2008 Essential Guide to Military Battle Maps - Spectacular Color Maps of Historic Campaigns, Thousands of Image Files - Revolution, Civil War, World War I and II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War (CD-ROM) [CD-ROM]

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Publication Date: April 24, 2007

This updated and expanded electronic book on CD-ROM has a comprehensive collection of thousands of spectacular, fully detailed color maps of important military campaigns from ancient times to the present. The public domain graphics are presented as JPG and GIF files suitable for use in any computer program. In addition, the maps are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing of these impressive "Acrobat Atlases" on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. In addition to the main collection of maps from the U.S. Military Academy, there are maps from the Army Center for Military History. In 1938 the USMA began developing campaign atlases to aid in teaching cadets a course entitled, "History of the Military Art." Since then, the Department has produced over six atlases and more than one thousand maps, encompassing not only America's wars but global conflicts as well. The maps were created by the United States Military Academy's Department of History and are the digital versions from the atlases printed by the United States Defense Printing Agency. Wars and conflicts included in this comprehensive collection of historic maps include: Art of Ancient Warfare (Classical Greece, The Greek Hoplite in Classical Warfare, Persian Empire, Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Art of War, Hannibal Challenges the Roman Republic, Caesar and the Roman Empire, the Evolution of the Legion; the Byzantines and their Enemies, Barbarian Invasion Routes) * Dawn of Modern Warfare (The Beginning of Modern Warfare, Swiss Confederation, France during the Hundred Years War, Early Developments in Naval Warfare, Gustavus Adolphus and the Swedish Renaissance in Warfare, the Wars of Louis XIV, The Era of Frederick the Great) * Colonial Wars - French and Indian War Overview Map, The Thirteen Colonies, Colonial Expansion through 1758, Capture of Louisbourg, Battle of Monogahela, Operations in NY and Canada * The American Revolution - Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Chris

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Our news and educational discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc format makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 2429 pages
• Publisher: Progressive Management (April 24, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1422009629
• ISBN-13: 978-1422009628
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,802,892 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)