Books by Charles Messenger and Complete Book Reviews
Charles Messenger, Author . Thames & Hudson $34.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-500-25123-2
The 178 illustrations of this annotated atlas include 71 full-color maps, which stand out among its rather indifferent images. A veteran of Britain's Royal Tank Regiment and Territorial Army, historian and defense analyst Messenger (The Second...
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Charles Messenger, Author HarperCollins Publishers $31 (0p) ISBN 978-0-00-255546-3
Based on a 26-part BBC-TV series, Messenger's book is a broad overview of history's bloodiest century, from the Boer War to the 1994 massacres in Rwanda. Lavishly illustrated, the book covers world wars, wars of national liberation, civil wars,...
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H. P. Willmott, Author, Charles Messenger, Author, Robin Cross, Author DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $40 (319p) ISBN 978-0-7566-0521-6
The book jacket describes the war as history's most dramatic event, but there's very little drama in this lavishly illustrated, informative but rarely incisive survey. Military historians Willmott and Messenger and journalist Cross provide a...
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