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Published
Belknap Press, December 2014
ISBN
9780674598492
Format
Hardcover, 288 pages

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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. Ian Barnes's Crossroads of War> captures five millennia of conflict and conquest in detailed full-color maps, accompanied by incisive, accessible commentary.

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