Battles of World War II & American Wars

HistoryMaps has been very busy in the last few weeks, releasing new interactive maps visualizing the:

• Battles of World War II
• Battles of the American Revolution
• Battles of the American Civil War

Nono Umasy's HistoryMaps website is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in world history, offering hundreds of interactive timelines and maps that explore historical events across the scope of human civilization.

The latest three interactive maps on HistoryMaps provide a mapped guide to the battles of World War II, the American Revolution and the American Civil War. On each of these individual maps the locations of important and significant battles are displayed on an interactive map and listed chronologically in the map sidebar.

You can click on the individual battle markers on the map to read the battle's synopsis in the sidebar timeline (each of which includes a link to the battle's Wikipedia entry). The map sidebar also includes a timeline control which allows you to filter the battles shown on the map by year. Other controls allow you to filter the battles by 'Naval', 'Land' and 'Sieges' (and on the World War II map by 'Aerial').

On the cartography side the underlying maps seem to use chronologically accurate borders. For example the country borders for the World War II map includes Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, East Prussia and other historical geopolitical entities which no longer exist.