This book provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive coverage of warfare across times and cultures. Its main strengths are its ability to provide context for each period discussed, comparison between developments in Europe, Asia, and the colonized world, and critical and up-to-date bibliographies that allow the reader to pursue subjects in greater depth. - Jacket flap.

Uses a year-by-year format to provide a comprehensive, chronological summary of world history from the earliest recorded events to 2004.

Now available in paperback, the first entirely new historical atlas for 20 years, covering every region of the world at every period of its history