Crossroads of WarFrom the Bronze Age to the twenty first century, vying armies have clashed over the territory stretching from the Upper Nile to modern day Iraq and Iran. Crossroads of War captures five millennia of conflict and conquest in detailed full color maps, accompanied by incisive, accessible commentary. The lands of the Middle East were home to a succession of empires Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Persian that rose and declined with the fortunes of