The book, History's Greatest Battles: Masterstroke Of War covers the whole gamut of warfare, from large sea battles involving hundreds of ships and thousands of men, to much smaller regiments who dug in and fought on long past the time when surrender would still have been considered honorable.  While superior weaponry has sometimes brought victory, other times it has been because of superior leadership and still others because of a dogged refusal of a small group of soldiers to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds.  All the great battles reviewed in this book are pivotal in history in that had any of them gone the other way, the world today would have been a far different place.  From the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, when the vastly outnumbered Athenian army stood their ground and in so doing turned back an invasion of a superior Persian force, up to the Vietnamese defeat of the French army in 1954 at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the battles in this book demonstrate that "God" is not always on the side of a superior force.  The many battles reviewed in "History's Greatest Battles: Masterstrokes Of War" are organized chronologically as follows: 1) Marathon, 490 BC; 2) Granicus, 334 BC; 3) Cannae, 216 BC; 4) Alesia, 52 BC; 5) Teutoburger Wald, AD 9; 6) Jerusalem, AD 70; 7) Chalons-sur-Marne, 451; 8) Tours, 732; 9) Hastings, 1066; 10) Crecy, 1346; 11) Agincourt, 1415; 12) Constantinople, 1453; 13) Bosworth, 1485; 14) Lepanto, 1571; 15) Blenheim, 1704; 16) Culloden, 1746; 17) Plassey, 1757; 18) Quebec, 1759; 19) Yorktown, 1781; 20) Trafalgar, 1805; 21) Austerlitz, 1805; 22) Moscow, 1812; 23) Waterloo, 1815; 24) Sebastopol, 1854-5; 25) Gettysburg, 1863; 26) Vicksburg, 1863; 27) Kut-al-Amara, 1916; 28) Baghdad, 1917; 29) Cambrai, 1917; 30) Dunkirk, 1940; 31) Tobruk, 1941; 32) Crete, 1941; 33) Alamein, 1942; 34) Stalingrad, 1942-43; 35) Kursk, 1943; 36) Kohima and Imphal, 1944; 37) D-Day, 1944; 38) Iwo Jima, 1945; 39) Berlin, 1945 and 40) Dien Bien Phu, 1954.  In addition to an informative narrative, "History's Greatest Battles: Masterstrokes Of War" includes the following features: 1) Approximately 67 black and white photographs & illustrations and 2) About 36 maps.  This book is 208 pages and is in excellent condition.  The author is Nigel Cawthorne.  Edition published in 2006.