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The Story of Japan's Great Warriors
Four vellum sections build up the layers of armor worn by the samurai, and text by a world-recognized expert on the subject, provide an inimitable loo...
Disaster for the Teutonic Knights
By 1400 the long running conflict between the Teutonic Knights and the Polish-Lithuanian kingdom was coming to a head and in June 1410 the two armies ...
Japan's Korean War, 1592-98
“Lively....Skillfully pieceing together contemporary accounts from Japanese and Korean sources, the author provides a vivid and horrifying picture o...
Bound by a strict code of honor and driven by a fierce sense of loyalty, the elite fighting class of medieval Japan, the samurai were some of the most...
A Military History
Illustrated history of Japanese Samurai warfare....
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A look at Samurai warfare and specific battles in which it was applied....
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
From the Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War
The Art of Renaissance Warfare tells the story of the knight during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries - from the great victories of Edward III an...
The True Story of Japan's Secret Warrior Cult
This is a true and revealing account of the Ninja, the Japanese clandestine warrior cult of assassins and spies that has acquired a legendary status a...
This publication celebrates the 50th anniversary of the "Journal of Documentation". It reviews the progress of documentation and information provision...
Brave, invincible warriors, fighting sword in hand against overwhelming odds. Those were the Samurai. In this the most comprehensive, enthralling look...
Master of War
Samurai tells the story of the courageous and highly disciplined fighting men of this time, showing how they evolved from the primitive fighters of th...
The Great Wall of China is the most extensive and famous example of fortification in the world. Charting its development from construction in the 7th ...
Slaughter at the Barricades
In 1575 Takeda Katsuyori laid siege to Nagashino castle. The Takeda samurai were brave, loyal and renowned for their cavalry charges; but the great ge...
The Ottoman Conquest of Byzantium
Byzantium was the last bastion of the Roman Empire following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It fought for survival for eight centuries until, i...
A Study of Their Development, Beliefs and Rituals to the Present Day
First major study in English of the Japanese 'hidden' Christians - the Kakure Kirishitan, who chose to remain separate from the Catholic Church when r...
The Japanese Warrior's (unofficial) Manual
Combines the latest research with contemporary lives, descriptions, and reconstructions to provide a dramatic picture of what it was like to be a samu...
First published in 1977, The Samurai has long since become a standard work of reference. It continues to be the most authoritative work on samurai lif...
Describes the 1609 raid from Satsuma against Ryåukyåu, detailing the events leading up to the raid, the strategic plans over both land and sea, and ...
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Shrines, Roles and Rituals of Procreation and Protection
Japan’s sexual gods' is an authoritative and original work that describes the unique deities represented by sexual objects in certain Japanese shrin...
Samurai Power Struggle
The Kawanakajima campaign is unique in Japanese history, perhaps even in world history, in that five battles were fought over the same battlefield by ...
The Book of the Daimyō
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Few countries has a warrior tradition as long and as exciting as that of Japan -- and it is embodied in one powerful and romantic figure: the loyal, s...
The Warrior Tradition
Contains Samurai warlords and Samurai warriors. Gives an authoritative coverage of the costume, equipment and characters of the Japanese Samurai. Colo...
The Book of the Daimyo
The Warrior Class of Japan
Japans Greatest Unknown Samurai Battle
In 1587 the 1,000-strong garrison of tiny Tanaka Castle in Higo Province (modern Kumamoto Prefecture) on Japan's southern island of Kyushu, held out f...
Over 20 True Stories of Japan's Secret Assassins
A book where parents and kids can get the real story behind these masters of deception....
A Turning Point in Samurai History
The Ōnin War was the key turning point in samurai warfare. There had been conflicts before, but what made the Ōnin War unique was the fierce street-...