"Provides an insightful, yet concise, overview of ten major campaigns or battles of the period Praeger is pleased to announce a partnership with Osprey Publishing to make these unique books available to our customers. Now available in high-quality hardback volumes, this series provides insightful, yet concise, overviews of major battles. The books have been created to appeal to a wide range of interested readers, including students, amat ..."
Medieval Indian Armies (1): Hindu, Buddhist and Jain (Men-at-Arms) by DrDavidNicolle Paperback, Published 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-4728-4344-9, ISBN: 1-4728-4344-4
Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 Volume 2: Military Flying Services in the Arab Countries, 1916-1918 (Middle East @ War, Band 2) by DrDavidNicolle Paperback, Published 2020 by Helion & Co Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-913118-76-1, ISBN: 1-913118-76-2
"Based on decades of research and newly available sources in Arabic and European languages, and illustrated with authentic photography, Volume 2 of the 'Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955' continues the story of the men and machines of ..."
Age of Charlemagne (Men-At-Arms (Osprey)) by DrDavidNicolle Hardcover, Published by Tandem Library ISBN-13: 978-0-613-76968-6, ISBN: 0-613-76968-6
The Khazars A Judeo-Turkish Empire on the Steppes, 7th–11th Centuries AD (Men-at-Arms) by Mikhail Zhirohov, DrDavidNicolle, Christa Hook Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2019 by Osprey Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-4728-3013-5, ISBN: 1-4728-3013-X
"The Khazars were one of the most important Turkic peoples in European history, dominating vast areas of southeastern Europe and the western reaches of the Central Asian steppes from the 4th to the 11th centuries AD. They were also unique in that their aristocratic and military elites converted to Judaism, creating what would be territorially the largest Jewish-ruled state in world history. They became significant allies of the Byzantine ..."
"New archaeological material and research underpin this extensive, detailed and beautifully illustrated account of the famous Mamluk Askars.The Mamluk army is credited with finally defeating and expelling the Crusaders from the Middle East, with defeating and halting the Mongol invasion of the Islamic Middle East, and with facing down - though not defeating - Tamerlane. Their state was an essentially military one but was for centuries al ..."
"Charlemagne's conquests became the driving force in European politics between the Muslim defeat at Poitiers and the Crusades. He dominates the military history of Medieval Europe since his empire spanned France, western Germany, and northern Italy.Charlemagne's conquest of the Saxons was the hardest fought and most protracted of his wars. It involved 18 campaigns spread over 33 years, a great deal of lower-level fighting and the harshe ..."
"The famous but largely unchronicled Hanseatic League (or simple "the Hanse/Hansa") was a Tuetonic German commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbor towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts of what are now Germany and her neighbors, which eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread its influence much further afield. The League was formed to protect the economic and political interests ..."
"Facing off against Byzantines, Arabs, Vikings, Turks, Mongols, and Russians, this steppe culture dominated Black Sea and Caucasus trade during Medieval times. The Bulgars were a Turkic people who established a state north of the Black Sea, and who showed similarities with the Alans and Sarmatians. In the late 500s and early 600s AD their state fragmented under pressure from the Khazars; one group moved south into what became Bulgaria, b ..."
"Longbows, crossbows, heavy spears, swiss pikes, catapaults, and especially gunpowder artillery and handheld guns such as the arquebus gradually but profoundly changed European warfare.By about 1260 the steady rise of the European heavily armoured mounted knight to the predominant role in most pitched battles was complete. But though he dominated the actual day of battle, he did not dominate warfare - there were plenty of vital though un ..."
"Osprey's elite title on the rise and fall of European medieval cavalry during an 800 year period. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire there was a decline in professional cavalry forces, and infantry dominated in the Germanic successor barbarian kingdoms. In the Carolingian and Norman periods from the 9th to the 11th centuries, under the impact of Viking, Saracen and Magyar advances, the cavalry arm gradually expanded from the sma ..."
