From the relief of Ladysmith during the Boer War to the decisive use of high technology and AirLand doctrines during Operation Desert Storm, here are more than forty gripping accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Anthony Farrar-Hockley. John Pimlott, John Frost and John Laffin.