Brill 's Series History of Warfare presents the latest research on all aspects of military history. Publications in the series examine technology, strategy, logistics, and social development related to warfare in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East from ancient times until the mid twentieth century. The series accepts high-quality monographs, collections of essays, conference proceedings, and translations of military texts.
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 189 p. — (History of Warfare 88). Current military historiography has a tendency to portray the military effectiveness of non-western, post-colonial states in broad generalized stereotypes. This monograph examines the militaries of Nigeria, Argentina, Egypt and India in times of crisis to challenge these assumptions. The book shows that...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 190 p. — (History of Warfare 107). This book suggests a general framework for the analysis of formative factors in military thought and offers an account of the Israel Defense Force’s state of intellectualism and modernity. This account is followed by an attempt to trace the factors that have shaped Israeli military thought. The explanations...
Brill, 2011. — 272 p. — (History of Warfare 67).
This book examines Byzantine attitudes towards warfare at a time of crisis when the empire ceased to be a first rate power in the Mediterranean. It investigates the correspondence between official rhetoric and propaganda, on the one hand, and military realities, on the other. It explores the military ethos of the late Byzantine...
Leiden: Brill, 2011. — 285 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 68). These essays honor Dennis Showalter, a pioneer in the field of military history and a mentor to an entire generation of scholars. The essays themselves are written by some of the best-known and most highly-respected scholars in the field. They span the globe and cover a wide range of military history topics from...
Brill, 2013. — 851 p. — (History of Warfare, 91).
Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States is the first study to comprehensively treat an aspect of Byzantine, Western, early Islamic, Slavic and Steppe military history within the framework of common descent from Roman military organization to 800 AD. This not only encompassed the army proper, but also a...
Brill, 2018. — 489 p. — (History of Warfare 118). This is a collection of essays that aims to offer a vertical history of war in the Mediterranean Sea, from the early Middle Ages to early modernity, putting the emphasis on the changing face of several different aspects and contexts of war over time. The Mediterranean has always attracted the imagination of modern historians as...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 395 p. — (History of Warfare 108). In King of Battle: Artillery in World War I, a distinguished array of authors examines the centrepiece of battle in the Great War: artillery. Going beyond the usual tables of calibres and ranges, the contributors consider the organization and technology of artillery, as well as present aspects of training,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. — 465 p. — (History of Warfare 58). This important new book provides the first detailed and clear analysis of the Scots involvement in naval warfare during the early modern period. The lazy use by both contemporaries and some modern authors of the word ‘piracy’ as a catch-all for all sorts of maritime activity obscures a complex picture of...
BRILL, 2012. — 415 p. — (History of Warfare 73). This book sets out to explore the contribution of the Society of Jesus to the dissemination of knowledge about military architecture in the Baroque age. It shows how the Jesuits developed a militant form of religious expression targeted at protestants and infidels and how many Jesuit mathematicians assisted Catholic leaders by...
Brill, 2011. — 539 p. — (History of Warfare 71). This book presents the results obtained from the historical and archaeological investigations carried out in the framework of a project centred on the site of Shayzar, in Central Syria: Shayzar Project: study of the fortified settlement in Bilad al-Sham. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the archaeological evidence, and of...
Brill, 2002. — 265 p. — (History of Warfare 9). Warfare, and the circumstances surrounding it, have often provided important impulses for cultural production. This book explores the relationship between warfare and image-making in the early modern period. Rather than dealing with images simply as reproductions of actual events, the volume demonstrates complex processes by which...
Brill, 2002. — 1132 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 8). There is perhaps no other more lively area for study in medieval history than medieval military history, with its attendant and complementary field, the history of medieval military technology. In the past twenty years, it seems that more major scholarly inroads have been made in this field than in any other historical...
Brill, 2008. — 504 p. — (History of Warfare, 46). This is the second update of A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, which appeared in 2002. It is meant to do two things: to present references to works on medieval military history and technology not included in the first two volumes; and to present references to all books and articles published...
Brill, 2019. — 424 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 125). This book honors the life and work of Dr. John F. Guilmartin, Jr., an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, a Professor of History, and our esteemed mentor. Joe was a model servant of the Republic, serving through deed and word. For 23 years he protected the citizenry in the United States Air Force, and, for 40 years afterwards,...
