The Decisive Battles of World History

Bibliography

Brett-James, Antony. Europe against Napoleon: The Leipzig Campaign.

New York: Macmillan, 1970. Extensive collection of primary source

accounts covering not just the battle but also the events leading up to it.

Bruce, John. The Bayeux Tapestry. London: Bracken Books, 1987. Outdated

text, but it contains complete color plates of the entire tapestry.

Bryant, Anthony. Sekigahara 1600. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1995.

Probably the best accessible account in English of the campaign and Battle

of Sekigahara.

Cameron, Alan. The Last Pagans of Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2011. Up-to-date scholarly study of the 4th century that

includes a chapter on the Battle of Frigidus. Cameron argues that the sources

have exaggerated the pagan/Christian nature of this battle.

Cannadine, David. Trafalgar in History: A Battle and Its Afterlife. New

York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Interesting treatment that looks not only at

the battle itself but also at what it has come to represent.

Casson, L. Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World. Baltimore: Johns

Hopkins University Press, 1995. Scholarly but accessible survey of all types

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Chasteen, John. Americanos: Latin America’s Struggle for Independence.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. A good account of the complex story

of the independence movements from Chile to Mexico. Much stronger on

tracing political events than on military history but helpful for understanding

the context of the battles.

Clark, Alan. %DUEDURVVD 7KH 5XVVLDQ*HUPDQ &RQÀLFW ±. New

York: Quill, 1985. Solid overview of the entire story of the Eastern Front in

World War II, from the invasion of Russia to the fall of Berlin.

Connolly, Peter. Greece and Rome at War. London: Black Cat, 1981. Well-

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