The Fourth Crusade 1202-04(1st Edition) The betrayal of Byzantium (Campaign) by DrDavidNicolle, Christa Hook Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2011 by Osprey Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84908-319-5, ISBN: 1-84908-319-3
"The Fourth Crusade was the first and most famous of the 'diverted' crusades, that is, ones diverted from their originally intended target. It was also the first to be directed against a fellow Christian, though Orthodox, state. Initially preached (from 1198 onwards) as a campaign against Ayyubid Egypt, which was correctly seen as the most potent threat to the Latin or 'Crusader' Kingdom of Jerusalem, its first Christian target was the c ..."
"In 1373, John of Gaunt set off from Calais on a great raid to strike at the heart of France. Driven by the high ideals of chivalry,the raiders left with epic pageantry. However, the reality soon overwhelmed the raiders. Beset on all sides by French ambushes and plagued by disease and starvation, the raiders battled their way through Champagne, east of Paris, into Burgundy, across the Massif Central and finally down into the Dordogne. Un ..."
Saladin(1st Edition) The background, strategies, tactics and battlefield experiences of the greatest commanders of history by DrDavidNicolle, Peter Dennis Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2011 by Osprey Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84908-317-1, ISBN: 1-84908-317-7
"This Osprey Command book looks closely at the early life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Al-Malik al-Nasir Yusuf Ibn Najm al-Din Ayyub Ibn Shahdi Abu'l-Muzaffar Salah al-Din - or Saladin as he is more commonly known outside the Islamic world - who is broadly regarded as the greatest hero of the Crusades, even in Europe. Most chroniclers present him as a man of outstanding virtue, courage and political skill. More r ..."
"Oasprey's study of Ottoman infantrymen during World War I (1914-1918). The Ottoman Army was the first to employ the 'triangular division', starting from 1910, which contained three infantry regiments of three battalions supported by an artillery regiment of three battalions. This structure went on to become the world's standard. In the years immediately prior to the outbreak of World War I, the Ottoman Army undertook a massive retrainin ..."
The Second Crusade 1148(1st Edition) Disaster outside Damascus (Campaign) by DrDavidNicolle, Christa Hook Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2009 by Osprey Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84603-354-4, ISBN: 1-84603-354-3
"After the fall of the crusader kingdom of Edessa, the Pope called for a new crusade in 1145. This new campaign by the Christian west against the forces of eastern Islam would culminate in the 1148 siege of Damascus, then the capital city of an Islamic state that had been friendly towards the crusaders. Despite the earlier successes for the crusaders at Antioch and Jerusalem, and the weak fortifications around Damascus, the siege proved ..."
"The history of Poland is a fascinating story of a people struggling to achieve nationhood in the face of internal and external conflict. Poland became a unified Christian state in AD 966 and by the 12th century a knightly class had emerged - a force that was integral to the defense of Poland against increasingly frequent foreign invasions. Intent on crushing rival Christian states, the Templars, Hospitallers and Teutonic Knights all mou ..."
"The Islamic world developed its own highly sophisticated, effective and varied style of fortification. It drew upon pre-existing Romano-Byzantine, Iranian, Central Asian and Indian traditions of military architecture, plus influences from China, to produce something new and distinctive. In turn, Islamic concepts of military architecture influenced fortifications throughout the Byzantine Empire and, to an even greater extent, in Western ..."
Atlas of Ancient Mesopotamia 5th Millennium BC - 7th Century AD (Historical Atlas) by DrDavidNicolle Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2008 by Mercury Books London ISBN-13: 978-1-904668-19-0, ISBN: 1-904668-19-4
"The definitive study of the birthplace of civilization."
Knights of Jerusalem The Crusading Order of Hospitallers 1100-1565 (World of the Warrior) by DrDavidNicolle Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2008 by Osprey Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84603-080-2, ISBN: 1-84603-080-3
"The Order of St John of the Hospital of Jerusalem (or the Hospitallers as they are better known) has existed for almost a thousand years. It was established in Jerusalem in the mid-11th century to care for Christian pilgrims and its role initially was entirely non-combatant. But, as the wars of the crusades progressed, the Order took on a military role, at first simply protecting the pilgrims and then expressed as "defending the Holy S ..."