Brill, 2010. — 372 p. — (History of Warfare 59). Ten leading scholars of ancient warfare offer new insights on several aspects of military activity from the Later Bronze Age to the Roman Empire. They make significant contributions to understanding warfare on land and sea, to the social and economic aspects of war, and to battlefield experience. The studies illustrate the ways...
Brill, 2019. — 326 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 126). The World of the Siege examines relations between the conduct and representations of early modern sieges. The volume offers case studies from various regions in Europe (England, France, the Low Countries, Germany, the Balkans) and throughout the world (the Chinese, Ottoman and Mughal Empires), from the 15th century into...
Brill, 2014. — 369 p. — (History of Warfare 97). Entrepreneurs, Military Supply, and State Formation in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods: New Directions Jeff Fynn-Paul, Marjolein ’t Hart and Griet Vermeesch The Medieval Origins of Military Entrepreneurialism Military Enterprise in Florence at the Time of the Black Death, 1349–1350 William Caferro Military...
Brill, 2009. — 425 p. — (History of Warfare 52). “A sorry and very lamentable thing:” the high command of the Army of Flanders, from victory to defeat The Eighty Years War, 1567–1659 Noble class and status in Early Modern Spain The structure of the high command and the duties of its major tactical ranks Infantry Cavalry Artillery The garrisons: Governors and Castellans...
Leiden: Brill, 2004. — 250 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 22). This book documents the commitment of the commanders of King Charles I's armies to religious observance and moral discipline. Through a close textual analysis of printed military regulations, royal proclamations, and injunctions, a long tradition of British military regulation is outlined and developmental patterns...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. — 847 p. — (History of Warfare 16). Preclassical and indigenous non-western military institutions and methods of warfare are the chief subjects of this annotated bibliography of work published from 1967 to 1997. Classical antiquity, post-Roman Europe, and the westernized armed forces of the 20th century, although covered, receive less systematic...
Brill, 2012. — 625 p. — (History of Warfare 74) — ISBN: 978-90-04-21217-6. Military institutions have everywhere and always shaped the course of history, but women’s near universal participation in them has largely gone unnoticed. This volume addresses the changing relationships between women and armed forces from antiquity to the present. The eight chapters in Part I present...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. — 302 p. — (History of Warfare 36). Logistics is a central concern for military strategists, but the study of logistics in the past entails far more than merely military aspects. The study of resources and their production, distribution and consumption in pre-modern societies, of road-networks and communications, and of transportation, is an...
Leiden - Boston: Brill Academic Pub., 2016. — 619 p. — (History of Warfare 112). Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbucher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe. The first part of the book deals with methodological and specific issues for...
Brill, 2020. — 539 p. — (History of Warfare 131). Carl von Clausewitz is still considered one of the most important writers on military strategy. In Prussian Military Thought 1815-1830: Beyond Clausewitz , Jacek Jędrysiak offers a new perspective on the context of his legacy, with a detailed analysis of Prussian military thought after the Napoleonic wars and an examination of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 259 p. — (History of Warfare 104). In Echoes of Success, Ian Stuart Kelly uses new information about late Victorian Scottish Highland battalions to provide new insights into how groups identify themselves, and pass that sense on to successive generations of soldiers. Kelly applies concepts from organisational theory (the study of how...
Brill, 2010. — 292 p. — (History of Warfare, v. 60). Proto-colonial archaeology explores the physical origins of the world culture that evolved out of contacts made in the Age of Exploration, from Columbus to Cromwell. The early defended sites show how colonizing Europeans first responded to the challenges of new environments and new peoples, and how their choices led to...
Brill, 2021. — 480 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 132). This book offers an in-depth examination of the conflict of 1838 to 1840 between the Zulus and the Boers. Leśniewski reflects on the established historiography and reappraises some key conceptions of the war. The conflict has often been seen as a colonial war, with the Zulus cast into the role of either villains or...
