The Decisive Battles of World History

Bibliography

Davis, Paul. 100 Decisive Battles from Ancient Times to the Present. New

York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Well-balanced list of battles, with

good, brief descriptions of each.

De Souza, Philip, Waldemar Heckel, and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones. The Greeks

at War: From Athens to Alexander. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2004. Less

on Plataea than on Greek equipment and tactics during this era. A nice

introduction to many of the debates about hoplite warfare.

Díaz, Bernal. The Conquest of New Spain. New York: Penguin, 1963.

Translation of the eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by one of

the conquistadors who participated. An amazing story.

'LI¿H%DQG*:LQLXVFoundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415–

1580. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977. Detailed

study of early Portuguese overseas expansion, including accounts of the key

battles along the coast of India.

Donner, F. The Early Islamic Conquests. Princeton: Princeton University

Press, 1981. Standard scholarly account. Stronger on the overall historical

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Dunlop, D. “A New Source of Information on the Battle of Talas or Atlakh.”

Ural-Altaische Jahrbucher, vol. 36 (1965), pp. 326–330. Very useful article

that gives complete translations of the main Arabic sources (al-Athir and al-

Dhahabi) for the battle of Talas.

Dwyer, William. The Day Is Ours! New York: Viking, 1983. Older but still

good account of the battles of Trenton and Princeton that incorporates many

nice quotes from primary sources.

Engels, D. Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Exactly what the title claims:

an innovative study of how Alexander kept his army supplied and maintained

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