Cover -- Title -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 The Greco-Persian War -- CHAPTER 2 The Wars of Alexander the Great -- CHAPTER 3 The Punic Wars -- CHAPTER 4 The Barbarian Invasions -- CHAPTER 5 The Muslim Conquests -- CHAPTER 6 The Reconquista -- CHAPTER 7 The Norman Conquest -- CHAPTER 8 The Crusades -- CHAPTER 9 The Mongol Conquests -- CHAPTER 10 The Hundred Years War -- CHAPTER 11 The Spanish Conquest of Mexico -- CHAPTER 12 The Thirty Years War -- CHAPTER 13 The Seven Years' War -- CHAPTER 14 The American Revolution -- CHAPTER 15 The French Revolutionary Wars -- CHAPTER 16 The Napoleonic Wars -- CHAPTER 17 The Taiping Rebellion -- CHAPTER 18 The U.S. Civil War -- CHAPTER 19 World War I -- CHAPTER 20 The Russian Civil War -- CHAPTER 21 The Chinese Civil War -- CHAPTER 22 World War II -- CHAPTER 23 The Arab-Israeli War -- CHAPTER 24 The Vietnam War -- CHAPTER 25 The Soviet-Afghan War -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.