Warfare in 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 Warfare in the Dark Ages write by John France. This book was released on 2008. Warfare in the Dark Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes articles which explore the way in which military developments helped to sculpt out of very strange and diverse components our familiar Europe. This title considers the military aspects of one of the historical mysteries - the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Medieval Warfare : A History
Medieval Warfare : A 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 Medieval Warfare : A History write by Maurice Keen. This book was released on 1999-08-26. Medieval Warfare : A History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 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.
Medieval Warfare
Medieval 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 Medieval Warfare write by Everett Uberto Crosby. This book was released on 2000. Medieval Warfare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hono 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.
Castles, Battles, & Bombs
Castles, Battles, & Bombs - 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 Castles, Battles, & Bombs write by Jurgen Brauer. This book was released on 2008-11-15. Castles, Battles, & Bombs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1453
Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1453 - 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 Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1453 write by Bernard S. Bachrach. This book was released on 2021-08-30. Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1453 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Warfare in Medieval Europe, now in its second edition, offers considerably more attention to the transition from the later Roman Empire to the early Middle Ages, the composition of the armies of the opponents of the West, and the experience of commanders and individual combatants on the battlefield. This second revised and expanded edition provides a more in-depth thematic discussion of the nature and conduct of war, with an emphasis on its overall impact on society, from the late Roman Empire to the end of the Hundred Years’ War. The authors explore the origins of the institutions, physical infrastructure, and intellectual underpinnings of warfare, with chapters on military topography, military technology, logistics, combat, and strategy. Bernard and David Bachrach have also added a new chapter, which provides two detailed campaign narratives that highlight the themes treated throughout the text. The geographical scope of the volume encompasses Latin Europe, the Slavic World, Scandinavia, and the eastern Mediterranean, with a particular focus on the conflict between Western Christianity and the Islamic Near East. Written in an accessible and engaging way, Warfare in Medieval Europe is the ideal resource for all students of the history of medieval warfare.
