Battlescapes: The Impact of Terrain on War and Military Strategy

By: Rotherham, Ian D.

This comprehensive study explores the landscapes and heritage of past conflicts along with defensive and offensive structures.

Throughout history, nature - its resources, landscape and terrain - has shaped the tactics of warfare and determined its outcomes. From the medieval English Fens to the 20th century Iraqi Marsh Arabs, landscapes have fostered resistance and dissention. Harnessed by people under threat the landscape has influenced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399066110
• ISBN13: 9781399066112
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 440 Pages