The Handy Military History Answer Book.
Title:
The Handy Military History Answer Book.
Author:
Crompton, Samuel Willard.
ISBN:
9781578595518
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (561 pages)
Series:
The Handy Answer Book Series
Contents:
Cover -- About the Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Photo Credits -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Ch 1: Iron, Stone, and Bronze: 3000 to 320 B.C.E -- Ch 2: Empires and Barbarians: 320 B.C.E. to 800 C.E -- Ch 3: The World Island: 801 to 1405 -- Ch 4: Holy Wars: 1095 to 1453 -- Ch 5: Renaissance and Reformation Warfare: 1454 to 1648 -- Ch 6: The Enlightenment: 1648 to 1763 -- Ch 7: Age of Revolution: 1763 to 1799 -- Ch 8: The Napoleonic Era: 1800 to 1815 -- Ch 9: Nationalities and Grim Practicalities: 1815 to 1860 -- Ch 10: Civil Wars and Imperial Grabs: 1861 to 1913 -- Ch 11: The Great War: 1914 to 1918 -- Ch 12: From Coal to Oil: 1919 to 1939 -- Ch 13: World War II: 1939 to 1945 -- Ch 14: The Cold War: 1945 to 1980 -- Ch 15: Resource Wars and Religious Conflicts: 1980 to 2014 -- Further Reading -- Timeline -- Index -- Prehistory -- First Settlements -- The Late Bronze Age -- Hebrews and Jews -- Greeks and Persians -- Greek versus Greek -- The Phalanx -- Alexander -- Alexander's Successors -- Early Rome -- Punic Wars -- "Our Sea," the Mediterranean -- Roman Civil War -- The Roman Empire -- Augustus' Heirs -- The Pax Romana -- The Mid-Century Crisis -- Barbarian Tribes and the Fall of Rome -- The Byzantine Empire -- The Arab Explosion -- Charlemagne -- The Mongols -- The Mongols in China -- Tamerlane and Bayezid -- The Normans -- The First Crusade -- Jihad -- The Third Crusade -- The Fourth Crusade -- Philip versus John -- Border Wars -- The Hundred Years' War -- End of the Byzantine Empire -- Luther and Pope Leo X -- Cortés and Montezuma -- Magellan and Elcano -- Henry, Charles, and Francis -- The Terrible Turk -- Catholic versus Protestant -- The Rise of Russia -- The Rise of England -- Malta and Lepanto -- The Spanish Armada.
Religious Wars in France -- The Thirty Years' War -- The Rise of France -- The Short Peace -- War of the Austrian Succession -- French, Indians, English, and Americans -- Commander in Chief -- The Times That Try Mens' Souls -- Year of the Hangman -- Diplomats Abroad -- The French Alliance -- Benedict Arnold's Treason -- Greene versus Cornwallis -- The Revolution of 1789 -- Barbary Pirates -- France versus Everyone -- Napoleon's Zenith -- The Momentous Year -- The American War -- Exile to Elba -- Rockets' Red Glare -- Napoleon's Last Gamble -- Conservatives and Reactionaries -- New Technologies -- Revolutions, Again -- Far Eastern Wars -- Taiping Rebellion -- Texas Revolution -- U.S.-Mexican War -- Revolutions of 1848 -- Crimean War -- Garibaldi's Revolution -- Union versus Confederacy -- Vicksburg and Gettysburg -- The Last Battles of the U.S. Civil War -- The Rise of Prussia -- Franco-Prussian War -- Overseas Empires -- The American Empire -- The Zulu Wars -- End-of-the-Century Conflicts -- Russo-Japanese War -- Balkan Wars -- The Assassination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand -- First Battles of World War I -- The Eastern Front -- War at Sea -- Gallipoli -- The Western Front in 1915 -- Meat Grinder -- Battle of Jutland -- T. E. Lawrence -- Russia and America -- Americans in Other Armies -- Sledgehammer Blows -- Totaling the Losses -- The Advent of Oil -- Aircraft Carriers -- The World in Depression -- Natural Resources -- Rise of the Dictators -- Japan and China -- Battle of France -- So Many, So Much, So Few -- FDR's Americans -- Hunt for the Bismarck -- Operation Barbarossa -- Tora, Tora, Tora! -- Germany First -- Battle for North Africa -- Offensive in Russia -- Twin Disasters -- Japanese High Tide -- Miracle at Midway -- The Allied Invasions -- D-Day -- Breakout.
