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glossy full color illustrated hardbound folio ~ 2º. very large & heavy ("coffee table" size book), international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover (cover of book and dustwrapper cover are identical in appearance). fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. 1" tear on front near spine top, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition (FPu2008). first printing ( # 1 in # line). ~ Please Note: book is larger than scanner so the photos are a bit cropped. illustrated endpapers. full color illustrated ½ title & frontis. 431p+copyright page. glossy pages throughout. almost every page illustrated in full color. further reading. picture credits. index. world history. biography. politics. military history. geo~politics.~ Compiled by a distinguished team of historians (including Robin Lane Fox, Tom Holland, Adrian Goldsworthy, John Julius Norwich, Jonathan Sumption and Felipe Fernandez~Armesto) working under the general editorship of Andrew Roberts, The Art of War is an authoritative account of the lives and careers of the greatest military commanders of the period 1500 BC ~ AD 1600, from Alcibiades to Attila, from Hannibal to Henry V, and from Trajan to Tamerlane. Each commander is profiled in a concise and informative 3000~word article which not only brings its subject vividly to life in a lively, fact~driven narrative, but also analyses and assesses his tactical and strategic gifts. These biographies are accompanied by 'battle features' or 'campaign features' ~ embellished by full~colour battle plans or campaign maps ~ focusing on the commanders' greatest battlefield achievements. As accessible and informative as it is rigorous and scholarly. With its companion volume The Art of War: Great Commanders of the Modern World, it forms an indispensable guide to the greatest generals that history has known. = THUTMOSE III Joyce Tyldesley /RAMESSES II Joyce Tyldesley /JOSHUA Martin van Creveld /KING DAVID Martin van Creveld /TIGLATH~PILESER III Doyne Dawson /HASTEIN John Haywood /WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR John Gillingham /BOHEMOND I Jonathan Phil /FREDERICK BARBA ROSSA Jonathan Phillips /GENGHIS KHAN Justin Marozzi /SUN Tzu JonathanFenby /CYRUS THE GREAT Tom Holland /LEONIDAS Ben Dupre/ THEMISTOCLES Robin Waterfield / THUCYDIDES Andrew Roberts /KUBLAI KHAN Justin Marozzi /ALEXANDER NEVSKY Isabel de Madariaga /BAIBARS Jonathan Phillips /ARMINIUS Adrian Murdoch /TAMERLANE Justin Maroni /THE BLACK PRINCE Jonathan Sumption/TRAJAN Adrian Goldsworthy /ZHUGE LIANG Jonathan Fenbv /ALCIBIADES Robin Waterfield /XENOPHON Robin Waterfield /PHILIP II OF MACEDON Robin Lane Fox /ALEXANDER THE GREAT Robin Lane Fox /HENRY V Robert Hardy /JOAN OF ARC Anne Curry /SULTAN MEHMET II John Julius Norwich /HERNAN CORTES Felipe Fernandez~Armesto/ALARIC I John Haywood /AETIUS John Haywood /ATTILA John Haywood /THEODORIC John Haywood /HANNIBAL Tom Holland /SCIPIO AFRICANUS Adrian Goldworthy/JUDAH MACCABEUS Martin van Creveld /CLOVIS John Haywood /SULEYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT John Julius Norwich / GONZALO DE CORDOBA Niccolo Capponi /BELISARIUS John Julius Norwich /MUHAMMAD Efraim Karsh /AKBAR THE GREAT Franci Robinson /POMPEY Adrian Goldsworthy /JULIUS CAESAR Adrian Goldsworth /CHARLEMAGNE John Haywood / ODA NOBUNAGA Stephen Turnbull / ALFRED THE GREAT Justin Pollard.
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