The International Library of Essays on Military History: The International Library of Essays on Military History
Medieval Warfare 1000–1300
1st Edition
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By John France
January 11, 2019
The study of medieval warfare has developed enormously in recent years. The figure of the armoured mounted knight, who was believed to have materialized in Carolingian times, long dominated all discussion of the subject. It is now understood that the knight emerged over a long period of time and ...
Medieval Warfare 1300–1450
1st Edition
Edited
By Kelly DeVries
October 28, 2010
War was epidemic in the late Middle Ages. It affected every land and all peoples from Scotland and Scandinavia in the north to the southern Mediterranean Sea coastlines of Morocco, North Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East in the south, from Ireland and Spain in the west to Russia and Turkey in the...
Warfare in the Middle East since 1945
1st Edition
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By Ahron Bregman
December 28, 2008
From the end of the Second World War and throughout the era that came to be known as the Cold War, the Middle East was a battleground for Great Power rivalries and constant wars. These were fought between Israelis and Arabs, Arabs and Iranians, Arabs and Arabs and also between regional players and ...
Medieval Ships and Warfare
1st Edition
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By Susan Rose
June 09, 2008
This collection of essays and articles from a wide range of journals is intended to make more accessible to students and scholars some of the most important writing in English in this field from the 1950s to the present day. The volume draws attention to work on both the design and the use of ships...
Warfare in Europe 1919–1938
1st Edition
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By Geoffrey Jensen
May 28, 2008
Although ostensibly a time of peace, one of the richest and most fascinating periods in military history falls between the two world wars. With good reason, even today military theorists look to these years for relevant lessons. The articles and papers collected together in this volume highlight ...
Warfare in the Dark Ages
1st Edition
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By John France, Kelly DeVries
March 28, 2008
The articles in this volume explore the way in which military developments helped to sculpt, out of very strange and diverse components, our familiar Europe. The period studied covers the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the rise of the Carolingian Empire and its eventual collapse, leaving a ...
African Military History
1st Edition
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By John Lamphear
November 07, 2007
This collection of essays on pre-colonial sub-Saharan African military history is drawn from a number of academic journals and includes some which are considered milestones in African historiographical discourse, as well as others which, while lesser known, provide remarkable insight into the ...
Warfare in Japan
1st Edition
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By Harald Kleinschmidt
August 28, 2007
Warfare in Japan from the fourth to the nineteenth century has caused much controversy among Western military and political historians. This volume assembles key articles written by specialists in the field on military organization, the social context of war, battle action, weapons and martial arts...
Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450–1660
1st Edition
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By Paul E.J. Hammer
June 28, 2007
The early modern period saw gunpowder weapons reach maturity and become a central feature of European warfare, on land and at sea. This exciting collection of essays brings together a distinguished and varied selection of modern scholarship on the transformation of war”often described as a ’...
Byzantine Warfare
1st Edition
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By John Haldon
April 28, 2007
Warfare was an integral part of the operations of the medieval eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire, both in its organization, as well as in social thinking and political ideology. This volume presents a selection of articles dealing with key aspects of Byzantine attitudes to war and violence, with ...
The Armies of Classical Greece
1st Edition
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By Everett L. Wheeler
April 28, 2007
The origin of the Western military tradition in Greece 750-362 BC is fraught with controversies, such as the date and nature of the phalanx, the role of agricultural destruction and the existence of rules and ritualistic practices. This volume collects papers significant for specific points in ...
Modern Counter-Insurgency
1st Edition
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By Ian Beckett
February 28, 2007
Insurgency has been the most prevalent form of conflict in the modern world since the end of the Second World War. Accordingly, it has posed a major challenge to conventional armed forces, all of whom have had to evolve counter-insurgency methods in response. The volume brings together classic ...