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Dictionary of Battles and Sieges

A Guide to 8500 Battles from Antiquity to the Twenty-first Century

Tony Jaques

This is the most extensive and comprehensive dictionary of battles and sieges ever published in English, with more than 8500 meticulously researched entries.

Opinion

Hot on the heels of a resurgence in military books comes the most comprehensive record of battles yet . . . [Putting] such an authoritative work together was no small feat, but as [author] Tony Jaques seems to instinctively understand, the preservation of human heritage should never be skimmed over or taken lightly.

-- Drew Turney, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, March 2007

This Australian 1354-page publication detailing 8500 battles from Egypt v Syria at Megiddo in 1468BC to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq will be an excellent reference for the military minded.

-- Frank Walker, Sun Herald, 1/4/07

About this Title

This is the most extensive and comprehensive dictionary of battles and sieges ever published in English, with more than 8500 meticulously researched entries. This dictionary offers easy-to-find A-Z entries that cover conflicts from practically every era and place of human history.

It includes history's best known battles as well as exhaustive coverage of World War II, World War I, the American Civil War, medieval wars and conflicts during the classical era. It also covers battles fought in pre-modern Africa, the Middle East, Ancient and Medieval India, China and Japan, and early meso-American warfare.

With a foreword by Professor Dennis Showalter, former president of the American Society for Military History, Battles and Sieges has been reviewed by an International Editorial Board of eminent military historians to ensure accuracy and to provide the broadest possible coverage.

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Jaques's Dictionary is truly global in scope, covering East Asia, South Asia, Eurasia, Europe, Africa, Mesoamerica and North and South America. Battles from wars great and small are in the dictionary, including battles from the following very brief sample, listed to give an idea of the book's deep coverage: Egyptian-Syrian Wars (1468 BC); the Assyrian Wars (724-648 BC); Greco-Persian Wars (498-450 BC); the Conquests of Alexander the Great (335-326 BC); Rome's Gallic Wars (121-52 BC); Han Imperial Wars (208); Hun-Ostrogoth Wars (454-68); Sino-Vietnamese Wars (547-605); Mecca-Medina War (624-30); Jinshin War (672); Berber Rebellion (740-61); Viking Raids on, and in, Britain (793-954); Sino-Annamese War (938); Byzantine Military Rebellions (978-89); Afghan Wars of Succession (998-1041); Russian Dynastic Wars (1016-94); Reconquista (1063-1492); Crusader-Muslim Wars (1100- 1179); Swedish Wars of Succession (1160-1210); Conquests of Genghis Khan (1202-27); William Wallace Revolt (1297-1304); Hundred Years War (1337-1453); War of Chioggia (1378-80); Vijayanagar-Bahmani Wars (1367-1406); Ottoman Civil Wars (1413-81); Mongol-Uzbek Wars (1497-1512); German Knights' War (1523); Burmese-Laotian Wars (1574); Cambodian-Spanish War (1599); King Philip's War (1675-77); Franco-Barbary Wars (1728); Bengal War (1763-65); French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1801); Chilean War of Independence (1813-26); Boer-Zulu War (1838); Indian Mutiny (1858-59); Mexican-French War (1862-67); Sino-Japanese War (1894-95); World War I (1914-18); Anhwei-Chihli War (1920); World War II (1939-45) Mau Mau Revolt (1955); 2nd Indo-Pakistani War (1965); Angolan War (1987-88); 2nd Gulf War (2003- ).

About the Author

Tony Jaques was born in New Zealand and graduated in political science then started his professional life in journalism in New Zealand and London before moving to political speech writing. He now works and teaches in the field of corporate communication and issue management where he has been extensively published. A teenage enthusiasm for World War II became a life-time passion for military history in all eras. He is currently resident in Melbourne, Australia.

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