Название: The Crusades: A History, 4th edition
Автор: Jonathan Riley-Smith, Susanna A. Throop
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Год: 2023
Страниц: 481
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 41.9 MB

This fully updated and expanded edition of The Crusades: A History provides an authoritative exploration of one of the most significant topics in medieval and religious history. From the First Crusade right up to the present day, Jonathan Riley-Smith and Susanna Throop investigate the phenomenon of crusading and the crusaders themselves. This book attempts to provide as comprehensive a history of the crusades as is possible in a single volume. Its intended audiences are upper-level undergraduates, graduate/postgraduate students, and scholars who have need of a general historical survey. In a landscape positively crammed with single-volume histories of the crusades, it is distinguished by: a deepened engagement with the approach of pluralism and, as a result, the length and breadth of the narrative; avoidance of a grand or centralizing narrative structure; careful structure and organization; and attention to questions of language and terminology.

Название: A History of War: From Ancient Warfare to the Global Conflicts of the 21st Century
Автор: Chris McNab
Издательство: Arcturus Publishing Limited
Год: 2022
Страниц: 249
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 14.98 MB

A History of War explains the dark but compelling story of warfare, from its emergence in prehistoric tribal disputes, through great imperial and global wars, to present-day counter-insurgency and 'hybrid' conflicts. Two factors sit at the heart of this story: technology - including weapons, vehicle systems and vehicles and tactics. A History of War charts the rise of the army, explaining how primitive tribal war parties evolved through seasonal levies and feudal armies to professional standing armies and mass conscription forces, with formal organisational structures.

Название: Osprey Campaign 44 - Pavia 1525 - The Climax of The Italian Wars
Автор: Angus Konstam
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781855325043
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 96
Размер: 16,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The battle of Pavia has been hailed as the first modern battle, marking the rise of hand held weapons as a tool of warfare. In this titanic clash - the most decisive of the Italian Wars, caused by French territorial ambitions in first the Kingdom of Naples and then the Duchy of Milan - the French troops were smashed by the Spanish Imperial Army. King Francis I was captured, and the cream of his nobility slaughtered. France's greatest defeat since Agincourt, the battle dramatically swung the balance of power in Western Europe.

Название: Full Spectrum: India's Wars, 1972-2020
Автор: Arjun Subramaniam
Издательство: HarperCollins India
ISBN: 9353578051
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 472
Размер: 10,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

The armed forces have played a key role in protecting India's sovereignty and raising its stature as a stable democracy and responsible regional power. Though the nation's soldiers, sailors and airmen occupy a special place in people's hearts, standard narratives of contemporary Indian history rarely cover the military dimension. In his first book, India's Wars.

Название: I Ain't Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America's Wars
Автор: Chris Lombardi
Издательство: The New Press
ISBN: 1620973170
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 306
Размер: 2,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

A sweeping history of the passionate men and women in uniform who have bravely and courageously exercised the power of dissent.
Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new veterans protested. Dissent, the hallowed expression of disagreement and refusal to comply with the government's wishes, has a long history in the United States.

Название: Marlborough's Wars: Eyewitness Accounts, 1702–1713
Автор: James Falkner
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844151700
Год: 2005
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 13,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Many books have been written about the 1st Duke of Marlborough's famous victories, but none of the previous studies has really concentrated on how the warfare was perceived by the men and women who took part - those who experienced the action at first hand.

Название: Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC
Автор: Natale Barca
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526767465
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 2,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much bloodshed. Their leader, a fortune-teller named Eunus, was declared king (taking the Syrian royal name Antiochus), and tens of thousands of runaway slaves as well as poor native Sicilians soon flocked to join his fledgling kingdom.

Название: Звездные войны (Star Wars). Сборник (86 книг)
Автор: Роджер Аллен, Кевин Андерсон и др.
Издательство: Terra Fantastica
Год выпуска: 1996-2018
Страниц: много
Формат: fb2
Размер: 65,3 Мб
Качество: отличное
Язык: русский

Звездные войны - серия книг о тех самых звездных войнах, которые развязал Джордж Лукас своим первым фильмом.