Battles in Britain and their Political Background, 1066-1746 by Seymour
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Category: Wars of the Ages | Series: Wordsworth Collection
A detailed account of all the major battles fought on British soil from 1066 to 1746. This text sets them against their political and historical background, and provides an analysis of each action and the results of the battles. It contains a guide to all the battlefields including road directions, batt ...Show more
Redcoat by Richard Holmes
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Category: Wars of the Ages
'Redcoat is a wonderful book, doing justice to men who have long deserved a chronicler of Richard Holmes' skill. It is not just a work of history - but of enthusiasm and unparalleled knowledge.' BERNARD CORNWELL Redcoat combines a first-class military historian famous as a TV personality with a Schama-e ...Show more
Tribes with Flags["A Journey Curtailed"] by Charles Glass
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Category: Wars of the Ages | Series: Picador Bks.
Charles Glass began work on a book chronicling the land and culture of the Levant in 1987. This book is the result, tracing Glass' journey from Southern Turkey around the bay of Alexandretta through Syria, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon. It also includes an account of his kidnap experience in Beirut.
Civil War by Taylor Downing
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Category: Wars of the Ages
Published to accompany a six-part Channel 4 television series, this book outlines the events and themes of the English Civil Wars of the 1640s, offering a guide to the complex religious divisions of the period and the radical political debate that ensued. A series of short essays provides brief biograph ...Show more
The Armourer and His Craft - From the XIth to the XVIth Century by Charles J. Ffoulkes
$25.00 NZD
Category: Wars of the Ages
Standard reference offers comprehensive, detailed record of 500 years of European armor — manufacture, materials, tools, cost, weight, and more. Over 100 illustrations. Bibliography.
The Complete Roman Army by Adrian Goldsworthy
$35.00 NZD
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Category: Wars of the Ages | Series: The\Complete Ser.
The Roman army was one of the most successful fighting forces in history. Its organization and tactics were highly advanced and were unequaled until the modern era. Spectacular monuments to its perseverance and engineering skill are still visible today, most notably Hadrian’s Wall and the siegeworks aro ...Show more
War before Civilization (P): The Myth of the Peaceful Savage by Keeley
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Category: Wars of the Ages
The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, unimportant, and, like smallpox, a disease of civilized societies alone. Prehistoric warfare, according to ...Show more
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent by Tom Holland
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Category: Wars of the Ages
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shatte ...Show more
A History of England - Before the Norman Conquest by Charles Oman
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Category: Wars of the Ages
The Duel in European History - Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy
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Category: Wars of the Ages
The romance and drama of the duel has made it an enduring attraction in novels, plays, and operas; but it takes on a deeper significance when considered in its social, evolutionary setting. From medieval times, the privilege of duelling was regarded as a badge of rank, an assertion of preeminence by Eur ...Show more
Warrior: A Visual History of the Fighting Man by R.G. Grant
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Category: Wars of the Ages
Focusing on the frontline soldiers who fought for their tribes, their cities, their overlords, and their countries--from the Ancient Greeks to the U.S. Marines in action in the Persian Gulf--this visual history paints a compelling portrait of the frontline soldier through 2,500 years of history.DK