In Heroes' Footsteps: A Walker's Guide to the Battlefields of the World

2025-06-13T12:46:11-04:00

Vendor: Heritage Books, Inc.
Type: Book
Price: 24.95

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The second in a series that uses geography and topography to bring military history alive.

Experience the immediacy of war's landscapes through dramatic photography, illustrations, and maps, and evoke the true experience of combat. Be inspired to walk the ground on which these epoch-making events were decided.

Discover what it was like to be pinned down in the city of Vicksburg for 47 days, starving and under constant shellfire bombardment day and night. Walk the entire length of the mighty walls of the historic city of Constantinople and marvel at the effort it must have taken to breach its defenses.

It combines historic photographs, illustrations, and eyewitness accounts of each battle, with contemporary photographs of how it is now. Detailed maps and suggested routes help you retrace the footsteps of may of history's most valiant heroes.

Tim Newark

2001, 9.25" x 12", hard cover, index, 160 pp.

ISBN: 9780764152483

111-N5248