Brill, 2002. — 575 p. — (History of Warfare. Volume 14). Throughout Russian history, the army has played a vital role as a catalyst of historical development and social change. While the history of battles, strategy, and the army as an institution have all received a fair amount of attention from historians, the kind of sustained research and discussion of the relationships...
Brill, 2024. — 536 p. — (History of Warfare, vol. 144). The Roman army represented an important social and organizational reference model for the Romano-Barbarian societies, which progressively replaced the Western Empire in the transition from Late Antiquity to Early Middle Ages. The great flexibility of the decision-making and organizational solutions used by the Roman army...
Leiden, Brill, 2003. — 245 p. — (History of Warfare. Volume 17). This volume examines Scots, goodly serving as military governors in the empires of Denmark-Norway, Sweden, Russia, and the Atlantic and South Asian sectors of the British Empire with a view to understanding Scotland's distinctive participation within European imperialism.
Brill, 2022. — 228 p. — (History of Warfare. Vol. 141). This book reassesses the military and diplomatic capacity of the Stuart state in the run up to the British Civil Wars and fundamentally challenges the prevailing theory that there was little or no English engagement in the Thirty Years’ War. The granting of permission to levy soldiers for the armies of nations such as the...
Leiden, Brill, 2007. — 390 p. — (History of Warfare. Volume 41). Vauban under Siege is the first systematic comparison of the theory of Vaubanian siegecraft with its reality. It places Vauban's siege accomplishments back into their broader context, highlighting his continuation of the quest for ever-greater efficiency pursued by a century of military engineers. Based on a...
Brill, 2019. — 376 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 124). In A World At War, 1911-1949 , leading and emerging scholars of the cultural history of the two world wars begin to break down the traditional barriers between the historiographies of the two conflicts, identifying commonalities as well as casting new light on each as part of a broader mission, in honour of Professor John...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. — 579 p. — (History of Warfare 70). There is no single volume which covers the Indian Army’s experiences during the two World Wars. And this is what the present edited volume attempts to do. This collection of 17 essays analyze the army as an institution and also touch upon the cultural ethos of the army and related social issues. Thus, this...
Brill, 2024. — 364 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume, 147). This book discusses the role Western military books and their translations played in 17th-century Russia. By tracing how these translations were produced, distributed and read, the study argues that foreign military treatises significantly shaped intellectual culture of the Russian elite. It also presents Tsar Peter the...
Brill, 2003. — 344 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 18). This volume explores French partisan warfare in the Spanish Netherlands during the Dutch War (1672-1678). It considers such practices as contributions, fire-raids, and blockades before sieges. The author relies extensively on archival sources, and in many cases explores events that have been passed over by similar...
Leiden: Brill, 2018. — 489 p. — (History of warfare 118). This is a collection of essays that aims to offer a vertical history of war in the Mediterranean Sea, from the early Middle Ages to early modernity, putting the emphasis on the changing face of several different aspects and contexts of war over time.
Brill, 2005. — 536 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 34). This volume reconceptualizes amphibious warfare and also fills an important gap in its historiography, examining how it was conceived, practised and employed, from the Crusades, through the first wave of European exploration and colonization, the Price Revolution and the European wars of religion, up to the early...
Brill, 2020. — 284 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 128). In Medieval Fortifications in Cilicia Dweezil Vandekerckhove offers an account of the origins, development and spatial distribution of fortified sites in the Armenian Kingdom (1198-1375). Despite the abundance of archaeological remains, the Armenian heritage had previously not been closely studied. However, through the...
Brill, 2005. — 242 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 31). The development treated in this volume of a variety of staff weapons in the Medieval and Renaissance periods in Europe is of importance, as the repeated success of their use caused substantive political changes. Their typology, use, and smithing techniques as well as correlations with contemporary artistic renditions, are...
Brill, 2021. — 208 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 134). In Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire , Conor Whately examines Procopius’ coverage of rank-and-file soldiers in his three works, the Wars, Buildings, and Secret History. By evaluating his accounts alongside other comparative evidence, such as the edicts of Anastasius,...
