Moment of battle the twenty clashes that changed the world by Lacey, James

Table of Contents: “…Marathon: Athens saves Western civilization (490 BC) -- Gaugamela : Alexander creates a new world (311 BC) -- Zama: an empire in the balance (202 BC) -- Teutoburger Wald: the division of Europe (9 AD) -- Adrianople: the end of Roman supremacy (378 AD) -- Yarmuk (636 AD) -- Hastings (1066 AD) -- The Spanish Armada (1588 AD) -- Breitenfeld (1631 AD) -- Annus mirabilis (1759 AD) -- Saratoga (1777 AD) -- Trafalgar (1805 AD) -- Vicksburg (1863 AD) -- The Marne (1914 AD) -- The Battle of Britain (1940 AD) -- Midway (1942 AD) -- Kursk (1943 AD) -- Normandy (1944 ad) -- Dien Bien Phu (1954 AD) -- Operations peach (2003 AD).…”

Crucible of war the Seven Year's War and of fate of empire in British North America 1754-1766 by Anderson, Fred 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The origins of the Seven Years' War, 1450-1754 -- Defeat, 1754-1755 -- Nadir, 1756-1757 -- Turning point, 1758 -- Annus Mirabilis, 1759 -- Conquest completed, 1760 -- Vexed victory, 1761-1763 -- Crisis and reform, 1764 -- Crisis compounded, 1765-1766 -- Empire preserved? …”