Explore historic battles and military events that had a lasting impact on the people and cultures of the world. Important sieges of the ancient and modern world are included, and their impact on subsequent regional or world history is discussed. The series reflects an international approach, including sieges from North America, Russia, and the Near and Far East. The siege of Petersburg, Virginia, combined a military blockade with the active and continuous operation of military troops.

Recounts the construction, battles, and historical impact of the Civil War battleships, the Monitor and the Virginia, known to Union forces as the Monitor and the Merrimack, focusing on the Battle of Hampton Roads.

This series examines the important issue of the significance of arbitrary borders in world history These studies describe arbitrary borders as places where people interact differently from the way they would had the boundary not existed Analytical, but easy to read, these brief histories will appeal to a broad sweep of readership The Iron Curtain symbolised the Cold War - the peaceful but highly sensitive 40-year stand-off between the Soviet Union and the US and its allies. Discover its story from it origins after WWII to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.