Leiden: Brill, 2004. — 330 p. — (History of Warfare. Volume 21). Between 1618 and 1648, a number of Scottish expatriates appeared at the major centres of Habsburg dynastic power: Madrid, Brussels, and the peripatetic court of the Holy Roman Emperor. In dealing with their military activities, this book challenges the notion that France or the northern Low Countries invariably...
Brill, 2011. — 384 p. — (History of Warfare 65). Usually it is a foreign military threat or the geopolitical position of a country that attracts the most attention as a factor to explain the emergence of the national security policies of small, neutral powers like the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland in the period 1900-1940. While these factors may explain...
Brill Academic Pub., 2016. — 304 p. — (History of Warfare 109). This edited volume examines the experience of World War I of small nations, defined here in terms of their relative weakness vis-a-vis the major actors in European diplomacy, and colonial peripheries, encompassing areas that were subject to colonial rule by European empires and thus located far from the heartland...
Brill, 2009. — 201 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 54). The growing military, political and socio-economic costs for all belligerents as the Great War entered its fourth year were increasingly evident, liberal democracies and authoritarian states alike having to remobilise public opinion for yet greater sacrifices. While the Western Front was facing these challenges, 1917 was...
Brill, 2002. — 284 p. — (History of warfare, Vol. 5). The emperors of the Komnenian dynasty orchestrated the economic and military renewal of the Byzantine Empire. In 1081, Alexios I became emperor of a bankrupt and diminished empire. In 1180, Manuel I ruled the most powerful state in the eastern Mediterranean, capable of sending expeditions to Egypt, Hungary, Italy, and...
Brill, 2013. — 498 p. — (History of Warfare 84). As the title suggests, "Beyond the Burghal Hidage" takes the study of Anglo-Saxon civil defence away from traditional historical and archaeological fields, and uses a groundbreaking interdisciplinary approach to examine warfare and public responses to organised violence through their impact on the landscape. By bringing together...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 761 p. — (History of Warfare 50). From their humble beginnings in Jerusalem as a late eleventh-century hospital and an early twelfth-century pilgrim escort, Hospitallers and Templars evolved into international military religious orders, engaged in numerous charitable, economic, and military pursuits. At the heart of each of these communities,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 328 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 103). The preachers of the crusades often tried to persuade their audiences that in the business of the crusade there were immense spiritual wages to be gained for a short labour. Many times in the process of writing this study, which was originally defended for the degree of Ph.D. at the University of...
Leiden, Brill, 2006. — 272 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 37). This collection of articles offers new insights into warfare and its impact on medieval society, analyzing social and economic issues, military strategy, technology, medical developments, ideology and rhetoric, and addressing warfare in Europe, the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world.
Brill, 2013. — 536 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 87). While the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 was a pivotal moment in European history and precipitated the outbreak of the Second World War western historiography has largely neglected Northern Europe. Two questions dominated the course of events, the Anglo-German contest for control of the access to the Atlantic...
Brill, 2019. — 482 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 123). In The Representation of External Threats, Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde present a collection of articles that trace the phenomenon of external threats in a multitude of settings across Asia, America, and Europe. The scope ranges from military threats against the Byzantine rulers of the 7th century to...
Brill, 2012. — 586 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 80). In "The Seven Years’ War: Global Views", Mark H. Danley, Patrick J. Speelman, and sixteen other contributors reach beyond traditional approaches to illuminate the conflict as world war. An introduction addresses the challenges of discretely defining the war. Chapters examine theaters such as the Carnatic, Bengal, the...
Brill, 2012. — 364 p. — (History of Warfare 72). This volume examines continuities and new developments in the conduct of warfare in early modern Eastern Europe from the early sixteenth century, when Ottoman imperial expansion reached the Danube and Crimea, to the late eighteenth century, when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned out of existence and Russia rolled...
Brill, 2014. — 300 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 96). In Belgium’s Dilemma: The Formation of Belgian Defense Policy, 1932-1940 , Jonathan Andrew Epstein presents, for the first time in English, a detailed examination of the formation of Belgian defense policy in the eight years leading up to the crucial World War II Blitzkrieg campaign in Western Europe. Belgium’s decision...
