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Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counter attack, an unexpected maneuver, a stubborn refusal to be beaten and the impossible victory is won. In the ten dramatic episodes in this book, military historian Bryan Perrett revisits battles from the Peninsula War of 1811 to Vietnam in 1967, via colonial action in two world wars.

Keegan offers us a new history of war through the prism of intelligence, decisions that went into waging war before the benefit of aerial surveillance and electronic communications. In the past century, espionage and decryption have changed the face of battle and the decisions that are made in war.

Covers world events including Bonaparte's Empire, industrial Britain, liberation for Latin America, the opening of China and Southern Africa in the 19th century.

This last volume in Bauer's history series covers the major historical events of the last 150 years, from the Britain's empire under Queen Victoria to the presidency of Nelson Mandela.

There was a time when the sight of a Western Union delivery boy coming up the walk filled Americans with a sense of excitement or trepidation. Between its invention in the mid-nineteenth century and its post-1960s relegation to money transfer and congratulations, the telegraph served as the primary medium for urgent messages. Telegram! collects the most poignant and revealing examples of this earliest form of instant communication. Organized into...

Describes the development of world civilizations in the industrial age, including the Napoleonic empire, the decline of the Ottomans, European colonization of Africa, the founding of Australia, and the expansion of the United States.