"Decisive conflicts that have shaped history."--Cover.

Includes index.

Theage of the sword. Marathon, 490 BCE ; Salamis, 480 BCE ; Gaugamela, 331 BCE ; Cannae, 216 BCE ; Alesia, 52 BCE ; Adrianople, CE 378 ; Tours/Poitiers, CE 732 ; Hastings, 1066 ; Hattin, 1187 ; Tannenberg, 1410 ; Agincourt, 1415 -- The age of gunpowder. Constantinople, 1453 ; Lepanto, 1571 ; The Great Armada, 1588 ; Lützen, 1632 ; Blenheim, 1704 ; Saratoga, 1777 ; Trafalgar, 1805 ; Austerlitz, 1805 ; Waterloo, 1815 -- The age of the rifle. Antietam, 1862 ; Gettysburg, 1863 ; Verdun, 1916 ; The Somme, 1916 ; The Battle of Britain, 1940 ; Stalingrad, 1942 ; Midway, 1942 ; Normandy, 1944 ; The Tet Offensive, 1968 ; Operation "Iraqi Freedom," 2003.