Bridges of Battle: Famous Battlefield Actions at Bridges and River Crossings

From more than 2,000 years of military history, Donald Featherstone has selected some one hundred examples of battles centered on river crossings. They range in size from small-scale actions such as the battle for Powick Bridge in the early months of the English Civil War to massive, army-scale operations including the final crossing of the Rhine at Remagen during the Second World War.The range of contributions, including expert analyses and eyewitness accounts often enables the reader to see both sides of the story - those of the defender and the attacker - and to compare battles fought in similar circumstances, but with very different weapons, across the centuries.