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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Battles |
| ISBN | : 9781904687641 |
Provides an information packed, highly illustrated guide to 20 battles of the medieval period, including Hastings, Hattin, Leignitz, Lake Peipus, Bannockburn, Crecy, Agincourt, Constantinople, and many more. Includes full-color tactical maps for each battle, showing the reader the dispositions and movements of the opposing armies at a glance.
| Author | : Jurgen Brauer |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 425 |
| Release | : 2008-11-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0226071650 |
Castles, Battles, and Bombs reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics—with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle Ages seems almost inevitable: though stunningly expensive, a strong castle was far cheaper to maintain than a standing army. The authors also reexamine the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II and provide new insights into France’s decision to develop nuclear weapons. Drawing on these examples and more, Brauer and Van Tuyll suggest lessons for today’s military, from counterterrorist strategy and military manpower planning to the use of private military companies in Afghanistan and Iraq. "In bringing economics into assessments of military history, [the authors] also bring illumination. . . . [The authors] turn their interdisciplinary lens on the mercenary arrangements of Renaissance Italy; the wars of Marlborough, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon; Grant's campaigns in the Civil War; and the strategic bombings of World War II. The results are invariably stimulating."—Martin Walker, Wilson Quarterly "This study is serious, creative, important. As an economist I am happy to see economics so professionally applied to illuminate major decisions in the history of warfare."—Thomas C. Schelling, Winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics
| Author | : Andrew W. Boardman |
| Publisher | : Alan Sutton Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Originally published in 1994, an illustrated study of the Battle of Towton in 1461 between the armies of York and Lancashire, which discusses what drove the armies to fight at Towton, and examines the legends and the possible truth about the battle.
| Author | : Chris McNab |
| Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 106 |
| Release | : 2017-12-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1502632470 |
The battles waged from 476 to 1485 demonstrate the complexity and importance of the medieval era. Combatants included the English, French, Muslims, Mongols, and crusaders, and their victories and failures laid the foundations of modern history. This book brings battles like the Battle of Tours and the Battle of Agincourt into sharp focus, and gives context to the warfare of the Middle Ages.
| Author | : John Keegan |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1983-01-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1440673993 |
John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle -- a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow cloud at the battle of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme. The Face of Battle is a companion volume to John Keegan's classic study of the individual soldier, The Mask of Command: together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.
| Author | : J. F. Verbruggen |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780851155708 |
He begins by analysing the sources for our knowledge of the military history of the period, assessing their reliability: some chroniclers exaggerate, others are careful observers or have access to official records. There follows an examination of the constituent parts of the medieval army, knights and footsoldiers, equipment and terms of service, behaviour on the field, and psychology, before the problematic question of medieval tactics is addressed through analysis of accounts of a series of major battles. Strategy is discussed in the context of these battles: whether to seek battle, fight a defensive war, or attempt a war of conquest.
| Author | : John H. Beeler |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2018-08-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 150172682X |
Feudal military practices, which are as varied as those of modern times, are surveyed here for the first time. The author treats in detail the bases on which feudal service was exacted, the mustering and composition of armies and their subsequent operations in the field, and the qualifications of their commanders. He discusses military feudalism as it originated and developed in the Frankish kingdom of the Carolingians and as it operated during the early Capetian period in the Ile de France and the feudal principalities of northern France. He then follows feudal developments, in roughly chronological order, in those states where feudalism was consciously imported—lower Italy and Sicily, England, and Crusader Syria. He finally treats lands in which the military structure revealed some feudal characteristics but where institutions were never more than superficially feudalized—Southern France, Christian Spain, central and northern Italy, and Germany—describing how such factors as native military institutions, the pattern of landholding, economic structure, and manpower problems worked to modify feudal military institutions and practices. This book will illuminate for specialist and lay reader alike a strangely neglected aspect of feudal life.
| Author | : Matthew Bennett |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780312348205 |
Describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Near East in an age before the widespread use of gunpowder.
| Author | : Edward Shepherd Creasy |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 588 |
| Release | : 1852 |
| Genre | : Battles |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : David Grummitt |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2014-01-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857723294 |
The Wars of the Roses (c. 1455-1487) are renowned as an infamously savage and tangled slice of English history. A bloody thirty-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, they embraced localised vendetta (such as the bitter northern feud between the Percies and Nevilles) as well as the formal clash of royalist and rebel armies at St Albans, Ludford Bridge, Mortimer's Cross, Towton, Tewkesbury and finally Bosworth, when the usurping Yorkist king, Richard III, was crushed by Henry Tudor. Powerful personalities dominate the period: the charismatic and enigmatic Richard III, immortalized by Shakespeare; the slippery Warwick, the Kingmaker', who finally over-reached ambition to be cut down at the Battle of Barnet; and guileful women like Elizabeth Woodville and Margaret of Anjou, who for a time ruled the kingdom in her husband's stead. David Grummitt places the violent events of this complex time in the wider context of fifteenth-century kingship and the development of English political culture.Never losing sight of the traumatic impact of war on the lives of those who either fought in or were touched by battle, this captivating new history will make compelling reading for students of the late medieval period and Tudor England, as well as for general readers.
