Sir Charles Oman's History of The Art of War in the Middle Ages Volume 1 - Brossura

Oman, Charles William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1783313145 ISBN 13: 9781783313143

Casa editrice: Naval & Military Press, 2017

Riassunto

Sir Charles Oman’s classic two-volume history of warfare in the Middle Ages is the key work for understanding the changing face of battle as it was tested, refined and transformed through centuries of upheaval. Both scholarly and accessible this is wonderful account, from a gifted writer, of the characteristic strategies, tactics, military organisation, and of the developments in war that took place during the Middle Ages.

Volume One charts the period from 378 to the battle of Marchfield in 1278 which decided the fate of Austria and marked the ascendancy of the armoured knight. Includes the transition from the Roman to Medieval Warfare and the development of Cavalry, the Byzantine Army and its development, the Crusades, the Visigoths, the Lombards, the Franks, the Anglo-Saxons, Charlemagne, the Vikings and Magyars, their weaponry,arms and armour. With detailed descriptions of particular battles such as Adrianople, Louvain, Hastings and Lewis.

Volume Two covers Edward the First’s Welsh Wars, Bannockburn,the Hundred Years War, the rise of the Swiss, the Condottieri in Italy, the Housesit Wars and the wars of the Roses. Particular importance is accorded to the early use of gunpowder and its revolutionary impact on tactics, siege craft and politics and conduct of war.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Naval & Military Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1783313145
• ISBN 13: 9781783313143
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 578