Military - Ancient To Renaissance from Capricorn Books

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 335 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, colour plates. "In 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they carved out a Christian European presence in the Islamic world that remained for centuries, bolstered by subsequent waves of new crusades and pilgrimages. But how did medieval Muslims understand… Read more about this item

Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. 208 pp, 9 3/4" H. Map endpapers, b&w and colour illustrations. "From the day they were first written, Julius Caesar's seven books of 'Commentaries', on his campaigns in Gaul (58 to 50 BC) - modern France, Belgium, southern Netherlands, Germany west of the Rhine, most of Switzerland - have provided an unmatched account of… Read more about this item

London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. 240 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, maps, charts, reproductions. "New discoveries in genetics have overturned the dogma of decades about the Celts. Today Celtic languages cling to precarious life on the northwestern fringes of Europe. Delve into the pre-Roman past and we find Celtic spoken across the contintent. The heritage of the Celts… Read more about this item

Vancouver / Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2006. 411 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. "The shared history of Christianity and Islam began in the ealy seventh century AD with a question: Who would inherit the Greco-Roman world of the Mediterranean? Sprung from the same source - Abraham and the Revelation given to the Jews - the two… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 2012. 296 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations, maps. "Politcally astute, ambitious, and beautiful, Yolande of Aragon, queen of Sicily, was one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Caught in the complex dynastic battle of the Hundred Years War, Yolande championed the dauphin's cause against the forces of England and Burgundy, drawing on… Read more about this item

London: Brockhampton Press, 1999. 224 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w plates, map. "In this hugely entertaining and informative study, John Wilcox selects just six military classes which he proposes as elite performers, superstars amongst generations of warriors of all races, creeds and colours. He selects: The Longbowmen of England; The Vikings of the North; The Riflemen of Saratoga; The… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2005. 366 pp, 9 1/4" H. "The second son of a minor English landowner, John Hawkwood chose to head south in 1360 after serving as a captain in the Black Prince's war against France. He and other freebooters successfully held the Avignon pope to ransom, and when they were paid to desist and go to… Read more about this item

London: Folio Society, 2002. 244 pp, 252 pp, 232 pp - 3 volumes, 9" H, bound in blocked printed parchment (colour illustrations on front boards), gilt lettering on spines. Volumes 1 & 3 have map endpapers, all three volumes have colour and b&w plates. Red slipcase with gilt titling on front panel. Volume 1 contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Troyes: 1250;… Read more about this item

New York: W.W. Norton, 2018. 334 pp, 9 1/2" H. Colour and b&w plates, b&w maps. "When Graham Robb moved to a lonely house on the very edge of England, he discovered that the river winding around his new home had once marked the southern boundary of the legendary Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain,… Read more about this item

New York: A.L. Burt 2 volume set, approximately 8" H. Half-leather binding with medium-brown spines and corners, marbled paper-covered boards, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Spines have five raised bands, gilt lettering/decoration and two leather labels (1 red, 1 black) bearing the title, author's last name and volume number. B&w plates, including tissue-guarded frontispieces, genealogical tables, maps - all present.… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam, 2011. 233 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps. "(R)eveals why the battle happened, how it was fought, and whether, in fact, it saved Western civilization. Lacy brilliantly reconstructs the world of the fifth century B.C. leading up to the astonishing military defeat of the Persian Empire by the vastly outnumbered but determined Greek defenders. He shows… Read more about this item

London: HarperPress, 2010. 353 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w maps, photographs, reproductions. "In the final century of the first Roman Republic an army of slaves brought a peculiar terror to the people of Italy. Its leaders were gladiators. Its purpose was incomprehensible. Its success was something no one before had ever known. The Spartacus Road is the route along… Read more about this item

New York: Walker, 2009. 365 pp, 9 1/2" H. Colour plates, b&w maps, genealogical charts. "Amid intrique, betrayal, and conspiracy, Joanna I of Sicily became the only female monarch of her day to rule in her own name, and one of the most courageous women in history. Married for political advantage at the age of seven to her six-year-old… Read more about this item

Newcastle upon Tyne : Frank Graham, 1984. 320 pp, 9 5/8" H. "With well over 400 illustrations, 71 of them in colour, this book describes what the Roman Wall was like when in use. It tells us about the soldiers who built and garrisoned it and the civilians who lived in the towns and villages scattered along its length.… Read more about this item

London: Pimlico, 2004. 344 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, drawings, maps. "The chariot changed the face of ancient warfare. First in West Asia and Egypt, then in India and China, charioteers came to dominate the battlefield. In 1274 B.C. at Kadesh in present-day Syria - where the untried pharoah Ramesses II was nearly defeated by the Hittites… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 396 pp, 10" H. B&w and colour photographs, reproductions, maps. "(R)e-creates the real experience of medieval warfare, examining how men of all ranks of society were recruited, how troops were fed, supplied and deployed, the development of new weapons, and the structures of military command. (The author) challenges many common assumptions… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1971. 300 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w drawings, map endpapers. "(T)he story of the British soldier in the age of fighting as a profession, from Anglo-Saxon times to the French Revolution. It is not the history of campaigns and regiments but of the men who went to war: their story told in their… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1960. 505 pp, 8 1/2" H. "The first modern Russian was Peter the Great. In this enthralling biography of that remarkable, revolutionary ruler, Ian Grey paints a superbly illuminating portrait - clean, clear, objective, without malice or sentimentality. Here we have, life-size, not only the great Tsar, but the man who fell in love… Read more about this item

New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1990. 176 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w illustrations. Signed by author on half title page. "Inspired by her love for France, by her determination to see the rightful king rule, and especially by her private visions and voices, Joan (of Arc) overcame the doubts of everyone from her parents to the king himself.… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2001. 128 pp, 11 1/4" H. "The crusades, of which there were several, conducted by many forcees from different nations, were ultimately unsuccessful, the last crusaders being forced out of the Holy Land in 1291. However, as this fascinating history shows, they did serve to advance many military concepts. Notable among these were the… Read more about this item