Mercenaries And Their Masters: Warfare In Renaissance Italy Michael Mallett Pen Sword Military Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

Michael Mallett\ S Classic Study Of Renaissance Warfare In Italy Is As Relevant Today It Was When First Published A Generation Ago His Lucid Account The Age Condottieri - Mercenary Captains Fortune And Soldiers Who Fought Under Them Set Wider Context Italian Society Time Warring City-States Employed Fascinating Picture Emerges Mercenaries Themselves Their Commanders Campaigns But Also Way Which War Organized Practised World Book Concentrates On Fifteenth Century Confused Period Turbulence Transition Standing Armies Were Formed More Modern Types Military Organisation Took Hold Across Europe Looks Back To Middle Ages Fourteenth Forward Wars Sixteenth Foreign Disputed European Balance Power Soil Pioneering Embodies Much Scholarly Research Into This Neglected Often Misunderstood Subject Essential Reading For Any One Keen Understand History Late Medieval Σελίδες: 304 Διαστάσεις: 13 8X13 8Cm