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Download or read book Warhorse written by Phil Sidnell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cavalry were an important part of almost every ancient army, yet modern writers have neglected them in favour of the infantry of the Greek phalanx and the Roman legions. Warhorse seeks to correct this injustice. Phil Sidnell challenges the common view that ancient cavalry were useful for scouting and raiding but left the real fighting to the foot soldiers. In fact, he argues, they were often used in a shock role and proved decisive on many occasions. The famous victories of great generals such as Alexander, Hannibal and Julius Caesar could not have been won without a full appreciation of the battle-winning potential of the cavalry. Drawing heavily on the ancient sources, Warhorse takes the reader on a thrilling ride through numerous vividly recreated battles, from the earliest civilizations to the Battle of Hastings, to reveal the horsemen of the ancient world in their full and deadly glory. 'A wonderful book ... written in a very clear and quick-paced writing style. It should become a classic.' PETER G. TSOURAS, US defence intelligence analyst and author and editor of many books, including Alexander: The Invincible King of Macedonia. 'Sidnell has produced a highly readable study of the combat role of cavalry in the ancient world ... argues his point in an imaginative thorough fashion ... this book will appeal to a wide range of readers.' CHOICE, June 2007
Book Synopsis The Roman Cavalry by : Karen R. Dixon
Download or read book The Roman Cavalry written by Karen R. Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cavalry was a vital part of the army of Rome and it played a significant role in the expansion and success of the Roman Empire. Karen R. Dixon and Pat Southern describe the origins of the mounted units of the Roman army and trace their development from temporary allied troops to the regular alae and cohorts. They have drawn together evidence from a wide variety of sources: archaeological, epigraphic and literary, as well as comparing ancient testimony with more recent experience of the use of cavalry. The book covers the subject from the perspective of both the men and the horses. How were the horses selected and disposed of; how were they trained, stabled and fed? How were the men recruited, organized and equipped; and what were the conditions of service for a Roman cavalryman? The cavalry had to be employed in peacetime and this is discussed as well as its role in war. The image of the Roman cavalry is often one of excitement and glory but the authors are aware that a true picture must not overlook the routine and the suffering. This book provides a comprehensive account of the Roman cavalry and the current state of knowledge concerning it. The wide selection of illustrations includes original drawings by Karen R. Dixon.
Book Synopsis Late Roman Combat Tactics by : Ilkka Syvänne
Download or read book Late Roman Combat Tactics written by Ilkka Syvänne and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Roman military strategies and adaptations from the Tetrarchy to Heraclius. Late Roman Combat Tactics by Dr. Ilkka Syvänne is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand land combat in the period from the Tetrarchy to the death of Heraclius, a period when the Romans faced serious and growing military threats on many fronts. The author’s detailed analysis provides the reader with a complete understanding of the combat equipment worn by the soldiers, types of troops, tactics, different unit orders and formations used by the late Romans and their enemies. Importantly, he lays out the developments and changes in these aspects across this critical period, assessing how the Romans adapted, or failed to adapt to the varied and changing array of enemies, such as Persians, Avars and Arabs. The discussion examines how the Romans fought at every level, so that it covers everything from the individual fighting techniques all the way up to the conduct of large-scale pitched battles. There is an immense amount of technical detail but the human element and the experience of the officers and ordinary soldiers is not forgotten, with such factors as morale and the psychology of battle (the ‘face of battle’) given due consideration. The thoroughly researched text is well supported by dozens of diagrams and illustrations. A thoroughly illuminating read on its own, Late Roman Combat Tactics is also the perfect companion to Dr Syvänne’s eight-volume Military History of Late Rome.
Download or read book Ancient Warfare written by Geoff Lee and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides chapters on current research into ancient warfare. It is a collection with a wide-range, covering a long chronological spread, with many historical themes, including some that have recently been rather neglected. It has wide academic relevance to a number of on-going debates on themes in ancient warfare. Each topic covered is coherently presented, and offers convincing coverage of the subject area. There is a high standard of scholarship and presentation; chapters are well documented with extensive bibliographies. It is readable and successful in engaging the reader’s attention, and presents subject matter in an accessible way. The book will particularly appeal to professional historians, students and a wider audience of those interested in ancient warfare.