The Russian Onslaught -- Battle of the Bulge -- War in the Pacific -- Hitler's Fall -- Surrender of Japan -- China, Korea, and Vietnam -- India, Israel, and Egypt -- Summit Meetings -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- China and Vietnam -- The Six-Day War -- Vietnam -- The Explosions of 1968 -- Vietnam Again -- Yom Kippur War -- Nixon in China -- Oil and the Arabs -- The End of the Vietnam War -- Détente and the Dictators -- The Persian Gulf -- The Hostage Crisis -- Lebanon War -- Reagan and Gorbachev -- Tiananmen Square -- Fall of the Soviet Bloc -- End of the Cold War -- First Gulf War -- 9/11 -- The Future of War.
Abstract:
Brutality and fear. Heroism and sacrifice. Military history is a fascinating, complex, and often contradictory subject. War and fighting between tribes, clans, groups and countries has been with us forever. Great leaders, great villains, pivotal moments and events become transformative, causing political, social, and technological upheavals, which were often built on the foundation of war. The Handy Military History Answer Book is a captivating, concise, and convenient look at how the world, the United States, and the lives we lead today have been changed by war and the military. The weapons, leaders, soldiers, battles, tactics, strategies, blunders, technologies, and outcomes are all examined in this powerful primer on the military, its historyand world history. From early Greeks and Romans to Genghis Kahn and other great conquering militaries of the past, continuing on through the civil wars and world wars that shaped the boundaries of today's nations, and to the modern weapons, technologies, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism currently reported in the nightly news, this book investigates everything from the smallest miscalculations and maneuvers to the biggest invasions and battles, as well as the cutting-edge technologies and firepower that led to victories and helped change the world. The Handy Military History Answer Book looks at the who, the what, the why, and the how of conflicts throughout history. It answers over 1,100 questions, from the mostly widely asked to the more obscure, such as: Who cast the first stone (of human history)? Who were the "Sea Peoples?" Is there anything to the story of Ancient Troy? Could Alexander the Great have conquered the early Roman Republic? How wealthy would each of Alexander's men been had the treasure at Persepolis been divided? How many Romans lost their lives at the Battle of Cannae? Why did people
underestimate Julius Caesar when he was in his thirties? How many men, and auxiliary fighters, were there in a Roman legion? Was the Battle of Actium truly decisive? And what way? Which precious metal did the Vikings prefer above all others? Do we even have his name--Genghis Khan--right? Who employed the composite bow with greater effectiveness: the Arabs or the Turks? Why did Pope Urban II go to central France in 1095? Where did Richard the Lion-Heart get his nickname? Why on earth did Hitler code-name his invasion of Russia for a German emperor who drowned? Who was the greater wit: Voltaire or King Frederick the Great? About whom did King George II remark: "Mad, is he? Well I hope he bites some of my other generals?" What great poet spent years gathering food and wine for the Spanish Armada? What was the price for King Francis' freedom, in 1526? How long did it take to learn how to use the longbow? What was the largest of the cannon brought by the Ottoman Turks to the siege of Constantinople Who took over when Genghis Khan died (after a fall from his horse)? What did the Franciscan monks say when they returned from Karakorum? Was Napoleon really not French? Who won the Battle of the Nile, and how? Where was the world's first submarine deployed? When did George Washington have to alter all his plans: and how did he go about making the change? How many people died at the Siege of Fort Sumter? What was the worst day of the Civil War, in the Far West? When were balloons first deployed in warfare? Where did the name "Uncle Sam" come from? What signals did Paul Revere watch for on the evening of April 18, 1775? What did Rasputin have to say about the approach of the First World War? How close did Hitler come to victory at Moscow in 1941? What ten days decided the outcome of World War II? What was so special about the B-24? When did the Cold War
commence? What was the last action of the Yom Kippur War? What role did Colin Powell play in the run-up to war in Iraq?.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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