"Rarely has anyone attempted so broad a spread of historical coverage. I wouldn't have dared and many who do flounder into the morass of banality. Morvan, however, doesn't just write about his subject, he feels it, drawing on a deep well of experience and great breadth of knowledge. If history is your "thing" then you need this one on your shelves!" -John Sadler, battlefields tour guide, lecturer at the University of Sunderland Centre For Lifelong Learning, and author of numerous military history publications ". Churchill explained that to understand history's most consequential battles, historians must see the battlefields for themselves. But even Churchill could not have seen them all. He would surely have devoured this magnificent and incomparably comprehensive volume." -Alan Axelrod, author of The Battle of the Somme and Miracle at Belleau Wood: The Birth of the Modern U.

S. Marine Corps ". Battlefields is a singular achievement. Through his expert lens, photographer Yan Morvan takes us on a military history journey to nearly every corner of the globe, from the fields of ancient warfare to iconic Civil War, World War II, Vietnam battlefields and beyond. I am awestruck by the comprehensiveness and artistic majesty of this fine book. I found it to be incredibly moving and I believe you will too." -John C. McManus, Ph.

D., Curators' Distinguished Professor, U.S. Military History, Misssouri S&T, Author of The Dead and Those About to Die and Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II " Battlefields is the result of an extensive journey through time and space. Yan Morvan has visited the sites of 250 of history's major and minor conflict sites, ranging from the Israelite conquest of Canaan to the 2011 Libyan Civil War, and presents these in 430 striking photographs. Few of the images show war in any obvious sense, but they are all the more powerful for that. All question what these seemingly tranquil, sometimes even mundane locations mean for us today and in doing so invite us to reflect on the tangled relationship between memory, war, and the physical environment." -Peter H.

Wilson, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford "Yan Morvan's Battlefields is an interesting addition to the literature detailing how battlefields look now. His work brings the sharp eye of the photographer to these scenes, well-known in military history and through accounts of the fighting. The juxtaposition, in some cases, of the modern world either alongside or on top of these sites is especially poignant." -Dr. Rob Havers, noted military historian and President of the George C. Marshall Foundation.