A History of the Early Medieval Siege, C. 450-1220 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Early Medieval Siege, C. 450-1220 write by Peter Fraser Purton. This book was released on 2009. A History of the Early Medieval Siege, C. 450-1220 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Byblos, Lebanon: An early twelfth-century crusader castle with donjon. --Book Jacket.
Civilians and Warfare in World History
Civilians and Warfare in World History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Civilians and Warfare in World History write by Nicola Foote. This book was released on 2017-08-23. Civilians and Warfare in World History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the role played by civilians in shaping the outcomes of military combat across time and place. This volume explores the contributions civilians have made to warfare in case studies that range from ancient Europe to contemporary Africa and Latin America. Building on philosophical and legal scholarship, it explores the blurred boundary between combatant and civilian in different historical contexts and examines how the absence of clear demarcations shapes civilian strategic positioning and impacts civilian vulnerability to military targeting and massacre. The book argues that engagement with the blurred boundaries between combatant and non-combatant both advance the key analytical questions that underpin the historical literature on civilians and underline the centrality of civilians to a full understanding of warfare. The volume provides new insight into why civilian death and suffering has been so common, despite widespread beliefs embedded in legal and military codes across time and place that killing civilians is wrong. Ultimately, the case studies in the book show that civilians, while always victims of war, were nevertheless often able to become empowered agents in defending their own lives, and impacting the outcomes of wars. By highlighting civilian military agency and broadening the sense of which actors affect strategic outcomes, the book also contributes to a richer understanding of war itself. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, international history, international relations and war and conflict studies.
The Cambridge History of Warfare
The Cambridge History of Warfare - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Warfare write by Geoffrey Parker. This book was released on 2020-06-04. The Cambridge History of Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of eight distinguished military historians, examines how war was waged by Western powers across a sweeping timeframe beginning with classical Greece and Rome, moving through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. The book stresses five essential aspects of the Western way of war: a combination of technology, discipline, and an aggressive military tradition with an extraordinary capacity to respond rapidly to challenges and to use capital rather than manpower to win. Although the focus remains on the West, and on the role of violence in its rise, each chapter also examines the military effectiveness of its adversaries and the regions in which the West's military edge has been – and continues to be – challenged.
The Eurasian Way of War
The Eurasian Way of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Eurasian Way of War write by David A. Graff. This book was released on 2016-03-10. The Eurasian Way of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a comparative study of military practice in Sui-Tang China and the Byzantine Empire between approximately 600 and 700 CE. It covers all aspects of the military art from weapons and battlefield tactics to logistics, campaign organization, military institutions, and the grand strategy of empire. Whilst not neglecting the many differences between the Chinese and Byzantines, this book highlights the striking similarities in their organizational structures, tactical deployments and above all their extremely cautious approach to warfare. It shows that, contrary to the conventional wisdom positing a straightforward Western way of war and an "Oriental" approach characterized by evasion and trickery, the specifics of Byzantine military practice in the seventh century differed very little from what was known in Tang China. It argues that these similarities cannot be explained by diffusion or shared cultural influences, which were limited, but instead by the need to deal with common problems and confront common enemies, in particular the nomadic peoples of the Eurasian steppes. Overall, this book provides compelling evidence that pragmatic needs may have more influence than deep cultural imperatives in determining a society’s "way of war."
Armies of the Dark Ages
Armies of the Dark Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Armies of the Dark Ages write by Ian Heath. This book was released on 2015-03-23. Armies of the Dark Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Armies of the Dark Ages spans the period from 600 AD to 1066 and describes Byzantine, Sub-Roman, Pictish, Irish, Visigothic, Lombard, Merovingian, Carolingian, Ottonian, Viking, Russian, Slav, Avar, Khazar, Magyar, Bulgar, Pecheneg, Ghuzz, Alan, Armenian, Sassanid, Arab, Andalusian, Near Eastern, Saxon, Norman, Italian and Spanish armies. It examines tactics and strategy, organisation and formations as well as providing a detailed guide to the dress and equipment of the armies of the period. Comprehensive illustrations complement the text and the result is a wealth of information for anyone interested in the warfare of the time. Long out of print, the book has been a source of inspiration to wargamers and academic historians alike. It is reprinted here in its complete 1980 second edition with an updated bibliography.
