Cowley, Robert

This chronicle of warfare combines compelling historical narrative with the best of contemporary scholarship to provide essential information on major events and battles, commanders and theorists, weaponry, strategy and tactics.

Would Western civilisation exist if the Greeks had been overpowered by the Persians? What might have been if the Spanish Armada had won? This is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events of the last 3000 years.