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Author: Tom Lewis
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 2021-04-16
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781612008875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis books shows for the first time the battle techniques of the medieval period and reexamines the sources for battle numbers.
Author: Matthew Bennett
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780312348205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Near East in an age before the widespread use of gunpowder.
Author: Maurice Keen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 1999-08-26
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0191542520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis richly illustrated book explores over seven hundred years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (c.1500). The period covered has a distinctive character in military history. It was an age when organization for war was integral to social structure, when the secular aristocrat was by necessity also a warrior, and whose culture was profoundly influenced by martial ideas. Twelve scholars, experts in their own fields, have contributed to this finely illustrated book. It is divided into two parts. Part I seeks to explore the experience of war viewed chronologically with separate chapters on, for instance, the Viking age, on the wars and expansion of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, on the Crusades and on the great Hundred Years War between England and France. The chapters in Part II trace thematically the principal developments in the art of warfare; in fortification and siege craft; in the role of armoured cavalrymen; in the employment of mercenary forces; the advent of gunpowder artillery; and of new skills in navigation and shipbuilding. In both parts of the book, the overall aim has been to offer the general reader an impression, not just of the where and the when of great confrontations, but above all of the social experience of warfare in the middle ages, and of the impact of its demands on human resources and human endurance.
Author: Hans Talhoffer
Publisher: Frontline Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848327702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in Great Britain in 2000 by Greenhill Books; reprinted in this format in 2014 by Frontline Books.
Author: Jurgen Brauer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-11-15
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 0226071650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCastles, 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: Everett Uberto Crosby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780815338499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHono sapiens, homo pugnans, and so it has been since the beginning of recorded history. In the Middle Ages, especially, armed conflict and the military life were so much a part of the political and cultural development that a general account of this period is, in large measure, a description of how men went to war.
Author: Martin J. Dougherty
Publisher: Chartwell Books
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0785834257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis awesomely illustrated and factual account sheds light on medieval warfare, as well as their weapons, armor, siege engines, and much more.
Author: John H. Beeler
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 150172682X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeudal 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: John Keegan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1983-01-27
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1440673993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn 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: Philippe Contamine
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780631144694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of medieval warfare in Europe covers the fifth through the fifteenth century and discusses armor, artillery, strategy, and courage
