Author: Stephenson, Michael (ed.),
Title: BATTLEGROUNDS - Geography and the History of Warfare.
Description: National Geographic, Washington, ND (copyright 2003, 288pp, pictorial double title, maps in text, large format (10 x 7.5 inches approx.), red paper covered boards backed with black cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorated and lettered in silver upper board, decorative head and tail bands, pictorial dustwrapper, an exploration by some of the foremost military historians on the critical role of geography on the outcome of a selection of 38 battles from history, from ancient times including Issus, Marathon and Masada, through many examples in the intervening centuries to Passchendale, Kasserine Pass, Chosin and Desert Saber, a little bumped at upper tips, edges stanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a near fine dustwrapper,

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