Table of Contents

Terrain in Military History: An Introduction.- ‘Markings on the Land’ and Early Medieval Warfare in the British Isles.- Geology and Warfare in England and Wales 1450–1660.- Battles on Chalk: the Geology of Battle in Southern England during the First Civil War 1643–1644.- Terrain and Guerrilla Warfare in Navarre, 1808–1814.- Effective use of Terrain in the American Civil War: The Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862.- Tullahoma: Terrain and Tactics in the American Civil War.- The Mountain is their Monument: An Archaeological Approach to the Landscape of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.- Maps and Decisions: Buller South and North of the Tugela, 1899–1900.- The Thirty-Years War, 1914–1945: Mapping the Battlefields of the Past for the Construction of the European Future.- Terrain and the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915.- British, French, German Mapping and Survey on the Western Front in the First World War.- Terrain and the Messines Ridge, Belgium, 1914–1918.- Zero Hour: Historical Note on the British Underground War in Flanders, 1915–1917.- Mud Blood, and Wood: BEF Operational and Combat Logistico-Engineering during the Battle of Third Ypres, 1917.- Across the River: Interpreting the Battle of Ebro or Battlefields as a Didactic Resource.- Fortification of Island Terrain: Second World War German Military Engineering on the Channel Island of Jersey, a Classic Area of British Geology.- Piracy on the High Desert: the Long-Range Desert Group 1940–1943.- The Geology of the Battle of Monte Cassino, 1944.- Terrain as a Factor in the Battle of Normandy, 1944.- Airfield Country: Terrain, Land-Use and the Air Defence of Britain, 1939–1945.

Reviews

"Fields of Battles is scholarly, enjoyable to read and certainly relevant for a wide range of academics and professionals. The book will be of interest to many geographers."
(The Professional Geographer June (2003)