The Essential Guide to Warfare: Star Wars - Jason Fry & Paul R. Urquhart

The Essential Guide to Warfare: Star Wars

By Jason Fry & Paul R. Urquhart

  • Release Date: 2012-04-03
  • Genre: Science Fiction
3.5 Score: 3.5 (From 70 Ratings)

Description

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE ULTIMATE INTERGALACTIC BATTLEFIELD
 
Like many a great epic, Star Wars is rooted in a rich history of armed conflict. Now, for the first time, the facts, figures, and fascinating backstories of major clashes and combatants in the vast Star Wars universe have been documented in one fully illustrated volume. Extensively researched and inventively written, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare combines action-filled narrative with encyclopedic knowledge that:
 
• explores notable military units and groups
• traces the development of significant armaments and technologies
• profiles key warship classes, ground units, and manufacturers
• provides capsule biographies of great military leaders
• presents eyewitness troopers’ accounts of combat
• plus—enough additional profiles, intel, history, and lore to span the cosmos!
 
Encompassing all of the Star Wars media, including the legendary films, the hit TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the bestselling books, comics, and videogames, and packed with original full-color artwork, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare is a conquering achievement.

Reviews

  • Great Guide

    4
    By Revan97ofSWAT
    I give Star Wars The Essential Guide to Warfare four stars for only 1 reason: It is no longer cannon. Besides that fact, the book is really great. I like the exquisite artwork, the detailed maps, the in-depth information and the pictures of the ships, weapons and characters (I know these also count as artwork but they are very helpful, especially the pictures of those ships, weapons and characters not seen in the movies or TV shows.) I purchased my copy of the book from the Star Wars Action Team rewards store and it came with the added bonus of having been signed by the author himself. It was a really good source for EU fans but I suspect it will become less and less sought after as the new official Expanded Universe emerges.

  • Beautiful book, awesome interactive pages

    5
    By steve19137
    I am a huge fan of the Star Wars EU, and having recently got an iPad, this was a no brainer. It's a beautiful interactive textbook filled with war stories and accompanying artwork. The art is incredible. It's very detailed and it adds a lot to the equally engaging stories that book tells. If you love Star Wars, then this is a book that you should certainly get. Now, some of the other reviews complain about it not opening and such. You must note that you can only read this on an iPad. I read this on an iPad 3, and it works very well.

  • Will not Sync with Iphone 5

    1
    By Jf080
    Im using Ibooks and have purchased many books on it. This book shows up on my Computer but will not transfer to Iphone 5

  • Won't sync up with my Ipad

    1
    By Gonzo7
    Very frustrating!

  • Can't wait, but I have to?

    1
    By Scooterama17
    Can't wait to read it…as a matter of fact, I've been waiting 30 minutes for it to open in my iPad2. Yes, the download completed.

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