DK Eyewitness Books: Battle: Discover the Weapons, Equipment, and Tactics Used in Conflicts Throughout the Ages - Hardcover

Holmes, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0756650275 ISBN 13: 9780756650278

Publisher: DK Children, 2009

Synopsis

The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.
Eyewitness Battle is DK's classic look at the history of military science and warfare, now reissued with a CD and wall chart.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Photographed in full color. Discover the stories behind the most compelling skirmishes in history: how Alexander the Great was the first general to hire spies; how Napoleon's "shock" tactics won him an empire; and how the telegraph changed the course of the Civil War.  

About the Author:

Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Books Critics Circle Award, and was one of the New York Times Book Review's Best Books of the Year in 2009. Holmes's other books include This Long Pursuit, Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Coleridge: Darker Reflections (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the James Tait Black Prize). He was awarded the OBE in 1992. He lives in England.

About this edition

• Publisher: DK Children
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0756650275
• ISBN 13: 9780756650278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 72