Medieval Warfare

History of the Art of War, Volume III

Автор: Hans Delbruck

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: University of Nebraska Press

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"Delbruck is internationally regarded as the first modern military historian. History of the Art of...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Hans Delbruck

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1990

страници

712

EAN

9780803265851

ISBN

0803265859

Enbook ID

04923886

Издател

University of Nebraska Press

Теглоt

1062

Размери

155 x 230 x 48

Пълно описание

"Delbruck is internationally regarded as the first modern military historian. History of the Art of War, considered a classic, is his foundational achievement. Renfroe's translation retains the spirited erudition of the original German and renders it into elegant and readable English. Beyond a doubt a landmark in twentieth-century historical literature."--Arden Bucholz, author of Hans Delbruck and the German Military Establishment From the eighth century through the Middle Ages feudalism determined the nature of European warfare. Medieval Warfare begins in the time of Charlemagne, who maintained a military system of freemen and of vassals bound to him in service for lands granted in fief. These pages are crowded with re-creations of famous events like the Battle of Hastings and movements like the Crusades; with the brightest flowers of knighthood, and with the mercenary grandeur of Byzantium. Hans Delbruck shows how feudal military organization varied in different countries and why the knightly forces could not hold up against the barbarous Normans. He studies military developments in the kingdoms that rose with the collapse of the Carolingian Empire, as well as the trend toward mercenary armies. When the Swiss peasants, forming the first true infantry, defeated the Burgundian knights in the fourteenth century, the era of modern warfare had begun. This edition marks the first appearance in paperback of Walter J. Renfroe Jr.'s English translation of Medieval Warfare The other three volumes of Delbruck's History of the Art of War were also translated by Renfroe and are available as Bison Books.

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