Focusses on day-to-day events in the First Arab-Israeli War, in the air, at sea, and on the groun...

Volume 12 of the Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955 mini-series continues the story of the m...

Crusader Warfare Volume II

This book presents as many aspects as possible of warfare during the period of the crusades withi...

At a time when multiple wars are raging across much of the Middle East, it is almost forgotten th...

In the early decades of the 8th century AD, Islamic forces were flooding into Europe through the ...

This is NOT just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very f...

In 1187, Christian Europe was shaken by events in the Middle East. This volume tells the story of...

In 1373, John of Gaunt set off from Calais on a great raid to strike at the heart of France. Driv...

The Fourth Crusade was the first and most famous of the 'diverted' crusades, that is, ones divert...

The years leading up to the Second World War and into its early years saw the Arab countries and ...

For the overwhelming majority of people outside the French-speaking world the Hundred Years War c...

Osprey's Campaign title for one of the battles in which Muslims attempted to overtake Syria. In 6...

Salah al Din Yusif ibn Ayyub, known to his Muslim contemporaries as al Nasi, 'The Victorious', an...

In 1095 the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I appealed to the Christian states of western Europe for he...

The high point of medieval Islamic expansion was the 700-year presence of the 'Moors' in Spain an...

Charlemagne's conquest of the Saxons was the hardest fought and most protracted of his wars; it i...

After disastrous defeats at the hands of the Mongols in the 13th century, the Russian principalit...

From humble beginnings, in the course of three centuries the Portuguese built the world's first t...

In April 1291, a Mamluk army laid siege to Acre, the last great Crusader fortress in the Holy Lan...

Sixty years since the tripartite aggression of France, Great Britain and Israel against Egypt, th...

The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbou...

1071 yilindaki Malazgirt savasi Bizans ile Dogu Hiristiyanligina mahvedici bir darbe indirmis ve ...

In 1415 King Henry V of England invaded France and won an overwhelming victory at the Battle of A...

Longbows, crossbows, heavy spears, swiss pikes, catapaults, and especially gunpowder artillery an...

The Ottoman Turkish Empire was one of the leading protagonists of World War I, and the stolid cou...

Genc Osmanli sultani 2. Mehmed, iktidarini nihayet saglamlastirdigi 1452 yilinin sonunda sefer ha...

Tarihin en büyük savaslarinin ayrintili dökümleri, hasim kuvvetlerin stratejileri, taktikleri, as...

Born of a mixture of religious fervour, military ardour and political will, the Crusades ( 1095 -...

The Great War of 1914-18 is often seen as one major battleground - the Western Front - with numer...

Medieval Italy was characterized by regular warfare among its numerous city-states, as well as in...

Based on decades of research and newly available sources in Arabic and European languages, and il...

On 26 August 1071 a large Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV met the Saljuq Turk forces of S...

While Scandinavia's 'Viking Age' is one of the most studied aspects of early medieval history, mu...

Facing off against Byzantines, Arabs, Vikings, Turks, Mongols, and Russians, this steppe culture ...

The history of Poland is a fascinating study of a people struggling to achieve nationhood in the ...

Oasprey's study of Ottoman infantrymen during World War I (1914-1918). The Ottoman Army was the f...

In the year 1495, Charles VIII was the youthful King of France, the most powerful state in mediev...

During the Middle Ages, Islam was Christian Europe's only civilized and most troublesome neighbor...

It is generally assumed that the military reforms which propelled Russia into the modern world we...

The 8th century heralded the start of a golden age in the history of the Islamic world. At this t...

When it came to non-gunpowder machine development, the medieval period was one of the most invent...

The Medieval era was a period of huge variety and invention in siege warfare. Before the use of c...

Originally published: New York: Putnam, 1898.

Wielding their swords in the name of their faith, the crusaders originally set out to reclaim Jer...

Osprey's study of the Normans during the Middle Ages. Despite the small geographic extent of Norm...

The clash between King Richard I 'The Lionheart' of England and Saladin has become legendary. Thr...

Opsrey's examination of the Battle of Poitiers, which was fought between France and England in 13...