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  • $40.90 Acre 1291
    Campaign 154   Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Graham Turner   About this bookIn April 1291, a Mamluk army laid siege to Acre, the last great Crusader fortress in the Holy Land. For six weeks, the siege dragged on until the...

  • $40.90 Agincourt 1415 - Triumph against the odds
    Campaign 9   Author: Matthew Bennett Agincourt is one of the most evocative names in English military history. Henry V's forces were tired, hungry, and faced a French army three to six times more numerous. However, they possessed several...

  • $30.67 Ancient Armies of the Middle East
    Men-at-Arms 109   Author: Angus McBrideIllustrator: Gerry Embleton About this bookThis text by Terence Wise explores some of the fascinating peoples who comprised the ancient armies of the Middle East: the Sumerians, who were the first...

  • $30.67 Anglo-Saxon Thegn AD 449–1066
    Warrior 5   Author: Mark Harrison Illustrator: Gerry Embleton About this bookThe collapse of Roman rule in Britain was not so much a sudden catastrophe as a long and drawn-out decline. The 'Celtic' Britons retreated gradually to the...

  • $30.67 $22.49 Armies of Medieval Russia 750–1250
    Men-at-Arms 333   Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride About this bookIn the centuries following the first expeditions down the great rivers of northern Russia by Viking traders and adventurers, the foundations for a...

  • $26.58 Armies of the Muslim Conquest
    Men-at-Arms 255   Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride About this bookThe dramatic eruption of the Arab peoples from Arabia after their adoption of the Muslim faith in the 7th century remains one of the most...

  • $25.56 Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars
    Men-at-Arms 154   Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride About this bookThe Arthurian Age; the Celtic Twilight; the Dark Ages; the Birth of England; these are the powerfully romantic names often given to one of the most...

  • $35.79 Aztec Warrior - AD 1325–1521
    Warrior 32   Author: John PohlIllustrator: Adam Hook About this bookAccording to one popular image, the Aztec army was a ruthless and efficient war machine, that established an empire by convincingly overwhelming its neighbors,...

  • $40.90 $35.79 Bannockburn 1314 - Robert Bruce’s great victory
    Campaign 102   Author: Peter Armstrong Illustrator: Graham Turner Bannockburn was the climax of the career of King Robert the Bruce. In 1307 King Edward I of England, 'The Hammer of the Scots' and nemesis of William Wallace, died and...

  • $30.67 Bronze Age War Chariots
    New Vanguard 119   Author: Nic Fields Illustrator: Brian Delf   About this bookChariots, the first mobile fighting vehicle, seem to have originated in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. The highly mobile two-wheeled war...

  • $30.67 Byzantine Armies AD 1118–1461
    Men-at-Arms 287   Author: Ian HeathIllustrator: Angus McBride About this bookThe Byzantine Empire's disastrous defeat by the Seljuk Turks at Manzikert in 1071 effectively marked the end of what is often described as the 'middle' period...

  • $30.67 $25.56 Byzantine Infantryman - Eastern Roman Empire c.900-1204
    Warrior 118   Author: Timothy Dawson Illustrator: Angus McBride The Byzantine Army was the closest the middle ages came to producing a military superpower. Built on a strong belief system emphasising stealth, surprise, swift manoeuvre...

  • $25.56 Carthaginian Warrior 264–146 BC
    Warrior 150   Author: Nic Fields Illustrator: Steve Noon About this bookBy the outbreak of the First Carthaginian War, Carthage controlled the whole coast of northern Africa. At first, the core of the Carthaginian armies was made...

  • $30.67 $25.56 Celtic Warrior 300 BC–AD 100
    Warrior 30   Author: Stephen Allen Illustrator: Wayne Reynolds About this bookIn the 1st century BC, Strabo wrote of the Celts: ‘The whole race... is madly fond of war, high-spirited and quick to battle... and on whatever pretext...

  • $40.90 Crécy 1346 - Triumph of the longbow
    Campaign 71   Author: David NicolleIllustrator: Graham Turner The Battle of Crecy was the first major land battle of the Hundred Years War. It pitted the French army, then considered the best in Europe, and their miscellaneous allies...

  • $30.67 El Cid and the Reconquista 1050–1492
    Men-at-Arms 200   Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride About this bookThe very name El Cid sums up much of the special character of medieval Spanish warfare. It comes from the Arabic al sayyid, master or chieftain, and...

  • $33.74 $25.56 English Longbowman 1330–1515
    Warrior 11   Author: Clive Bartlett Illustrator: Gerry Embleton About this bookThe English military ascendancy which lasted from the mid-14th to the early 15th century was founded upon defensive tactics based on the use of the longbow...

  • $26.58 English Medieval Knight 1200–1300
    Warrior 48 Author: Christopher GravettIllustrator: Graham Turner About this bookThe 13th century was a time of change for knights in England. They were faced with rising costs and increasing demands on their time for local government because of...

  • $30.67 $23.51 French Armies of the Hundred Years War
    Men-at-Arms 337   Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride About this bookThe fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were a time of great upheaval for medieval France. In 1328 the Capetian line came to an end. This was the trigger...

  • $30.67 French Medieval Armies 1000–1300
    Men-at-Arms 231   Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride About this bookBy the 11th century the French King had lost control of border regions, while local warfare had grown alarmingly frequent. In fact the energies of the...

