More than two hundred maps illustrate general political and military strategy, major campaigns, and important stages in naval and air conflicts and the war on the Western and Eastern fronts.
With a large index, concise commentary, and dozen of charts of statistics, this book can serve as a basic reference and a unique perspective on a turbulent era of military history.
The assembly of an archive of longitudinal data on the world's nation-states was undertaken by the Center for Comparative Political Research in 1968, with computer-facilitated procedures for the stora
