Wars on Map
Articles
Each of these pages is a timeline and a map of one war, written to the same rules as the atlas itself: dates from the sources, casualty figures as published ranges rather than round numbers, and an explicit note wherever the geography is an approximation.
- Second World War
World War II Map & Timeline: 1939–1945
A year-by-year map and timeline of the Second World War, from the invasion of Poland to the Japanese surrender, with the sourced dates and casualty ranges behind each phase.
Read ↗ - First World War
World War I Map & Timeline: 1914–1918
A map and timeline of the First World War: how the fronts formed in 1914, why the western front then barely moved for three years, and the sourced casualty ranges for the whole war.
Read ↗ - Operation Overlord
D-Day Map: 6 June 1944, Hour by Hour
An hour-by-hour map and timeline of D-Day: the airborne drops before dawn, the five beaches and their separate H-Hours, the German response, and what had and had not been achieved by midnight.
Read ↗ - The Nazi-Soviet war
Eastern Front Map: Germany vs the Soviet Union, 1941–1945
A map and timeline of the Eastern Front from Operation Barbarossa to the fall of Berlin: Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, Bagration, and the casualty figures behind the largest land war in history.
Read ↗ - United States, 1861–1865
American Civil War Map & Timeline: 1861–1865
A map and timeline of the American Civil War: the eastern and western theatres, the blockade, the campaigns of each year, and why the death toll was revised upward from 620,000 to about 750,000.
Read ↗ - Europe, 1803–1815
Napoleonic Wars Map: 1803–1815
A map and timeline of the Napoleonic Wars, from the collapse of the Peace of Amiens to Waterloo: the coalitions, the Peninsular War, the invasion of Russia, and the casualty estimates.
Read ↗ - Death tolls and their limits
Deadliest Wars in History: Ranked and Mapped
The deadliest wars in history, with the full estimate ranges and the reason each range is wide. Includes the per-capita ranking, which puts a completely different set of wars at the top.
Read ↗ - Korea, 1950–1953
Korean War Map & Timeline: 1950–1953
A map and timeline of the Korean War: the four changes of hands of Seoul, the Pusan Perimeter, Inchon, the Chinese intervention, and the two years of static fighting before the 1953 armistice.
Read ↗ - Indochina, 1955–1975
Vietnam War Map & Timeline: 1955–1975
A map and timeline of the Vietnam War: the 17th parallel, the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos and Cambodia, Tet, Vietnamization, and the sourced casualty ranges for all sides.
Read ↗ - Second World War
Major battles of World War II — interactive maps
All 23 battle and campaign layers in the atlas, in date order, each with its outcome, its cost and the account it was built from.
Open ↗ - Catalogue
Every war on the map: a chronological list, 1816–2014
All 740 records in date order, with participants, source regions and the periods each war was recorded as being fought.
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