The book, Turning The tide Of War: 50 Battles that Changed the Course of Modern History, explores 50 key battles that have taken place over the past 200 years.  This book represents a fascinating overview of how warfare has evolved from an era of small scale localized conflicts to an age of mechanized, high-mobility battles on a global scale.  The author reviews each battle in detail, within the wider historical context, with the help of maps and battle plans, eyewitness accounts and rare archival photography.  In addition to an Introduction, this book reviews the following 50 battles: 1) Valmy, 1792; 2) Assaye, 1803; 3) Trafalgar, 1805; 4) Auterlitz, 1805; 5) Waterloo, 1815; 6) Mexico City, 1847; 7) Gettysburg, 1863; 8) Sedan, 1870; 9) Isandlwana, 1879; 10) Geok Tepe, 1881; 11) San Juan Hill, 1898; 12) Omdurman, 1898; 13) Tsushima, 1905; 14) First Battle Of The Marne, 1914; 15) Gallipoli, 1915; 16) The Brusilov Offensive, 1916; 17) The Somme, 1916; 18) Ypres, 1917; 19) Cambrai, 1917; 20) Germany's 'Black Day', 1918; 21) Nanking, 1937; 22) France, 1940; 23) The Battle Of Britain, 1940; 24) Crete, 1941; 25) Barbarosa, 1941; 26) Pearl Harbor, 1941; 27) Singapore, 1942; 28) Midway, 1942; 29) Stalingrad, 1942; 30) El Alamein, 1942; 31) Battle Of The Atlantic, 1943; 32) Kursk, 1943; 33) Tarawa, 1943; 34) Cassino, 1944; 35) Kohima, 1944; 36) D-Day, 1944; 37) St. Lo, 1944; 38) Leyte Gulf, 1944; 39) Ardennes, 1944; 40) Okinawa, 1945; 41) Berlin, 1945; 42) Inchon, 1950; 43) Dien Bien Phu, 1954; 44) Six Day War, 1967; 45) The Tet Offensive, 1968; 46) Port Stanley, 1983; 47) Kabul, 1988; 48) Desert Storm, 1991; 49) Mogadishu, 1993 and 50) Krajina, 1995.  "Turning The Tide Of War: 50 Battles that Changed the course of Modern History" also includes a Bibliography, Index and Acknowledgements.  In addition to a comprehensive narrative, this book includes the following features: 1) Approximately 129 black and white photographs; 2) 22 color photographs; 3) 9 black and white illustrations; 4) About 41 color illustrations and 5) Approximately 134 detailed maps.  This book is 200 pages and is in excellent condition.  The author is Tim Newark.  Edition published in 2001.