Brill, 2018. — 228 p. — (History of Warfare, 116). In the crusader period Acre was in many ways a remarkable place, but the most striking thing about its history is the number of times it fell to enemies. The present volume Acre and Its Falls is unusual in that it analyses a wide range of aspects of the history of Acre across the crusader period, combining political, military and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 415 p. — (History of Warfare 47). Mercenaries have always had a poor press. Theirs is one of the world's oldest professions, but the very word has profoundly negative connotations of infidelity and ruthlessness. But were they so different from soldiers? Why, in any case, were they so omnipresent in the warfare of the medieval and early modern...
Brill, 2018. — 544 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 122). Artillery in the Era of the Crusades provides a detailed examination of the use of mechanical artillery in the Levant through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Rather than focus on a selection of sensational anecdotes, Michael S. Fulton explores the full scope of the available literary and archaeological evidence,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 262 p. — (History of Warfare, 99).
Allied Fighting Effectiveness in North Africa and Italy, 1942-1945 offers a collection of scholarly papers focusing on heretofore understudied aspects of the Second World War. Encompassing the major campaigns of North Africa, Sicily and Italy from operation TORCH to the end of the war in Europe, this volume...
Brill, 2007. — 275 p. — (History of warfare 44). There are no book-length studies in any language on the military career of King Henry II of England (1154-1189). Historians have generally regarded his warfare as cautious and limited, and the king himself, while noted for his considerable political and legal accomplishments, is not considered one of the great commanders of the...
Brill, 2012. — 416 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 81). The Roman empire extended over three continents, and all its lands came to share a common culture, bequeathing a legacy vigorous even today. A Companion to Roman Imperialism , written by a distinguished body of scholars, explores the extraordinary phenomenon of Rome’s rise to empire to reveal the impact which this had on...
Brill Academic Pub, 2007. — 286 pages. — (History of Warfare. Volume 45). The revolt of Carthage's mercenaries and oppressed Libyan subjects in 241-237 BC nearly ended her power and even existence. This 'truceless' war, unrivaled for its savagery, was fought over most of Punic North Africa and spread to Sardinia.
Brill, 2012. — 514 p. — (History of Warfare 76). The Holy Wars of King Wladislas and Sultan Murad comprises the first detailed treatment of the pivotal conflict between the Ottomans and Christendom from 1438-1444. Beginning with the Council of Florence and renewed Ottoman expansion it covers the election of Wladislas, the rise of John Hunyadi and the factional politics of the...
Brill, 2024. — 409 p. — (History of Warfare 148). This volume places the Eastern, especially the Austro-Russian, fronts of the Great War centre stage, examining the little-known environmental and spatial dimensions in the history of the war. The focus is particularly on the Austrian crown land of Galicia, which was transformed from a neglected periphery into a battleground of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — 471 p. — (History of Warfare 49). Complex, brutal and challenging, the First World War continues to inspire dynamic research and debate. The third volume to emerge from the pioneering work of the International Society for First World War Studies, this collection of new essays reveals just how plural the conflict actually was – its totalizing...
Brill Academic Pub, 2024. — 437 p. — (History of Warfare 143). Medieval Westerners accepted killing for religion and eulogized the outcome of the First Crusade. Their attitude to violence was also ambivalent and fragmented. This book explains how religious violence was depicted, justified, and remembered in the sources of the First Crusade.
Leiden: Brill, 2011. — 363 p. — (History of Warfare 62). Representing the best of cutting-edge scholarship in First World War studies, this anthology demonstrates the possibity of finding common ground in how cultural, social, and military historians study the war. Essays focus on the decisions of commanders, inter-allied negotiations, trench culture, prisoners of war, the...
Brill, 2014. — 336 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 94). World War I and Propaganda offers a new look at a familiar subject. The contributions to this volume demonstrate that the traditional view of propaganda as top-down manipulation is no longer plausible. Drawing from a variety of sources, scholars examine the complex negotiations involved in propaganda within the British...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 459 p. — (History of Warfare 106). During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) suffered one of its greatest defeats in Burma. Both in Malaya and Burma, the bulk of the British Commonwealth forces comprised Indian units. Few people know that by 1944, about 70 percent of the Allied ground personnel in Burma was composed of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. — 241 p. — (History of Warfare 75). The two centuries that chronologically bind the topics in this volume span a period in which Europe was in its global ascendancy. The projection of imperial powers reflected the increasing centralization of states. The ability of state institutions to control and pay for the acquisition, protection and...
