This comprehensive chronology details all of the world wars, leaders and weapons, with related developments in science, technology, the arts and medicine. From the invention of the slingshot to the creation of the atom bomb, from Julius Caesar to Winston Churchill, from the Siege of Troy to the civil war in Yugoslavia, military history is presented in an easy-to-follow format that allows links and comparisons to events and people across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and South America, Asia and the Pacific.