Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: P-ZContains entries that provide information on battles that have taken place on fields of war from ancient times to the early twenty-first century, each including the name and date of the battle, the name of the war, the context in which it was fought, the opposing commanders, and outcome of the fighting; arranged alphabetically from P to Z. |
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| Title | Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: P-Z Volume 3 of Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-first Century, Tony Jaques, ISBN 0313335362, 9780313335365 |
| Author | Tony Jaques |
| Editor | Tony Jaques |
| Contributor | Dennis E. Showalter |
| Publisher | Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0313335397, 9780313335396 |
| Length | 1354 pages |
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