A visual journey through 5,000 years of combat.
Sir Tony Robinson is an award-winning writer, presenter, and actor, and the UK's foremost face of popular history. His television credits include Time Team (Channel 4), Blackadder (BBC1), The Worst Jobs In History (Channel 4), Walking Through History(Channel 4), Me and My Mum (ABC), Tony Robinson's Coast to Coast (Channel 5), Britain's Ancient Tracks (Channel 4), and more. As a children's television writer, he has won two RTS awards, a BAFTA, and the International Prix Jeunesse, and his work includes Central TV's Fat Tulip's Garden, Odysseus - the Greatest Hero of Them All, and Blood and Honey. He has also made a range of television documentaries, written 30 children's books, winning the Blue Peter Factual Book Award twice, and several books for adults, including his autobiography No Cunning Plan. In 2012 he was made a Fellow of Cardiff University, and he has been awarded honorary doctorates and masters' degrees by several leading universities. He is an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society, and received a knighthood in 2013.
Any map fan will have an absolute field day with Battles That
Changed History, as its many sumptuously crafted maps intricately
detail the battles in question with beautiful clarity. This is
without a doubt one of DK's finest history offerings in several
years.
*All About History*
Some depictions of human conflict acquire such a charm over
centuries, we half forget we are seeing a bloodbath. Others have an
enduring power to appal. Recent documentary photographs strike a
chill. This lavishly illustrated chronicle of warfare explores epic
battles that turned the historic tide - from Manzikert to Marston
Moor to the Middle East - while reminding us that nothing really
changes.
*Saga Magazine*
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