Crossroads of Modern Warfare : Sixteen Twentieth-Century Battles that Shaped Contemporary Drew Crossroads of Modern Warfare : Sixteen Twentieth-Century Battles that Shaped Contemporary FIRST First Edition, First Printing. Published by Doubleday, 1983. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good, with some shelf/edgewear and writing/underlining throughout.Seller 553243 History We Buy Books! Collections - Libraries - Estates - Individual Titles. Message us if you have books to sell!
Drew Middleton was a journalist and author. He was a foreign correspondent, and covered World War II in Europe for both the Associated Press (until October 1942) and The New York Times. After the war, he wrote books and was an international military affairs correspondent for the Times.
I know nothing of naval strategy and tactics. This was my first encounter with such a topic and I knew what I was getting into. It's more of a dramatization, but it was interesting to see how technology plays a different role in different battles, but always, always, always has its limits...