The origins of war / Robert L. O'Connell -- Amazons / Adrienne Mayor and Josiah Ober -- The Athenian century / Chester G. Starr -- Alexander in India / Arther Farrill -- Cannae / Victor Davis Hanson -- The Masada myth / Neil Asher Silberman -- The ineffable union of horse and man / David Quammen -- The first crusade / Norman Kotker -- The life and hard times of the crossbow / Robert L. O'Connell -- The gunpowder revolution / William McNeill -- Apocalypse at Münster / Jon Swan -- The Great Wall of China / David Clay Large -- The maiden soldier of Picardy / John A. Lynn -- Taking up the gun / Geoffrey Parker -- George Washington, general / Thomas Fleming -- Berezina / Ira Meistrich -- Stalking the Nana Sahib / Andrew Ward -- What took the North so long? / Williamson Murray -- The Stonewall enigma / John Bowers -- The last word on the Lost Order / Stephen W. Sears -- The fiery trail of the Alabama / John M. Taylor -- Ulysses S. Grant's final victory / James M. McPherson -- "The man of silence" / Caleb Carr -- Crook and Miles, fighting and feuding on the Indian frontier / Robert M. Utley -- The Kipkororor chronicles / Robert F. Jones -- Mutiny on the Potemkin / Elihu Rose -- Europe 1914 / Michael Howard -- Albert and the Yser / Robert Cowley -- The wreck of the Magdeburg / David Kahn -- Jutland / John Keegan -- The tunnels of Hill 60 / Robert Cowley -- FDR's Western Front idyll / Geoffrey C. Ward -- Gamblers on the Turkish brink / David Fromkin -- Joint plan RED / Thaddeus Holt -- Guernica : death in the afternoon / David Clay Large -- "They can't realize the change aviation has made" / Richard M. Ketchum -- The battle of Britain : how did "the few" win? / Williamson Murray -- From light to heavy duty / Paul Fussell -- The end in North Africa / Hans von Luck -- Bill, Willie, and Joe / David Lamb -- A lousy story / Vladimir Lemport ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky -- Conscripting the Queens / John Maxtone-Graham -- The secrets of Overlord / Stephen E. Ambrose -- When the maquis stood and fought / Ted Morgan -- Casey's German gamble / Joseph E. Persico -- The tragedy of unconditional surrender / Charles Strozier -- First strike / Abraham Rabinovich -- A very long night at Cam Lo / Ronald H. Spector -- Twilight zone at the Pentagon / Thomas B. Allen -- "That's ocay XX time is on our side" / Geoffrey Norman -- The Gulf Crisis and the rules of war / Martin van Creveld.