Author : Jonathan D. Oates
Publisher : Helion
Page : pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2020-09-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781913336554
A study of the sieges of eight fortresses in Scotland and England during the Jacobite rebellion of 1745-1746.
Author : Michael Eisenberg
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1789254094
The papers in this book present, for the first time, the world of warfare, both defensive and offensive, from the Classical periods to end of the Middle Ages in one collection. These scholarships have attracted ancient writers and generals and nowadays historians, archaeologists and researchers poliorcetics. Military historiography and ancient manuals are well familiar from the Classical period throughout the Hellenistic great battlefields until the end of the Middle Ages, the chronological scope of this codex. The current book is the first to encompass this long array of time while trying to enrich the reader with the continuity, development and regression in the different periods and spheres of the ancient poliorcetics and beyond; the papers presented here are focusing on the physical fortifications, besieging and defense techniques, development and efficiency of ancient projectiles and sieging machinery, battlefields and the historiographical evidence. The X papers of the book, are written by some of the best scholars in their field, presenting here for the first time the results of their research, in the west and in the east.
Author : Jessie Childs
Publisher : Random House
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1473523621
**A TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, THE CRITIC, MAIL ON SUNDAY, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'A gifted narrative historian, eloquent, graceful and witty; the stories she tells are the ones we all should know' Hilary Mantel It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war . . . This is the story of a home that became a warzone. Basing House in Hampshire saw one of the longest and bloodiest sieges of the English Civil War. Defended for over two years by artists and aristocrats, actors and apothecaries, women and children, it became a symbol of royalist defiance and a microcosm of the wider conflict. Drawing on unpublished manuscripts and the voices of dozens of soldiers and civilians, award-winning historian Jessie Childs weaves a thrilling tale of war and peace, terror and faith, savagery and civilization. __________ 'Extraordinary, thrilling, immersive ... at times almost Tolstoyan in its emotional intelligence and literary power' Simon Schama 'Compellingly readable... [a] beautifully written and lucid account' Mail on Sunday 'Brilliant. Original. Gripping.' Antonia Fraser 'Beautifully written and gripping from first page to last. A sparkling book by one of the UK's finest historians' Peter Frankopan 'The Siege of Loyalty House is not only deeply researched. Childs has composed a wonderfully poetic narrative and adds a touch of the gothic' The Times 'Successfully brings the ghastliness of the period to life, dramatically, vividly and with pathos' Charles Spencer, Spectator
Author : Joseph Holt Ingraham
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Adventure stories, American
ISBN :
Author : Ernle Bradford
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1497617308
The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire’s Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had expanded his empire from western Asia to southeastern Europe and North Africa. To secure control of the Mediterranean between these territories and launch an offensive into western Europe, Suleiman needed the small but strategically crucial island of Malta. But Suleiman’s attempt to take the island from the Holy Roman Empire’s Knights of St. John would emerge as one of the most famous and brutal military defeats in history. Forty-two years earlier, Suleiman had been victorious against the Knights of St. John when he drove them out of their island fortress at Rhodes. Believing he would repeat this victory, the sultan sent an armada to Malta. When they captured Fort St. Elmo, the Ottoman forces ruthlessly took no prisoners. The Roman grand master La Vallette responded by having his Ottoman captives beheaded. Then the battle for Malta began in earnest: no quarter asked, none given. Ernle Bradford’s compelling and thoroughly researched account of the Great Siege of Malta recalls not just an epic battle, but a clash of civilizations unlike anything since the time of Alexander the Great. It is “a superior, readable treatment of an important but little-discussed epic from the Renaissance past . . . An astonishing tale” (Kirkus Reviews).
Author : Philip Hugh Dalbiac
Publisher : London : Swan Sonnenschein
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 37,25 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : John Keegan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 39,54 MB
Release : 1983-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1440673993
John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle -- a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow cloud at the battle of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme. The Face of Battle is a companion volume to John Keegan's classic study of the individual soldier, The Mask of Command: together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.
Author : Russ Schneider
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2004
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0345475852
Chilling and authentic historical novel.
Author : Antonio Maria Graziani
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Cyprian War, 1570-1571
ISBN :
Author : Peter Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1874
Category :
ISBN :
