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Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Compares true history to today's popular role-playing video games and discusses if they portray history accurately, or if the truth gets twisted to create a more exciting game-playing experience.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this succinct history of a conflict that raged for over a century, Gordon Corrigan reveals the horrors of battle and the machinations of power that have shaped a millennium of Anglo-French relationships.
3) Weapons
Author
Series
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
North American ed.
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes weapons and warfare used during the Middle Ages.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
107 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Castles may conjure up a romantic fairy tale world; however, in real life, during the Middle Ages, castles were fortresses, providing shelter and protection for the lord as well as for the peasants who lived on his land. For an army, a lord depended on young soldiers in armor called knights who spent years at the castle learning the skills of warfare"--
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
320 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: A global history of ancient warfare, covering Egypt, the Near East, Greece, Rome, Central Asia, India, China, Korea, Japan, and the Americas. In this new survey of ancient warfare, a group of distinguished historians and archaeologists discusses major battles and wars from around the world. The book ranges in time from 8000 BC and the earliest evidence of warfare in northern Iraq to the armies of the Aztecs and Incas half a millennium...
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
304 p. : ill. (mostly col.), col. maps ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
The history of knights, from their everyday lives to their clothing, training, heraldry and orders, as well as their role in literature and film, and the decline of traditional knighthood.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
182 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Here Geoffrey Hindley serves us the history of military sieges from every angle, tracing the development of fortifications and equipment (offensive and defensive), penning vivid portraits of the weapons involved, exploring the psychology of laying siege, and even describing the role played by women and camp followers in battle. He shows siege tactics in action through real-life case studies of famous sieges that changed the course of history in medieval...
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