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Sir Charles Oman.
The Art of War in the Middle Ages: vol. 1, 378-1278 AD; vol. 2, 1278-1485 AD.
Published London: Greenhill Books, 1991 reissue (reprints the revised edn. of 1924).
ISBN 1853671002 (Vol. 1); 1853671053 (Vol. 2);
ISBN-13: 9781853671005 (Vol. 1); 9781853671050 (Vol. 2).
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Billing & Sons, Worcester.
Size: 142x222x92mm.
Page count: Vol. 1: text xv,326pp; Vol. 2: text xi,459pp, plates 4pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjackets are scuffed but not badly worn; some grubby marks on the page edges, bindings starting to sag slightly, and the pages yellowed with age, otherwise the books themselves look in good order, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £15.00 for 2‑vol. set
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Various POD editions available]
Weight without packaging: 1543g.

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Contents:

Vol. 1: Last days of the legion, AD 235-450; Commencement of supremacy of cavalry, 450-552; Visigoths, Lombards & Franks; Anglo-Saxons; Charles the Great & early Carolingians; Vikings; Vikings turned back — feudal horseman & feudal castle — thegn & burh; Magyars; Arms & armour (800-1100); Siegecraft & fortification; Last struggles of infantry — Hastings & Dyrrhachium; Byzantines — Historical development of Byzantine army — Arms & organisation — Strategy & tactics — Decline; Crusades — Grand strategy — Tactics — Great defeats; Western Europe — Armies of 12th & 13th cc.; English battles & their tactics (1100-1200) — (1200-1272); Continental battles (1100-1278).

Vol. 2: Arms & armour (1100-1300); Fortification (1100-1300); Siegecraft (1100-1300); Edward I & his Welsh wars — development of longbow; Falkirk & Bannockurn; Archery & dismounted cavalry — Dupplin & Halidon Hill; Commencement of Hundred Years' War — armies of Edward III; Longbow in France — Creçy; Creçy to Poictiers; Poictiers, September 19, 1356; Navarette & Aljubarotta; France & England (1369-96) — failure of policy of Edward III; Invention of gunpowder & cannon; Cannon in wars of 14th & 15th cc.; Origins of Swiss infantry — Morgarten, Laupn, Sempach; Character, arms & organisation of Swiss armies (1315-1515); Swiss battles of 15th c.; Causes of decline of Swiss ascendancy; Italy in 14th c. & 15th c. — Condottieri; Eastern Europe & the Tartars; South-Eastern Europe & Ottoman Turks (1300-1500); Eastern Europe & Hussites (1420-40); France & England (1400-22) — Agincourt; Expulsion of English from France — Orleans, Formigny, Castillon; Wars of the Roses; Conclusion.

Illustrations: 10 text figures and 4 pages of plates, all monochrome
Maps & plans: 40

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 7
Genealogies: no
Chronology: battles
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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