Brill, 2011. — 384 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 63). Much of the recent literature on cultural demobilisation or remobilisation after the First World War has focused on men and masculinity. By contrast, this interdisciplinary volume of essays sets out to examine the importance of women’s movements and individual female activists to the shaping of post-war Europe at the...
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. — 477 p. — (History of Warfare 61). This new study argues that the religious attitude of the Roman army was a crucial factor in the Christianization of the Roman world. Specifically, by the end of the third century, there was a significant Christian presence within the army which was ready to act in the interests of the faith. Conditions...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 665 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 92). Swastika over the Acropolis is a new, multi-national account which provides a new and compelling interpretation of the Greek campaign of 1941, and its place in the history of World War II. It overturns many previously accepted English-language assumptions about the fighting in Greece in April 1941 –...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. — 376 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 11). The essays in this volume explore the extent to which the chivalric ethos and military professionalism were incompatible, as well as their relative significance for developments in the art of war, and the rise of the state. Essays explore the armies and societies of late-medieval and early-modern...
Brill, 2021. — 1374 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 133). During the peak of the German expansion in World War II, more than 230 million people from Norway to Greece and from France to various regions inside the former Soviet Union lived under German occupation. This edited collection of primary sources for the first time gives an insight into the experiences of these ordinary...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. — xxxii, 477 p. — (History of Warfare 51). — ISBN 9789004168213. This book takes a fresh look at the Hundred Years War by gathering the latest scholarship on several aspects of the conflict that have not been amply studied before and several that have become "gospel" by numerous scholarly treatments. The collection focuses on the following...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 578 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 25). — ISBN: 9004139699. This volume, the first of a two-volume set, is the work of fourteen European and American scholars and focuses on the wider aspects of the Hundred Years. These essays range far afield from the traditional heartlands of Hundred Years War studies to investigate the influence of the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — xxii+564 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 85). — ISBN: 9789004245648. In this work, the third volume of essays dealing with many understudied aspects of the Hundred Years War, American, British, and European scholars deal with the varied sources that reveal the lives of soldiers in the conflict as well as the development of strategy and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. — 276 p. — (History of Warfare 111). In Battles and Generals: Combat, Culture, and Didacticism in Procopius’ Wars, Whately reads Procopius’ descriptions of combat through the lens of didacticism, arguing that one of Procopius’ intentions was to construct those accounts not only so that they might be entertaining to his audience, but also so that...
Brill Publishers, 2009. — 277 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 55). While recognising the sophistication of the practice of medieval warfare, many people still have problems reconciling the widespread use of surprise and deception with the code of chivalric warfare. Was chivalry really just a meaningless veneer? If true, perhaps more perplexing are the many cases where surprise...
Brill, 2003. — 954 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 12). The suit of armour distinguishes the European Middle Ages & Renaissance from all other periods and cultures. Unlike flexible defences, popular everywhere else in the world, the rigid, articulated, exoskeleton of a "suit of armour" was a more extravagant and less adaptable means of personal protection. It required greater...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 359 p. — (History of Warfare 105). Jussi Jalonen’s On Behalf of the Emperor, On Behalf of the Fatherland approaches the Russian suppression of the Polish Uprising in 1830-1831 from a new transnational perspective. The Russian mobilization involved people from the farthest reaches of the Empire, and one notable group was the Finnish Battalion...
2nd ed. — Leiden—Boston—Köln: Brill, 2002. — 550 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 14). — ISBN: 1385-7827, 978-90-04-12273-4. Throughout Russian history, the army has played a vital role as a catalyst of historical development and social change. While the history of battles, strategy, and the army as an institution have all received a fair amount of attention from historians, the...
Brill, 2005. — 672 p. — (History of Warfare, v. 29). This volume examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, economic, and cultural context. Through the use of research from newly opened Russian and little used Japanese sources the editors assert that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global conflict in the 20th...
