Warfare

By DK,

Book cover of Warfare: The Definitive Visual History

Book description

The most wide-ranging and visually arresting history of wars and warfare ever published, Warfare: The Definitive Visual History documents every major war or significant period of conflict in over 5,000 years of human history.

A must-have reference gift for military enthusiasts and general readers alike, no other book about warfare…

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Warfare tells a far greater story than most fiction that I’ve read, informing real-life strategies, battles, weapons, and characters across all human history and locations.

As a history lover, I enjoyed how Warfare provided a generous helping of detail in how war is handled through different time periods. Telling of strategies, politics, weapons, and the people that shaped history's greatest battles.

The book does an amazing job of telling the exact steps that led to the outbreak of certain wars through the backstories of its key players and the outcomes that followed. As a fantasy lover, to me, human history…

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