DAVID NICOLLE

In text, photographs and colour plates, this book describes the uniforms, weaponary and military customs of the French Medieval armies.

Covers the development of Russian Armies between the medieval and modern period.

This period between 1300 and 1500 saw profound changes, as Scandinavia became influenced by military events and developments elsewhere in Europe. This work examines the traces of wounds on the thousand-plus skeletons offering insights into the realities of medieval fighting.

From humble beginnings, in the course of three centuries the Portuguese built the world's first...

Volume 5 in this series on the enemies of Imperial Rome. This volume details those who threatened the Empire's desert frontiers including the Berberi of North Africa, the Arabs, and the Parthians and Sassanids of Persia.

After the fall of the crusader kingdom of Edessa, the Pope called for a new crusade in 1145. This...

Few, if any, centuries in world history have had such a profound and long-lasting impact as the...

By the late 4th century the pressures on the frontiers of the Roman Empire had transformed the nature of the army which defended it into a mobile unit. This book details the rise of the army and its evolution, after the collapse of the west, into the army of the Byzantine Empire.