shopping cart
Call us:  800-878-7323 HELP
McAfee SECURE helps keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams.
Interviews | July 4, 2009

All posts by Jill Owens Powells.com Interview: Luis Alberto Urrea

Luis Alberto Urrea is a poet, novelist, journalist, and essayist who has been writing about the relationship between the United States and Mexico,... Continue »


  1. $17.49 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    Into the Beautiful North

    Luis Alberto Urrea

On Order

$29.95
HARDCOVER, NEW
Currently out of stock.
Add to Wishlist
Qty Store Section
- Local Warehouse Military- Strategy Tactics and Deception


Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World: Equipment, Combat Skills and Tactics

by Matthew Bennett

Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World: Equipment, Combat Skills and Tactics Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World describes the fighting techniques of soldiers in Europe and the Near East in an age before the widepsread use of gunpowder. The book explores the unique tactics required to win battles with the technology available, and demonstrates how little has changed in some respects of the art of war.
 
The book is divided into five chapters covering the main elements of medieval warfare: infantry, cavalry, generalship, siege warfare, and naval combat. Each chapter features four major battles to demonstrate the strengths, pitfalls, and characteristics of the style of warfare.
 
Using specially-commisioned color and black-and-white artwork to illustrate the battles, equipment, and tactics of the era, Fighting Techniques of the Medieval World shows in detail the methods by which armies, including Norman, Crusader, and Mongol forces, prevailed over their foes, and why other armies were less successful. The book is an essential companion for any reader interested in warfare in the medieval age.

About the Author

Matthew Bennett is a Senior Lecturer at The Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. His books include the Cambridge Atlas of Warfare: The Middle Ages and Agincourt, 1415.

 

Jim Bradbury's books include The Medieval Archer, The Medieval Siege, and The Routledge Companion to Medieval Warfare.

 

Kelly DeVries is Professor of History at Loyola College in Maryland. He is the author of Medieval Military Technology, Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century, Joan of Arc: A Military Leader, and Guns and Men in Medieval Europe.

 

Iain Dickie has been a committe member of the Society of Ancients and editor of Army & Navy Modelworld, Military Hobbies, and Miniature Wargames magazines.

 
Phyllis Jestice is Assistant Professor of Medieval History, University of Southern Mississippi. She was previously Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval History, California State University.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780312348205
Subtitle:
Equipment, Combat Skills and Tactics
Author:
Bennett, Matthew
Author:
Jestice, Phyllis
Author:
Bradbury, Jim
Author:
Dickie, Iain
Author:
DeVries, Kelly
Publisher:
Thomas Dunne Books
Subject:
Military - Strategy
Subject:
History
Subject:
Medieval
Subject:
Military art and science
Subject:
Military history, Medieval
Subject:
Military art and science -- History.
Edition Description:
First
Publication Date:
December 2005
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
10.00x7.82x.93 in. 2.30 lbs.

Other books you might like

  1. $17.95 Used Trade Paper add to wish list
  2. $20.00 Used Hardcover add to wish list
  3. $24.95 New Hardcover add to wish list
  4. $18.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list
  5. $18.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list
  6. $8.95 Used Hardcover add to wish list

    Rocks, Fossils and Dinosaurs

    Arthur B. Busbey and Robert R. Coenraads and David Roots and Paul Willis and Christopher A. Brochu a

Related Aisles

  • back to top

Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.