 (9780750985321)
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PROF. EM. MARTIN VAN CREVELD, of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, is widely acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on military history and strategy. He is the author of 30 books, which between them have been published in 20 languages. He writes frequently for scholarly journals and international magazines, and is no stranger to TV and radio work (BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera etc.). His website, martin-van-creveld.com, is updated weekly (approx. 130,000 readers).
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Why this Book
- Part I. The Ascent of War, 10,000 BCE-476 CE
- 1 c. 10,000 BCE: The Beginning of War?
- 2 c. 3500 BCE: Beginning of the Bronze Age
- 3 c. 2650 BCE: The Battle of Banquan
- 4 1274 BCE: The Battle of Kadesh
- 5 1194 BCE: Beginning of the Trojan War
- 6 1186 BCE: First Naval Battle on Record
- 7 c. 1000 BCE: Incipient Shift from Bronze to Iron Weapons
- 8 541 BCE: Birth Year of Sun Tzu
- 9 490 BCE: First Persian Invasion of Greece
- 10 431 BCE: Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
- 11 399 BCE: The Invention of Mechanical Artillery
- 12 338 BCE: First Campaign of Alexander the Great
- 13 264 BCE: Outbreak of the Punic Wars
- 14 220 BCE: Construction of China's Great Wall Begins
- 15 200 BCE: Opening of Rome's Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean
- 16 91 BCE: Outbreak of the Roman Civil Wars
- 17 9 CE: The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
- 18 378 CE: The Battle of Adrianople
- 19 c. 400 CE: Publication of Vegetius' Epitoma Rei Militaris
- 20 451 CE: Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
- Part II. Medieval War, 476-1494 CE
- 21 533: Opening of Justinian's Campaigns
- 22 629: T'ang Campaigns Against the Eastern Turkic Kahganate
- 23 634: Mohammed's Followers Burst Out of the Arabian Peninsula
- 24 732: Battle of Tours Turns Back the Muslims in Europe
- 25 c. 750: In Europe the Shift Towards Cavalry Begins
- 26 771: Beginning of Charlemagne's Wars
- 27 789: Beginning of the Viking Raids
- 28 894: Beginning of the Hungarian Campaigns in Europe
- 29 1095: Urban II Proclaims the First Crusade
- 30 1197: Opening of Genghis Khan's Campaigns
- 31 1274: First Mongol Attempt to Invade Japan
- 32 1337: Outbreak of the Hundred Years War
- 33 1346: First Recorded Use of Gunpowder in the West
- 34 1370: Opening of Timur's Campaigns
- 35 1380: Dmitry Donskoy Defeats the Golden Horde at Kulikovo
- 36 1427: Opening of the Aztec Imperial Wars
- 37 1438: Opening of the Inca Imperial Wars
- 38 1453: The Ottomans Capture Constantinople
- 39 c. 1460: Dawning of the Columbian Age
- 40 1492: Completion of the Reconquista
- Part III. Fighting with Guns, 1495-1815 CE
- 41 1494: Opening of the Italian Wars
- 42 c. 1522: Introduction of the Artillery Fortress
- 43 1571: The Battle of Lepanto
- 44 1575: The Battle of Nagashino
- 45 1588: Defeat of the Spanish Armada
- 46 1618: Outbreak of the Thirty Years War
- 47 1644: Beijing Falls to the Qin of Manchuria
- 48 c. 1660: Culmination of the Military Revolution
- 49 1667: Beginning of Louis XIV's Wars
- 50 1700: Outbreak of the Great Northern War
- 51 1740: Outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession
- 52 1756: Outbreak of the Seven Years War
- 53 1757: Battle of Plassey
- 54 1769: Beginning of the Wars of Catherine the Great
- 55 1775: First Shots in the War of the American Revolution
- 56 1792: Outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars
- 57 1803: Outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars
- 58 1808: Outbreak of the Wars of Latin American Independence
- 59 1812: War of 1812
- 60 1815: Waterloo and the End of the Napoleonic Wars
- Part IV. Industrial War, 1815-1945 CE
- 61 1830: Beginning of the French Conquest of Algeria
- 62 1832: Publication of Clausewitz's On War
- 63 c. 1835: Beginning of the Military-Technological Revolution
- 64 1839: Outbreak of the Opium Wars
- 65 1846: Outbreak of the Mexican-American War
- 66 1853: Outbreak of the Crimean War
- 67 1859: Franco-Austrian War
- 68 1861: Outbreak of the American Civil War
- 69 1864: Beginning of the Wars of German Unification
- 70 1866: The Battle of Lissa
- 71 1894: Outbreak of the Chinese-Japanese War
- 72 1898: Spanish-American War
- 73 1904: Outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War
- 74 1914: Outbreak of World War I
- 75 1917: Outbreak of the Russian Civil War
- 76 1936: Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
- 77 1937: Outbreak of the Chinese-Japanese War
- 78 1939: Outbreak of World War II in Europe
- 79 1941: Outbreak of World War II in the Pacific
- 80 1945: First (and Last) Use of Nuclear Weapons
- Part V. The Regression of War, 1945 CE-Present
- 81 1946: Resumption of the Chinese Civil War
- 82 1946: Outbreak of the Indochina War
- 83 1947: First Round of the Indo-Pak Wars
- 84 1948: Opening Round in the Arab-Israeli Wars
- 85 1950: Outbreak of the Korean War
- 86 1954: Outbreak of the Algerian War of Independence
- 87 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
- 88 1965: The US Enters the Vietnam War
- 89 c. 1970: Women's Role in the Military Starts Expanding
- 90 1973: The US Ends Conscription
- 91 1979: Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
- 92 1980: Outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War
- 93 1980: PTSD Enters the DSM
- 94 1990: First Gulf War
- 95 c. 1991: The Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)
- 96 1991: Outbreak of the War(s) in Yugoslavia
- 97 2001: Nine-Eleven
- 98 2001: American Invasion of Afghanistan
- 99 2003: American Invasion of Iraq
- 100 2010: Outbreak of the 'Arab Spring' Wars
- Further Reading
