This is a 'coffee table' history book. By that I mean its meant to sit on your coffee table for people to pick up and look at the pictures and be impressed that you have a history book. However, if you actually want to learn something, this is worse than 'History for Dummies'. The fact that these battles occurred and the dates are about all you can get out of it. The information on the disasters is incomplete, at times confusing and misleading and sometimes inaccurate, the maps aren't much better though they look nice. Just don't bother. ( )