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The sword was the most important of weapons, but relatively little has been written about its metallurgy. The results of the microscopic examination of over a hundred swords are used to tell the story of the making of swords from the first examples through the Middle Ages to the 16th century.
€130.00$168.00
This volume of essays provides the first major comparative study of the role played by women’s movements and individual female activists in enabling or thwarting the transition from war to peace in Europe in the crucial years 1918 to 1923.
€130.00$168.00
Representing the best of cutting-edge scholarship in First World War studies, this anthology demonstrates how conversations among historians across international and cross-disciplinary boundaries enhances our understanding of this global conflict.
€123.00$159.00
The first comparative study of proto-colonial fortifications, First Forts comprises essays written by leading archaeologists that address the questions of how European first defended themselves overseas and to what degree they adapted to local conditions.
€147.00$190.00
New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare explores the armies of antiquity from Assyria and Persia, to classical Greece and Rome. The studies illustrate the ways in which technology, innovation, cultural exchange, and tactical developments transformed ancient warfare by land and sea.
€147.00$190.00
This book places early modern Scottish maritime warfare in its European context. Its formidably broad range of sources sheds light on many previously little known, or unknown, aspects of naval history. It also provides many valuable new perspectives on the importance of the sea to the Scots, and ...
€144.00$187.00
This book revisits some of the most significant guerrilla struggles of the late 19th century, all set in Africa, and remind readers, in light of current events, the difficulties involved in engaging in this type of conflict.
€110.00$142.00
By exploring the moral and legal context of medieval strategic thinking, this work explains how the use of surprise and deception could, in certain circumstances, be reconciled with the practise of chivalric warfare.
€200.00$259.00
This comparative study focuses on the history, organization, and personnel of the central convent, an institution at the heart of the international military religious orders of the Hospital and the Temple, in Jerusalem, Acre, and Cyprus, from 1099/1120 to 1310.