Provides an accessible. highly-illustrated introduction to 30 of historys most famou battles. including Marathon. Hastings. Agincourt. Saratoga. Trafalgar. Waterloo. Gettysburg. the Somme. Stalingrad. D-Day. and many. many more Includes full-color tactical maps that allow the reader to grasp at a glance the decisive moves of the battle Features more than 250 color and black-and-white photographs and artworks illustrating the uniforms. tactics. and military technology of the era