Leiden: Brill, 2007. — 583 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 40). Russia fought a very intense and brutal war with Japan in 1904. Japan was an emerging power and was backed by the Great Britain -- another Great Power like Russia. The war was less about Manchuria or Port Arthur and more about Korea. Doesn't it sounds like a deja vu? This is a first-rate tome containing good...
Brill, 2022. — 216 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 139). For about a decade, Amalric, the crusader king of Jerusalem, Nur al-Din, the Turkic ruler of Damascus and Aleppo, and Shawar, the vizier of Fatimid Egypt, would vie for control over one of the wealthiest regions around the Mediterranean. In the end, it was Saladin, the nephew of one of Nur al-Din’s commanders, who would...
Brill, 2022. — 216 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 139). For about a decade, Amalric, the crusader king of Jerusalem, Nur al-Din, the Turkic ruler of Damascus and Aleppo, and Shawar, the vizier of Fatimid Egypt, would vie for control over one of the wealthiest regions around the Mediterranean. In the end, it was Saladin, the nephew of one of Nur al-Din’s commanders, who would...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 432 p. — (History of Warfare 98). The French invaded Algeria in 1830, and found a landscape rich in Roman remains, which they proceeded to re-use to support the constructions such as fortresses, barracks and hospitals needed to fight the natives (who continued to object to their presence), and to house the various colonisation projects with...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 272 p. — (History of Warfare 83). Chinese rulers and statesmen were naturally concerned about the issue of war, when to wage it, when it was justified, and when to avoid it. Although much has been asserted about how these issues were understood in Chinese culture, this work is the first study actually to focus on the debates themselves. These...
Brill, 2013. — xx+724 p. — (History of Warfare 82). — ISBN: 9004224106. "Charlemagne's Early Campaigns" is the first book-length study of Charlemagne at war and its focus on the period 768 - 777 makes clear that the topic, for his forty-six year reign, is immense. The neglect of Charlemagne's campaigns and the diplomacy that undergirded them has truncated our understanding of...
Brill, 2006. — 315 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 39). — ISBN: 9789004152151. This work reexamines the political and military aspects of the Revolution of 1399 that removed Richard II and placed Henry of Lancaster on the English throne. It argues that Henry of Lancaster was not the "all conquering" hero of 1399 but was rather the leader of a coalition of disaffected noblemen...
Brill, 2018. — 388 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 119). During the summer of 1627, corsairs from Algiers and Salé, Morocco, undertook the long voyage to Iceland where they raided the eastern and southern regions of the country, resulting in the deaths of around thirty people, and capturing about 400 further individuals who were sold on the slave markets. Around 10% of the...
Brill, 2012. — 425 p. — (History of Warfare, 78).
The Anglo-Scottish wars of the late Middle Ages have long attracted scholarly attention, but studies focussing on the military aspects of the conflict over the longue durée and from both sides of the border have been lacking. In this collection of essays covering the years between the battles of Dunbar (1296) and Flodden (1513),...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 307 p. — (History of Warfare 95). Simon Kitson's Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945 offers a ’history from below’ analysis of the attitude of the Marseille Police between the Popular Front and the Liberation of France. Kitson highlights the specificities of policing France’s largest port: clientelism, corruption, a floating population...
Brill, 2013. — 336 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 90). The small neutral states of Europe have until now only marginally been included in the historiography of the First World War. This volume deals in depth with The Netherlands, and specifically its war preparations. Being a small country close to the battlefield of the Western Front, it could not be sure its neutrality...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2009. — 357 p. — (History of Warfare 56). The essays in this volume concentrate on imperial conflict. Until recently, most historians of empire have concerned themselves with economic issues. More recently, scholarship has turned to social and cultural aspects of Empire. The role of the military, however, continues to be largely ignored. Historians...
BRILL, 2011. — 584 p. — (History of Warfare 66). — ISBN10 9004204318, ISBN13 9789004204317. The aim of this book is to explore the neglected subject of the final war between France and England at the end of Henry VIIIs and Francis Is reigns. The relationship between these two monarchs has long fascinated historians and serious work has been done in the last generation,...