  • $25.56 $20.45 German Medieval Armies 1000–1300
    Men-at-Arms 310   Author: Christopher Gravett Illustrator: Graham Turner About this bookIn medieval Germany violence was accepted far more than in other kingdoms. Kings were recognised as guardians of order, but this had its...

  • $30.67 $25.56 German Medieval Armies 1300–1500
    Men-at-Arms 166   Author: Christopher GravettIllustrator: Angus McBride About this bookThe German rulers were forceful and powerful men, and, surrounded by potential enemies, circumstances dictated the necessity of rule by strength based...

  • $33.74 Germanic Warrior AD 236–568
    Warrior 17   Author: Simon MacDowall Illustrator: Angus McBride About this bookThe 3rd to the 6th centuries saw the collapse of the classical Mediterranean civilization and the emergence of new states in western Europe based on the...

  • $33.74 $23.42 Greek Hoplite 480–323 BC
    Warrior 27   Author: Nicholas SekundaIllustrator: Adam Hook About this bookThe Greek hoplite, the archetypal spear-armed warrior, is perhaps the most prevalent figure in our view of the 'Golden Age' of Ancient Greek civilisation. It was...

  • $30.67 $25.56 Henry V and the Conquest of France 1416–53
    Men-at-Arms 317   Author: Paul Knight Illustrator: Graham Turner About this bookThis book details the English army that Henry V led back into France in 1417 to conquer Normandy and again take the war to the French. In 1422 Henry...

  • $30.67 $22.40 Henry VIII's Army
    Men-at-Arms 191    Author: Paul Cornish Illustrator: Angus McBride About this bookMilitary affairs occupied a very significant place during Henry VIII's reign, with English armies seeing action against two main enemies: the...

  • $33.74 Highland Clansman 1689–1746
    Warrior 21   Author: Stuart Reid Illustrator: Angus McBride For nearly 60 years the clans of Highland Scotland proved to be an almost constant thorn in the side of a series of British monarchs. Fiercely independent, the clans comprised...

  • $30.67 $23.51 Italian Medieval Armies 1300–1500
    Men-at-Arms 136   Author: David NicolleIllustrator: Gerry Embleton About this bookMercenaries were a common feature throughout most of Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries, and had been known far earlier. But nowhere did such a...

  • $25.56 Knight Hospitaller (1) 1100–1306
    Warrior 33   Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Christa Hook About this bookUnlike their sometime rivals the Templars, the Order of St John of the Hospital of Jerusalem (or the Hospitallers as they are better known) was not created as a...

  • $25.56 Knight Hospitaller (2) 1306–1565
    Warrior 41   Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Christa Hook About this bookHaving campaigned on land during their early existence, the Hospitallers fought mainly at sea from the turn of the 14th century. The emphasis was now on...

  • $25.56 Knight Templar 1120-1312
    Warrior 91   Author: Helen Nicholson Illustrator: Wayne Reynolds About this book The order of the Temple was a military-religious organisation that was set up to protect pilgrims and settlers in the Holy Land. The Templars believed...

  • $30.67 Knights of Christ
    Men-at-Arms 155   Author: Terence WiseIllustrator: Richard Scollins About this bookThe ancient warrior code which persisted in medieval Christian Europe dictated that a man's greatest virtues were physical strength, skill at arms,...

  • $25.56 Landsknecht Soldier 1486–1560
    Warrior 49   Author: John Harald Richards Illustrator: Gerry Embleton About this bookThe Landsknecht (meaning 'servant of the country') flourished during a key period for military organisation and practice. In the late 15th century, the...

  • $30.67 Medieval European Armies
    Men-at-Arms 50   Author: Terence WiseIllustrator: Gerry Embleton About this bookAlmost continual warfare raged in Europe during the period 1300-1500. These wars were the furnaces in which many of the modern European nations were forged...

  • $25.56 Medieval Handgonnes
    Weapon 3   Author: Sean McLachlanIllustrator: Gerry Embleton Sam Embleton About this bookIn the early 14th century, a new weapon entered the arsenals of European armies. This first generation of black powder weapons put fear into the...

  • $30.67 Medieval Polish Armies 966–1500
    Men-at-Arms 455   Author: Witold Sarnecki, David Nicolle Illustrator: Gerry Embleton, Samuel Embleton About this bookThe history of Poland is a fascinating story of a people struggling to achieve nationhood in the face of internal...

  • $30.67 $22.49 Medieval Russian Armies 1250–1500
    Men-at-Arms 367   Author: Viacheslav Shpakovsky, David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride About this bookAfter disastrous defeats at the hands of the Mongols in the 13th century, the Russian principalities became vassals of the...

  • $30.67 Medieval Scandinavian Armies (1)
    Men-at-Arms 396   Author: David Lindholm, David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride About this bookWhile Scandinavia's 'Viking Age' is one of the most studied aspects of early medieval history, much less has been published about the...

  • $30.67 Medieval Scandinavian Armies (2)
    Men-at-Arms 399   Author: David Lindholm, David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride About this bookWhile Scandinavia's 'Viking Age' is one of the most studied aspects of early medieval history, much less has been published about the...

  • $30.67 $23.42 Medieval Siege Weapons (1) Western Europe AD 585–1385
    New Vanguard 58   Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Sam Thompson About this bookThe Medieval era was a period of huge variety and invention in siege warfare. Before the use of cannon and other gun-powder artillery, siege engines relied...


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