From the Publisher: The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare provides a unique account of Western warfare from antiquity to the present, The book treats all aspects of the subject from the Greeks to the nuclear age: the development of warfare on land, sea and air; weapons and technology; strategy and defense; discipline and intelligence. Throughout, there is an emphasis on the socio-economic aspects of war: who pays for it, how can its returns be measured, and to what extent does it explain the rise of the West to global dominance over tow millennia?

First published: 1995.

Introduction : the western way of war / Geoffrey Parker -- pt. 1. The age of massed infantry : Genesis of the infantry 600-350 BC / Victor Davis Hanson -- From phalanx to legion 350-250 BC / Victor Davis Hanson -- The Roman way of war 250 BC-AD 300 / Victor Davis Hanson -- pt. 2. The age of stone fortifications : On Roman ramparts 300-1300 / Bernard S. Bachrach -- New weapons, new tactics 1300-1500 / Christopher Allmand -- The gunpowder revolution 1300-1500 / Geoffrey Parker -- pt. 3. The age of guns and sails: Ships of the line 1500-1650 / Geoffrey Parker -- Conquest of the Americas 1500-1650 / Patricia Seed -- Dynastic war 1494-1660 / Geoffrey Parker -- States in conflict 1661-1763 / John A. Lynn -- Nations in arms 1763-1815 / John A. Lynn -- pt. 4. The age of mechanized warfare : The industrialization of war 1815-71 / Williamson A. Murray -- Towards world war 1871-1914 / Williamson A. Murray -- The west at war 1914-18 / Williamson A. Murray -- The world in conflict 1919-41 / Williamson A. Murray -- The world at war 1941-45 / Williamson A. Murray -- The post-war world 1945-2007 / Williamson A. Murray and Geoffrey Parker -- Epilogue : the future of western warfare / Geoffrey Parker.