Here is the world's military history from ancient times to the present. Each time period has highlights, outstanding leaders, unusual developments, etc.

Includes maps of: Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 B.C.; Ancient India; Ancient China; Persian Empire, c. 500 B.C.; Battle of Marathon; Battle of Salamis; Battle of Leuctra; Battle of Arbela; Alexander's Conquests; Kingdoms of the Diadochi; Hannibal's Theatre of Operations; Battle of Trebia; Battle of Lake Trasimene; Battle of Cannae; Battle of the Metaurus; Battle of Zama; Mauryan Empire under Asoka, c. 250 B.C.; Battle of Cynocephlae; Battle of Chaeronea; Roman Empire, First Century B.C.; Siege of Alesia; Battle of Pharsalus; Battle of Actium; han Empire; Height of Ancient Civilization, c. A.D. 150; Ancient World, c. 400; China under the Hans and the Three Kingdoms; Battle of Chalons; Byzantine Empire under Justinian; Growth of the Carolingian Empire; Mohammedan World, c. 732; Eastern and Southern Asia, c. A.D. 750; Byzantine Themes, c. 950; Battle of Hastings; Islam and Christendom on the Eve of the Crusades; Asia Minor and the States of the Crusaders in Syria, c. 1140; Asia, c. 1030; Mongol Empire, Late 13th Century; Khwarezmian Empire; Mongol Invasion of Europe; Battle of Crecy; Battle of Poitiers; Europe, c. 1200; Hanseatic League and the Teutonic Knights; Constantinople; Europe in the Middle of the 15th Century; Battle of Agincourt; Armada; Ottoman Empire, c. 1550; Battle of Lepanto; Spanish and Portuguese Colonial Empires; Fortification and Siegecraft; Germany During the Thirty Years' War; Battle of Breitenfeld; Battle of Lutzen; Battle of Blenheim; Growth of Russia to 1725; Mogul India at Its Greatest Extent under Aurangzeb, 1707; Seven Years' War; Battle of Prague; Battle of Rossbach; Battle of Leuthen; Battle of Torgau; North Italy Campaign of 1796-1797; Battle of Rivoli, Alvintzy's Second Advance; Manchu Empire at Its Greatest Extent under Chien Lung, 1795; Revolutionary War; Battles of Saratoga - Freeman's Farm, Bemis Heights; Siege of Yorktown; Marengo; Ulm Campaign; German and Austrian Campaigns of Napoleon, 1805-1807, 1809, and 1813; Battle of Austerlitz; Battle of Trafalgar; Jena Campaign; Battle of Eylau; Battle of Friedland; Peninsular War, 1809-1814; Battle of Wagram; Europe in 1811; Russian Campaign, 1812; Battle of Borodino; Battle of Dresden; Battle of Leipzig; Battles of Ligny and Quatre-Bras; Battle of Waterloo; War of 1812, Northern Theatre; War of 1812, Operations around Washington and Baltimore, August 19-September 17, 1814; Mexican War; Battle of Buena Vista; Mexican War - Scott's Campaign, August 12-September 14, 1847; Independence Movements in Latin America; War of 1866; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871; South African War; American Civil War, 1861-1865; Jackson's Valley Campaign; Seven Days' Battle; Second Bull Run Campaign; Second Battle of Bull Run; Antietam Campaign; Battle of Antietam; Henry and Donelson Campaign; Vicksburg Campaign; Battle of Chancellorsville; Battle of Gettysburg; Battle of Chattanooga; Wilderness - Spotsylvania - Cold Harbor Campaign; Crossing the James River; Petersburg Campaign; Atlanta Campaign; Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905; Central Europe - Army Concentrations and Opposing Plans, July 1914; Battles of the Frontiers and German Advance to the Marne; Battle of the Marne; Battle of Tannenberg; Western Front, 1914-1918; Italian Front, 1915-1918; East European Fronts, 1914-1918; Gallipoli Campaign; Middle East Fronts, 1914-1918; Phases of the Battle of Jutland; Hutier Offensive Tactics; German Drives, 1918; Meuse-Argonne Offensive; Division of Spain, August-September 1936; Campaign in Poland, 1939; Campaign in the West, 1940, First Phase; Campaign in the West, Situation May 21, 1940, and Approximate Allied Lines, May 16 and 18; Battle of France, Second Phase; Campaigns in Egypt and Libya, September 13, 1940-June 17, 1941; Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece; German Invasion of Russia, 1941; German Advance in Russia, September-December 1941; Campaigns in Egypt and Libya, November 18, 1941-July 7, 1942; Landings in North Africa, November 8-11, 1942, and Advance into Tunisia, November-December 1942; German Offensive in Russia, 1942; Invasion of Sicily, July-August 1943; Invasion of Italy, Situation October 8, 1943, and Operations since September 3; Italy - Volturno, Winter Line, and Anzio Campaigns, October 1943-June 1944; Russo-German Front, 1942-1943; Operation Overlord, June-July 1944; Breakout and Pursuit, Northern France, July-September 1944; Campaign in Southern France, Situation August 22, 1944, and Operations since August 15; Ardennes Campaign, December 16, 1944-January 16, 1945; Russian Conquest of Eastern Europe, October 1944-April 1945; Rhineland and Ruhr Campaigns, January 15-April 1, 1945; Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941; Japanese Offensives in Asia, 1941-1942; Invasion of Burma, 1942; Bataan and Corregidor; Battle of Guadalcanal; Battle of Midway; Isolation of Rabaul, Operations August 1942-March 1944; Operations on New Guinea; Central Pacific Operations, November 1943-June 1944; Japanese Counteroffensive in China, 1944; Battle for Leyte Gulf; Final Operations in Burma, 1944-1945; Reconquest of the Philippines, 1945; Battle of Iwo Jima; Okinawa Campaign; South Vietnam in Southeast Asia; South Vietnam; Israel and Occupied Territories, 1967-1974; Korea - United Nations Defensive, June-September 1950; Korea - United Nations Offensive, September-November 1950; Korea - United Nations Counteroffensive, January-April 1951, and Communist Spring Offensive, April 22-May 22, 1951; Korea - United Nations Counteroffensive, May 22-July 8, 1951, and Stalemate Armistice Line, July 28, 1953; Falkland Islands; Lebanon. Includes bibliographical references (pages 1401-1408) and indexes. Includes indexes.

1.The dawn of military history : to 600 B.C. -- 2. War becomes an art : 600-400 B.C. -- 3. The era of the giants : 400-200 B.C. -- 4. The rise of great empires in East and West : 200-1 B.C. -- 5. The Pax Romana : A.D. 1-200 -- 6. The decline of Rome and the rise of cavalry : 200-400 -- 7. The opening of the Middle Ages : 400-600 -- 8. The rise and containment of Islam : 600-800 -- 9. The Dark Ages -- battle-ax and mace : 800-1000 -- 10. The return of skill to warfare : 1000-1200 -- 11. The age of the Mongols : 1200-1400 -- 12. The end of the Middle Ages : 1400-1500 -- 13. Spanish Square and ship-of-the-line : 1500-1600 -- 14. The beginning of modern warfare : 1600-1700 -- 15. The military supremacy of Europe : 1700-1750 -- 16. The dominance of maneuver on land and sea : 1750-1800 -- 17. The era of Napoleon : 1800-1850 -- 18. The emergency of the professional : 1850-1900 -- 19. World War I and the era of total war : 1900-1925 -- 20. World War II and the dawn of the Nuclear Age : 1925-1945 -- 21. Superpowers in the Nuclear Age : 1945-1975.