The killing game: a thousand years of warfare in twenty battles

Description

Cacophony of war -- Introduction: The killing game -- 1. The Vikings are coming: Fulford Gate 1066 -- 2. Chivalry in armour: Northallerton 1138 -- 3. Destruction of the Crusaders: Homs 1281 -- 4. Triumph of the bow: Crécy 1346 -- 5. When Roses clash -- Bosworth 1485 -- 6. Rape of the New World: Tenochtitlan 1521 -- 7. Bastion of Christendom: St Elmo 1565 -- 8. No surrender, no quarter: Magdeburg 1631 -- 9. Turning point: Lostwithiel 1644 -- 10. Sword v. musket: Falkirk 1746 -- 11. An army divided: Wavre 1815 -- 12. Spear v. rifle: Isandhlwana 1879 -- 13 Tank v. tank: Villers-Bretonneux 1918 -- 14. Blitz but no Krieg: Britain 1940 -- 15. Storming the beaches: D-Day 1944 -- 16. The great river crossing: The Rhine 1945 -- 17. A very modern siege: Khe Sanh 1968 -- 18 Triumph in the air: Bekaa Valley 1982 -- 19. A show of force: Khafji 1991 -- 20. Asymmetric warfare: Tora Bora 2001 -- 21 Softwar & cyberwar: the new battlefields.;"The second millennium of mankind has been characterized by almost incessant warfare somewhere on the face of the globe. The Killing Game serves as a snapshot of the development of warfare over the past 1,000 years, illustrating the bravery and suffering mankind has inflicted upon itself in developing what we call the 'Art of War'. Here military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones selects twenty battles that illustrate the changing face of warfare over the past thousand years - from the Viking shield wall to long bows and knights, the emergence of gunpowder and finally the long-range faceless warfare of today. This is a look at the killing game and its devastating impact"-- Publisher description.