Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Battles written by Jon E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the massacre at Wounded Knee to the high-tech victory of Operation Desert Storm, this book presents forty gripping accounts of the battles that made the modern world. They are rendered in superb detail and analysis by such award-winning historians as John Keegan, Alan Clark, and Paul Kennedy. Here are the great conflicts of the two World Wars, the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, the Falklands, and Israel. The Mammoth Book of Battles brings to life for all military historians the awesome scale and destructive power of modern warfare.