Book Synopsis Philosophers of War by : Daniel Coetzee
Download or read book Philosophers of War written by Daniel Coetzee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 1049 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This user-friendly reference systematically covers the entire intellectual history of strategy and war, in all cultures and all times. Each culture has had its Machiavelli, its Sun Tzu; its own Mohammed-like or Napoleonic figure. This encyclopedia ranges across the world to provide entries on every significant military and strategic thinker in human history as well as a number of military cultures, covering Chinese, Western, Indian, Islamic, and other cultures. Each entry supplies a brief biography, a synopsis of the writer's theories, their success or failure, and their impact on other thinkers and military practitioners. The unique coverage allows readers to cross cultural barriers and gain access to sources in languages as diverse as Arabic and German, and to note key similarities and contrasts. The relative importance and contribution of each individual to intellectual progress is noted, as is the greater significance of specific schools of thought and debates.
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Pinelliana by : Maffeo Pinelli
Download or read book Bibliotheca Pinelliana written by Maffeo Pinelli and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of a Very Extensive Collection of Aldine Publications; of Greek and Latin Manuscripts Upon Vellum and Paper; of First Editions, and Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century, Etc. (1826.). by : Payne and Foss
Download or read book A Catalogue of a Very Extensive Collection of Aldine Publications; of Greek and Latin Manuscripts Upon Vellum and Paper; of First Editions, and Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century, Etc. (1826.). written by Payne and Foss and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of first editions, and books printed in the fifteenth century [&c.]. by : Payne and Foss
Download or read book Catalogue of first editions, and books printed in the fifteenth century [&c.]. written by Payne and Foss and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Books by : Henry George Bohn
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books written by Henry George Bohn and published by New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1841 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of Valuable Books, in All Languages and Sciences; Lately Purchased and Imported from Abroad: Many of the Articles are Upon Large Paper, ... Which are Now Selling 1793 ... by James Robson, ... by : James Robson
Download or read book A Catalogue of Valuable Books, in All Languages and Sciences; Lately Purchased and Imported from Abroad: Many of the Articles are Upon Large Paper, ... Which are Now Selling 1793 ... by James Robson, ... written by James Robson and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The first volume, for the year 1757, of a catalogue of the libraries of many eminent persons, lately deceas'd. Which will continue selling to 1st Jan. 1758, at T. Osborne's and J. Shipton's by : T. Osborne
Download or read book The first volume, for the year 1757, of a catalogue of the libraries of many eminent persons, lately deceas'd. Which will continue selling to 1st Jan. 1758, at T. Osborne's and J. Shipton's written by T. Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Greek and Roman Military Manuals by : James T. Chlup
Download or read book Greek and Roman Military Manuals written by James T. Chlup and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the enigmatic primary source known as the ancient military manual. In particular, the volume explores the extent to which these diverse texts constitute a genre (sometimes unsatisfactorily classified as ‘technical literature’), and the degree to which they reflect the practice of warfare. With contributions from a diverse group of scholars, the chapters examine military manuals from early Archaic Greece to the Byzantine period, covering a wide range of topics including readership, siege warfare, mercenaries, defeat, textual history, and religion. Coverage includes most of the major contemporary siege manual writers, including Xenophon, Frontinus, Vegetius, and Maurice. Close examination of these texts serves to reveals the complex ways in which ancient Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines sought to understand better, and impose order upon, the seemingly irrational phenomenon known as war. Providing insight into the multifaceted collection of texts that constituted military manuals, this volume is a key resource for students and scholars of warfare and military literature in the classical and Byzantine periods.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Books by : Henry George Bohn
Download or read book Catalogue of Books written by Henry George Bohn and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bookseller's catalogues by : Henry George Bohn
Download or read book Bookseller's catalogues written by Henry George Bohn and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Elephants & Kings by : Thomas R. Trautmann
Download or read book Elephants & Kings written by Thomas R. Trautmann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Books: pt. 1. Greek and Latin classics, with commetaries and translations by : Henry George Bohn
Download or read book Catalogue of Books: pt. 1. Greek and Latin classics, with commetaries and translations written by Henry George Bohn and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches from Antiquity to Early Modern Times written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthologies of speeches excerpted from history books constitute a relatively little-known rhetorical and bibliographic genre. From ancient times to the present day, the practice of culling characters’ orations from one or more works and publishing them independently of their original source has produced new and different ways of reading and using history. Anthologies of Historiographical Speeches offers an introduction to the very diverse questions that arise from the study of the genre through a variety of approaches and methodological tools. Lying at the point where rhetoric and historiography intersect, the essays included in this volume focus on the rhetorical aspects of the collections, as well as on their production, transmission, and reception from antiquity to the early modern period.
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