Famous Battles of Pre-Modern History

"It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it."      - General Robert E. Lee 

This is a book consisting of illustrated articles concerning famous battles prior to the twentieth century.

From Marathon in the B.C.E. to Rorke's Drift in the late nineteenth century, the events are brought to life  in an informative, easy to read and entertaining style.

Learn about the real Spartacus, and William Wallace's battle at Stirling Bridge. Witness the events at Waterloo and the events leading up to it. Read about the Alamo and Gettysburg and watch the battle unfold through words and pictures.

Read how an army of Zulus annihilated more than 1,000 British soldiers at Isandlawana,  but was held up by a small force of less than 150 men at Rorke's Drift. What really happened at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Did Travis draw "the line"? How did the Greeks, led by 300 Spartans under Leonides confound a huge Persian army at Thermopylae?

Learn this and more!

"The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava" by William Simpson (1855)