"[This book] is a comprehensive illustrated history of the way, why, and how war was fought from the fall of the Roman Empire through and including the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation"--Jacket lncludes index
Contents: War and medieval warfare -- The Roman Empire and the rise of the barbarians -- The challenge from the East -- The European response 'feudalism' -- Siege techniques -- England and the feudal military system -- The social and military aspects of knighthood -- Siege and siegecraft fortifications -- The Crusades -- Teutonic Order -- Heraldry -- Transformation of warfare -- Cities in warfare -- Castle building techniques -- The Hussites -- The Condottieri and Mercenary Corps -- Professionalism -- Cannons and artillery -- Renaissance trends -- The peasant at war -- The New Age
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