Brill, 2006. — 356 pages. — ISBN: 9789004151635. — (History of Warfare, Volume 38). This is a pioneering examination of the impact of the crucial central phase of the Italian Wars on the society, politics and culture of Italy, and how the experience of these campaigns and their consequences affected the combatants and the way they saw Italy and the Italians. The essays cover a...
Brill, 2014. — 284 p. — (History of Warfare 102). — ISBN: 9789004282759. Historians writing about the society of medieval and Renaissance Italy have usually focused on towns and cities. Even those writing about rural society often concentrate on the district governed by a particular town. Bankers, merchants, lawyers, are generally seen as constituting the most characteristic...
Brill, 2014. — 293 p. — (History of Warfare 102). Historians writing about the society of medieval and Renaissance Italy have usually focused on towns and cities. Even those writing about rural society often concentrate on the district governed by a particular town. Bankers, merchants, lawyers, are generally seen as constituting the most characteristic Italian social and...
Brill, 2017. — 304 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 114). In Warriors for a Living , Idan Sherer examines the experience of the Spanish infantry during the formative period of the Italian Wars. Decades of clashes between Spain and France transformed Italy into a crucible of military tactics and technology and brought about the emergence of the Spanish infantry tercios as Europe’s...
Brill, 2018. — 512 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 121). Italy in the Second World War: Alternative Perspectives stems from the necessity to write an important page of Second World War history, by focusing on the Italian war experience, which has been overshadowed in international research by the attention given to its senior Axis partner. Drawing extensively on material from...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 456 p. — (History of Warfare, 101). The Finnish Civil War 1918 offers a rich account of the history and memory of the short conflict between socialist Reds and non-socialist Whites in the winter and spring of 1918. It also traces the legacy of the bloody war in Finnish society until today. The volume brings together established scholarship of...
Brill, 2018. — 405 + xvi p. — (History of Warfare 120). — ISBN: 978-90-04-36372-4. In Italy in the Era of the Great War , Vanda Wilcox brings together nineteen Italian and international scholars to analyse the political, military, social and cultural history of Italy in the country’s decade of conflict from 1911 to 1922. Starting with the invasion of Libya in 1911 and...
Brill, 2013. — 220 p. — (History of Warfare 86). Traditionally isolated from mainstream European affairs, in 1914 the Dutch had no major allegiances that bound them to any one side of the conflict. Geographically and economically caught between two of the major belligerents, Great Britain and Germany, the Netherlands was constantly vulnerable to attack from either side. In...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2000. — 273 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 4). This is a study of the appearances of the Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller and Teutonic Knights in the French, German and English epic and romance literature of the Middle Ages. It examines their religious roles, such as caring for the sick, their warrior role of fighting Muslims, and examines the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 299 p. — (History of Warfare 64). This book is intended to serve as an advanced course text for students studying the Cold War. The rearmament of both Germanies in the late 1940s-early 1950s was one of the defining moments of the Cold War. The question of rearming Germany became one of the most difficult questions faced by the Western Allies...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 404 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 79). Great Britain was neutral Switzerland's main supplier of heavy weaponry during the early Cold War. Marco Wyss analyses this armaments relationship against the background of Anglo-Swiss relations between 1945 and 1958, and thereby assesses the role of arms transfers, neutrality and Britain, as well as...
Leiden: Brill, 2012. — 302 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 77). The sword was the most important of weapons, the symbol of the warrior, not to mention the badge of a officer and a gentleman. Much has been written about the artistic and historical significance of the sword, but outside specialised publications, relatively little about its metallurgy, and that often confined to a...
Leiden: Brill, 2012. — 597 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 69). This volume brings together a rich array of original contributions - hitherto unavailable in English - on Finland during World War II and the place of the war in Finnish collective memory. Providing readers with a solid narrative of the war's political and military framework from a Finnish perspective, this volume...
Brill, 2016. — 556 p. — (History of Warfare 110). In "Napoleon and the Operational Art of War", the leading scholars of Napoleonic military history provide the most authoritative analysis of Napoleon's battlefield success and ultimate failure. Napoleon's development and mastery of the operational art of warfare is revealed as each chapter analyzes one Napoleonic war or major...
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