This atlas covers over one hundred years of military history, including World War One; World War Two, both the European and Pacific theaters of action; the Korean Conflict; the Vietnam War; and more recent conflicts in Iraq, Bosnia, Serbia, and Afghanistan. Here is a unique overview of the key battles that helped develop the way present-day battles are fought.

Relief shown by gradient tints and hachures on some maps.

The great war. The world in 1914 -- Europe, 1914 -- Northwest Europe, 1914 -- Verdun and vicinity, 1916 -- Peronne and vicinity, 1916 -- Northeastern Italy, 1915-1917 -- Northwest Europe, 1914 -- Eastern Europe, 1914 -- Central Europe, 1914 -- East Prussia, 1914 -- Northeastern Europe, 1914 -- Southwestern Russia and Galicia -- The Balkans, 1914 -- Eurasia, 1914 -- The Dardanelles Galliopi Peninsula, 1915 -- North Sea -- Lower Mesopotamia, 1914 -- Europe -- The Second World War Europe and the Mediterranean. Europe -- Poland, 1939 -- Northwestern Europe, 1940 -- Northwestern France, 1940 -- Eastern Europe, 1941 -- Southwest Russia, 1942 -- Eastern Europe, 1941 -- Kursk and vicinity, 1943 -- Eastern Europe, 1941 -- Poland, 1939 -- The Mediterranean basin -- Sicily, 1943 -- Southern Italy, 1944 -- Anzio-Cassino area, 1943 -- Northwestern Europe, 1940 -- Northwestern France, 1944 -- Normandy, 1944 -- Northwestern France, 1944 -- Northwestern Europe, 1940 -- Northwestern Europe, 1944 -- Northwestern Europe, 1940 -- The Ardennes area, 1944 -- Germany, 1944 -- Central Europe, 1944 -- The Second World War Asia and the Pacific. The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 -- Southeast Asia, 1941 -- The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 -- Micronesia, Melanesia, and New Guinea -- The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 -- The western Pacific, New Guinea, and the Phillippine Islands -- The Phillippine Islands -- Southeast Asia, 1941 -- The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 -- The western Pacific -- The Korean War. The Korean conflict, 1950-1951 -- The stabilized front, 1952-1953 -- The Vietnam War. Indochina, 1961 -- Tet offensive, 1968 -- Cambodian incursion, May-June 1970 -- Easter offensive, March-May 1972 -- The final days, 1975 -- Post-cold war conflict. Operation Desert Storm, 24-28 February 1991 -- Bosnia and Herzegovina stabilization force (SFOR), February-March 2002 -- Kosovo force sectors (KFOR) Serbia, Kosovo autonomous province May 2002 -- Major U.S. operations Afghanistan, October 2001-March 2002 -- Operation Anaconda Afghanistan, March 2002 -- Invasion of Iraq operation Iraqi Freedom, 21 March-9 April 2003 -- Initial occupation zones operation Operation Freedom, 1 June 2003.