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Born amid immense suffering and bloodshed, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remained a battlefield for almost 200 years. The Crusades gave rise to the Mili...

The Saljuq Turks’ defeat of the Byzantines at Manzikert opened the way for their conquest of Anatolia and domination of the Near East.On 26 August ...

The 8th century heralded the start of a golden age in the history of the Islamic world. At this time, the Sunni Muslim 'Abbãsid Caliphate, with its...

Medieval Italy was characterized by regular warfare among its numerous city-states, as well as internal strife within comunes as aristocratic facti...

By the late 4th century the pressures on the frontiers of the Roman Empire had transformed the nature of the army which defended it. With the weste...

The technological relationship between the three main civilizations of the Western world - Byzantium, the Islamic world and the West - most particu...

New archaeological material and research underpins this extensive, detailed and beautifully illustrated account of the famous Mamluk Askars who are...

Following the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, the Ottoman Empire undertook a massive military retraining program. Although many histories have depicted t...

Rome's desert frontier was one where the Empire faced few dangers, for here relations were generally based on a mutual interest in trade across the...

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were a time of great upheaval for medieval France. In 1328 the Capetian line came to an end. This was the tr...

In the centuries following the first expeditions down the great rivers of northern Russia by Viking traders and adventurers, the foundations for a ...

The Janissaries comprised an élite corps in the service of the Ottoman Empire. It was composed of war captives and Christian youths pressed into se...

The Ottoman Turkish Empire was one of the leading protagonists of World War I, and the stolid courage of the individual Ottoman soldier was recogni...

A fully-illustrated history of Muslim Arabs in the 7th century AD, including the formation of the Umayyad Caliphate, and the Abbasid Revolution.The...

The Great War of 1914-18 is often seen as one major battleground – the Western Front – with numerous 'side-shows'. The other battle zones were not ...

The story of Venice is, to some extent, separate from that of the rest of Europe. The same could be said of the city's military history and organis...

Of all the conquerors who swept out of Central Asia, two names stand out in European memory – Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan the Mongol. Both are ...

A fully-illustrated history of Anglo-Saxon England and its conflicts, including the Celts, Picts, Irish, and Vikings, from the 6th through to the 1...

The birth of the Ottoman state is shrouded in legend. Whatever the truth of its origins, the Ottoman's formed an Empire which almost succeeded in b...

The Military Order of Teutonic Knights was one of the three most famous Crusading Orders, on a par with the Templars and the Hospitallers. Original...

This fully illustrated study explores the armies of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain states within what are now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka ...

This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century....

The Khazars were one of the most important Turkic peoples in European history, dominating vast areas of southeastern Europe and the western reaches...