Fighting Techniques of the Oriental World

Fighting Techniques of the Oriental World

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Published: 2008

Total Pages: 256

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"This book describes the fighting techniques of the armies of East Asia, from the age of the Mongol expansion in the thirteenth century to the Anglo-Chinese Opium Wars of the mid-nineteenth century. The book explores the tactics and strategy required to win battles with the technology available, and illustrates how the development of such weapons changed the way battles were fought"--Publishers description


Fighting Techniques of the Oriental World, AD 1200-1860

Fighting Techniques of the Oriental World, AD 1200-1860

Author: Michael E. Haskew

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Published: 2013

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781435145320

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"This book describes the fighting techniques of the armies of East Asia, from the age of the Mongol expansion in the thirteenth century to the Anglo-Chinese Opium Wars of the mid-nineteenth century. The book explores the tactics and strategy required to win battles with the technology available, and illustrates how the development of such weapons changed the way battles were fought"--Publishers description.


Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World

Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World

Author: Matthew Bennett

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780312348205

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Describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Near East in an age before the widespread use of gunpowder.


Secret Fighting Arts of the World

Secret Fighting Arts of the World

Author: John F. Gilbey

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Published: 2011-12-06

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1462901433

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Here is a book crammed full of secret fighting techniques never before divulged in print: the Oriental delayed death touch, the destruction wrought on by the fingertips of an obscure Mexican; the shout of doom; the method so terrible it is practiced only in Russian torture chambers, the niceties of Thugee strangulation; and many more vicious fighting tricks. Suppressed for generations! Twenty of the world's most secretly guarded fighting techniques vividly described in one volume. The average reader will find this book amazing--almost unbelievable. But many thousands of rugged young men currently practicing and writing about Oriental martial arts in the United States will find it invaluable. They know that such techniques exist, but have never before had the opportunity to learn them. Even those who scoff at such amazing arts should read this book with care.


Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BC - AD 500

Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World 3000 BC - AD 500

Author: Simon Anglim

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Published: 2002

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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An illustrated history of warfare in the ancient world includes detailed examinations of armies, equipment, and strategies before gunpowder, in a volume that offers insight into the successes of the Assyrian and Roman forces.


Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World

Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World

Author: Christer Jorgensen

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-07-11

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780312348199

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Fighting Techniques of the Early Modern World describes the combat techniques of soldiers in Europe and North America from 1500 to 1763. The book explores the unique tactics required to win battles in an era where the musket increasingly came to dominate the battlefield, and demonstrates how little has changed in some respects of the art of war.


Commando Fighting Techniques

Commando Fighting Techniques

Author: Jim Wilson

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Published: 1985-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780873643818

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Having taught unarmed combat, karate and related disciplines in the Middle East, Wilson and Evans present a realistic approach to using your body as a powerful and effective weapon in combat situations. The chokes, strangles, breakaways, releases, locks, throws, sweeps, blocks and counters in this extensively illustrated guide incorporate Asian fighting arts and Western combat schools of self-defense.


The Measure of Civilization

The Measure of Civilization

Author: Ian Morris

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-02-23

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0691160864

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Uses four factors--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology and war-making capacity--to attempt to show which world regions were the most powerful throughout all of human history.


The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople

The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople

Author: Susan Wise Bauer

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2013-09-23

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 0393240673

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A lively and fascinating narrative history about the birth of the modern world. Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume—the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World—chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and Greek rationality blossom while the Inquisition gathers strength. As kings and emperors continue to insist on their divine rights, ordinary people all over the world seize power: the lingayats of India, the Jacquerie of France, the Red Turbans of China, and the peasants of England. New threats appear, as the Ottomans emerge from a tiny Turkish village and the Mongols ride out of the East to set the world on fire. New currencies are forged, new weapons invented, and world-changing catastrophes alter the landscape: the Little Ice Age and the Great Famine kill millions; the Black Death, millions more. In the chaos of these epoch-making events, our own world begins to take shape. Impressively researched and brilliantly told, The History of the Renaissance World offers not just the names, dates, and facts but the memorable characters who illuminate the years between 1100 and 1453—years that marked a sea change in mankind’s perception of the world.