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Title: Indispensible
Review: I can only echo previous reviews here. If you should get only one military atlas on this subject, this is the one. Along with the West Point Atlas of American Wars vols I & II (don't be deceived by the "American" in the title; volume II includes all the campaigns of WWI & WWII, not just the ones the U.S. participated in), this atlas is a must for the serious military historian. As previously stated, reading military history without maps is a frustrating and ultimately worthless enterprise--a downright stupid and rude thing for an author to do (and its done too often!). These maps are "clean" and easy to read--not cluttered with unnecessary junk. Esposito's prose is terse, yet highly undertanding of the essentials of the situation. He has a fluid understanding of the interrelations between the political, strategic, operational and tactical elements of a situation.
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