From the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century, vying armies
have clashed over the territory stretching from the Upper Nile to
modern-day Iraq and Iran. Crossroads of War" captures five
millennia of conflict and conquest in detailed full-color maps,
accompanied by incisive, accessible commentary.
The lands of the Middle East were home to a succession of
empires Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian that rose and
declined with the fortunes of battle. Kings and generals renowned
in history bestrode the region: Nebuchadnezzar, David, Alexander
the Great, Saladin, Napoleon. The religions of Zoroastrianism,
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were born here and from the
beginning became embroiled in conflicts ranging from the Maccabean
Revolt to Muhammad s Arabian conquests to the Christian Crusades.
In the twentieth century, the Middle East witnessed the collapse of
the Ottoman Empire and played a role in the grim dramas of two
world wars, as T. E. Lawrence helped spark the Arab Revolt and
General Bernard Montgomery defeated Hitler s Desert Fox, General
Erwin Rommel, at El Alamein.
From the Yom Kippur War and Operation Desert Storm to a Global
War on Terror that still looms over the twenty-first century, the
Middle East continues to be shaped by the vagaries and vicissitudes
of military conflict. Crossroads of War" offers valuable insights
into the part of the world that first cradled civilization and then
imagined its demise in a final clash of armies at Armageddon."
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