Medieval Warfare source book

Warfare in Western Christendom

Autor*innen

• David Nicolle

Parameter

• 320 Seiten
• 12 Lesestunden

• Geschichte
• Kriegsliteratur
• Militärgeschichte
• Mittelalter
• Sachliteratur

Mehr zum Buch

This is the first in a two volume work that divides its coverage of warfare between the fifth and fourteenth centuries into those seen in internal European and those campaigns waged by European nations beyond their boundaries and wars in other continents. The author supplements his informative text with illustrations and line drawings, extensive source notes and appendixes. He divides this first volume into: 'Barbarian' invasions and and the barbarian states. Early Medieval Europe; The High Middle Ages; Late Medieval Europe; In each section he covers the peoples, campaigns, battles, armies - their recruitment, organisation, tactics, strategy, weaponry, fortification, siege warfare and naval campaigns. This part of the book is followed by biographies of the leading characters of the period.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Einband: Hardcover