Maps of War (Hardcover) - Baynton-Williams, Ashley & Baynton-Williams, Miles

A Lavish collection of 150 Contemporary maps of the World's greatest Battles. Gaze across history's bloodiest battlefields, as beautifully realized by the cartographers of the time. From the depiction of the battle of Pinkie Cleugh between England and Scotland in 1547, the earliest map printed in the British Isles, to chartings of the American War of Independence, and from plans of the advance of the British fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar to the trench maps of World War I, this unique collection highlights the extraordinary influence cartography has had on the nature of warfare.

Hardcover. English. Quercus. 2007. ISBN: 1847242073. 223 pp. Good with dw. Book No: 2507392