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Banks, Arthur. World Atlas of Military History. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1973- .
SML Reference G1030 B27 (LC)
Library has: vol. 1: to 1500; vol. 3: 1861-1945.
Maps for wars, battles, and defense systems. Indexes of battles, individuals, groups of peoples, and places.

Hartman, Tom and John Mitchell. A world atlas of military history, 1945-1984. New York: Da Capo Press, c1985.
SML Reference G1046 R1 +H378 1985 (LC)
SML Map Collection, Atlases G1046 R1 +H378 1984 (LC)

Braun, Georg. Civitates orbis terrarum. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1966.
SML Map Collection D12 B73 1572A

Braun & Hogenberg's The City Maps of Europe: A Selection of 16th Century Town Plans & Views. Ed. John Goss. London: Studio Editions, 1991.
SML Map Collection, Atlases G1799 A1 +B73 1991 (LC)

Gilbert, Martin. First World War Atlas. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
SML Reference G1037 G55 1971 (LC)
SML Map Collection, Atlases G1037 G55 (LC)

-----. Recent History Atlas: 1870 to the Present Day. Cartography by John R. Flower. New York: Macmillan, c1966.

McEvedy, Colin. The Penguin Atlas of Recent History: Europe Since 1815. Harmondsworth, England; New York: Penguin Books, 1982.

Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. London: Bloomsbury, 1989.
SML Stacks D743.5 +M477 1989

Muir, Ramsay. Muir's historical atlas: medieval and modern. Eleventh edition. Ed. R. F. Treharne and Harold Fullard. London: G. Philip, 1969.
SML Reference G1030 +M85 1969 (LC)
SML Map Collection, Atlases E1030 +M85 1969
First edition published in 1911 under title: Philips' new historical atlas for students.

Philip's atlas of exploration. London: G. Philip's & Son, 1996.
SML Reference G1036 +G46X 1996 (LC)

Pitt, Barrie and Frances Pitt. The Chronological Atlas of World War II. London: Macmillan, 1989.
SML Map Collection, Atlases G1038 +P6 1989B (LC)
Offers a month-by-month account of the war. For each month, a double-page spread gives: a world map showing advances and contractions in the territory controlled by the Germans and Japanese; more detailed maps for specific battles; and a summary of military events. Also includes essays on campaigns or political history. Index of place names divided by Eastern, European and Middle Eastern, and Pacific fronts; index of political and military names and events. (Balay, DA211)

Shepherd, William R. Historical Atlas. Ninth edition. NY: Barnes & Noble, c1964.
SML Stacks G1030 S53 1967 (LC)
For many years the standard and most used historical atlas. Covers from 1450 BCE to 1964.

The Times Atlas of the Second World War. Ed. John Keegan. London: Times Books, 1989.
SML Reference G1038 +T64 1989 (LC)
Covers the war in maps, charts, photographs, and brief essays, beginning with Europe after the First World War and continuing through 1945. The arrangement is roughly chronological, then area by area. Sections for war economies, casualties, and resistance in Eastern Europe. Bibliography, glossary, lists of abbreviations and of battles (locating them); index of place names; chronology for each area. (Balay, DA212)

The Times Atlas of World History. Fourth edition. Ed. Geoffrey Parker. Maplewood, NJ: Hammond, 1993.
SML Reference G1030 +T54 1993 (LC)
Presents a view of history which is worldwide in conception and presentation. Plates and text are grouped in seven main sections: (1) The world of early man; (2) The first civilizations; (3) The classical civilizations of Eurasia; (4) The world of divided regions; (5) The world of the emerging West; (6) The age of European dominance; (7) The age of global civilization. Glossary,  index, chronology.

The Yale Map Collection, Sterling Memorial Library
URL: http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/index.html

A note on the annotations:

Balay = Guide to reference books. Edited by Robert Balay. 11th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996.
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Sheehy = Guide to reference books. Edited by Eugene P. Sheehy. 10th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1986.
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