A Military History of the Western World: From the Earliest Times to the Battle of Lepanto 1/3

Major General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and historians. In this magisterial work he spans military history from the Greeks to the end of World War II, describing tactics, battle lines, the day-to-day struggles while always relating affairs on the field to the larger questions of social, political, and economic change in Western civilization. A masterpiece of scholarship and biting prose, these volumes are available for the first time in a handsome trade paperback edition. This first volume includes the rise of imperialism, the major battles, and the political and social changes from Greece, Rome, the Carolingian Empire, Byzantium, the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, to the rise of the Spanish and Ottoman Empires and the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. V. 1. From The Earliest Times To The Battle Of Lepanto -- V. 2. From The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada To The Battle Of Waterloo-- V. 3. From The American Civil War To The End Of World War Ii. By J.f.c. Fuller. Reprint. Originally Published: New York : Funk And Wagnalls, 1954-1956. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.