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Here Geoffrey Hindley serves us the history of military sieges from every angle, tracing the development of fortifications and equipment (offensive and defensive), penning vivid portraits of the weapons involved, exploring the psychology of laying siege, and even describing the role played by women and camp followers in battle. He shows siege tactics in action through real-life case studies of famous sieges that changed the course of history in medieval Europe and the Holy Land. His stimulating and accessible study will be fascinating reading for medieval specialists and for anyone who is interested in the history of warfare.
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In Alexander the Great, Anthony Everitt judges Alexander’s life against the criteria of his own age and considers all his contradictions. We meet the Macedonian prince who was naturally inquisitive and fascinated by science and exploration, as well as the man who enjoyed the arts and used Homer’s great epic, the Iliad, as a bible. As his empire grew, Alexander exhibited respect for the traditions of his new subjects and careful judgment in administering rule over his vast territory. But his career also had a dark side.
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Alexander never gets...old.
- De Douglas Knops en 09-04-19
De: Anthony Everitt
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Crusaders
- The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands
- De: Dan Jones
- Narrado por: Dan Jones
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
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For more than 1,000 years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war. When Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between the two religions. Depending on who you ask, the fall of the holy city was either an inspiring legend or the greatest of horrors. In Crusaders, Dan Jones interrogates the many sides of the larger story, charting a deeply human and avowedly pluralist path through the crusading era.
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Gripping but not tidy
- De Tad Davis en 01-06-20
De: Dan Jones
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Castles
- Their History and Evolution in Medieval Britain
- De: Marc Morris
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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Beginning with their introduction in the 11th century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the 17th, Marc Morris explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples. At times this is an epic tale, driven by characters like William the Conqueror, King John, and Edward I, full of sieges and conquest on an awesome scale.
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Great book!
- De B Hart en 06-21-18
De: Marc Morris
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Philip and Alexander
- Kings and Conquerors
- De: Adrian Goldsworthy
- Narrado por: Neil Dickson
- Duración: 20 h y 36 m
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This definitive biography of one of history's most influential father-son duos tells the story of two rulers who gripped the world - and their rise and fall from power.
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Horrible narrator
- De Anonymous User en 01-05-21
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The Crusades: The World's Debate
- De: Hilaire Belloc
- Narrado por: RJ Bayley
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) - one of the most prominent Catholic authors of his time - gives a common-sense explanation of why the Crusades were necessary and why they ultimately failed. Writing in 1937, following the demise of the Ottoman Empire, Belloc believed that the West had finally gained the advantage over its mortal foe; however, he also includes a prophetic warning concerning the eventual resurgence of Islam and its enduring desire to destroy Christendom.
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Brutally Honest Assessment
- De Anonymous User en 12-04-20
De: Hilaire Belloc
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Crécy
- Battle of Five Kings
- De: Michael Livingston
- Narrado por: Rupert Farley
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
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The battle of Crécy in 1346 is one of the most famous and widely studied military engagements in history. The repercussions of this battle were felt for hundreds of years, and the exploits of those fighting reached the status of legend. Yet cutting-edge research has shown that nearly everything that has been written about this dramatic event may be wrong. In this new study, Michael Livingston reveals how modern scholars have used archived manuscripts, satellite technologies and traditional fieldwork to help unlock what was arguably the battle’s greatest secret.
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Fantastic book!
- De C.J.M. 33 en 05-31-23
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A Brief History of the Samurai
- Brief Histories
- De: Jonathan Clements
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerged as a warrior caste in Medieval Japan and would have a powerful influence on the history and culture of the country from the next 500 years. Clements also looks at the Samurai wars that tore Japan apart in the 17th and 18th centuries and how the caste was finally demolished in the advent of the mechanized world.
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An Excellent History of the Samurai
- De Michael en 08-08-14
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- De: William Dalrymple
- Narrado por: Sid Sagar
- Duración: 15 h y 43 m
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The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas in one small office, five windows wide, and answerable only to its distant shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting audiobook to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.
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excellent book but awkward narration
- De TexasVC en 02-25-20
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God's Battalions
- The Case for the Crusades
- De: Rodney Stark
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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In God's Battalions, award-winning author Rodney Stark takes on the long-held view that the Crusades were the first round of European colonialism, conducted for land, loot, and converts by barbarian Christians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. To the contrary, Stark argues that the Crusades were the first military response to unwarranted Muslim terrorist aggression.
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A lively and useful introduction
- De Tad Davis en 01-06-10
De: Rodney Stark
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The Crusades
- A Captivating Guide to the Military Expeditions during the Middle Ages That Departed from Europe with the Goal to Free Jerusalem and Aid Christianity in the Holy Land
- De: Captivating History
- Narrado por: Jason Zenobia
- Duración: 3 h y 37 m
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It could be said that European kings and nobles in the Middle Ages were Crusade mad. The enormous amount of fighting men who periodically sailed off to the Near East to do battle with Muslims are evidence of the widespread popularity of overseas adventurism at the time. The notion of a Crusade, in which large armies assembled from various regions of Europe for the purpose of doing battle with Turkish and Arab Muslims, became so fixed that it was expanded to include Crusades against heretical European Christian sects.
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Difficult to follow
- De A Reyes en 05-23-23
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The Last Viking
- The True Story of King Harald Hardrada
- De: Don Hollway
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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Harald Sigurdsson burst into history as a teenaged youth in a Viking battle from which he escaped with little more than his life and a thirst for vengeance. But from these humble origins, he became one of Norway’s most legendary kings. The Last Viking is a fast-moving narrative account of the life of King Harald Hardrada, as he journeyed across the medieval world, from the frozen wastelands of the North to the glittering towers of Byzantium and the passions of the Holy Land, until his warrior death on the battlefield in England.
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Just okay
- De Amazon Customer en 06-28-24
De: Don Hollway
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Medieval Siege and Siegecraft
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This book has a lot of information that is very good whether or not one akready has some knowledge of medieval war. But the rating is because it wasn't well writen
First it follows the sieges that are popularly known as medieval, such that it could be called late middle ages siegecraft and no one could notice.
Second is that it's disorganized. It is arranged by subject (like construction, logistics, and sacking) even though most of the book is spent on noteworthy sieges and people. The result is that an unorganized series of articles from totally different wars and backgrounds are mixed together.
Third for a book specifically about castle building and sacking it spends a lot of time on chivalric and political aspects of sieges and glosses over most of the engineering techniues that make castle look the way they do.
So, in my opinion, this book needs to decide what it wants to be.
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Plenty of Detail for a Short Book
When you read the longer history tomes, be they about a specific period or maybe a larger overview, the minutae of what goes into siege warefare is usually glossed over with broad strokes. This book is for all of you armchair historians and fantasy gamers out there who want details. This book talks about everything from the weapons and baggage train to the roles of women and the digging of underground tunnels. The more you know about the general history and politics of a given era, the more you'll appreciate the details, but ultimately it's really not necessary as those broad strokes are provided as a reverse of most other history books.
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