Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: william urban

10 resultados

william urban Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • BAYONETS AND SCIMITARS
    ebook
    BAYONETS AND SCIMITARS
    WILLIAM URBAN
    A look at the tumult and transformations in warfare during the eighteenth century—and the world-changing events that resulted.   The eighteenth century in Europe was a period of significant economic, political, and technological upheaval—which led to the American and French revolutions, and ultimately paved the way for Europe's domination of much of the world during the ninetee...

    $249.00

    Ver detalle
  • TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
    ebook
    TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
    WILLIAM URBAN
    The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years....

    $101.99

    Ver detalle
  • THE LAST YEARS OF THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
    ebook
    THE LAST YEARS OF THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS
    WILLIAM URBAN
    "The most comprehensive account available of the final years of the crusading military order" from the acclaimed author of Medieval Mercenaries ( Baltische Historiche Kommission). The Battle of Grunwald was one of the largest battles in Medieval Europe and was the most important in the histories of Poland and Lithuania. It was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish-Lithuania-...

    $249.00

    Ver detalle
  • MATCHLOCKS TO FLINTLOCKS
    ebook
    MATCHLOCKS TO FLINTLOCKS
    WILLIAM URBAN
    "A big picture view of how changes in the way war was waged between 1500 and 1700 affected the world at large . . . an exemplary book." —War in History In the early modern world three dominant cultures of war were shaped by a synergy of their internal and external interactions. One was Latin Christian western Europe. Another was Ottoman Islam. The third, no less vital for so of...

    $119.00

    Ver detalle
  • BAYONETS FOR HIRE
    ebook
    BAYONETS FOR HIRE
    WILLIAM URBAN / WILLIAM H. MCNEILL
    An exploration of the changing role of mercenaries in early modern Europe from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution—"A fascinating scholarly work" (Stuart Asquith). "Urban gives a careful and highly readable survey of the highways and byways of18th century warfare, with an enjoyable and arresting emphasis on the individual's experience of war." —John France From the Gr...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS STRIKE EAST
    ebook
    THE TEUTONIC KNIGHTS STRIKE EAST
    WILLIAM URBAN / DARIUS BARONAS
    Written by two leading experts on the Crusades in an enjoyable and compelling style, this is an accessible narrative of a complex political and military history. The history of the Teutonic Knights is one of crusading in an era of wars, intrigues, assassinations and betrayals. Originally established as a hospital order during the Third Crusade in the Holy Land in the late 12th ...

    $216.99

    Ver detalle
  • SMALL WARS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON NATION STATES
    ebook
    SMALL WARS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON NATION STATES
    WILLIAM URBAN
    After 1500, European warfare was repeatedly revolutionized by new weapons, new methods for supplying armies in the field, improved fortifications and new tactics for taking fortifications. This allowed empires to grow, with, for example, the Ottomans expanding into the Middle East and Africa, Britain dominating India, and Russia conquering the steppe.The dynamics of resistance ...

    $382.00

    Ver detalle
  • SMALL WARS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON NATION STATES
    ebook
    SMALL WARS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON NATION STATES
    WILLIAM URBAN
    After 1500, European warfare was repeatedly revolutionized by new weapons, new methods for supplying armies in the field, improved fortifications and new tactics for taking fortifications. This allowed empires to grow, with, for example, the Ottomans expanding into the Middle East and Africa, Britain dominating India, and Russia conquering the steppe.The dynamics of resistance ...

    $329.00

    Ver detalle
  • MEDIEVAL MERCENARIES
    ebook
    MEDIEVAL MERCENARIES
    WILLIAM URBAN
    The Middle Ages were a turbulent and violent time, when the fate of nations was most often decided on the battlefield, and strength of arms was key to acquiring and maintaining power. Feudal oaths and local militias were more often than not incapable of providing the skilled and disciplined warriors necessary to keep the enemy at bay. It was the mercenary who stepped in to fill...

    $164.00

    Ver detalle
  • SMALL WARS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON NATION STATES
    ebook
    SMALL WARS AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON NATION STATES
    WILLIAM URBAN
    After 1500, European warfare was repeatedly revolutionized by new weapons, new methods for supplying armies in the field, improved fortifications and new tactics for taking fortifications. This allowed empires to grow, with, for example, the Ottomans expanding into the Middle East and Africa, Britain dominating India, and Russia conquering the steppe.The dynamics of resistance ...

    $329.00

    Ver detalle