War 16-17th Century

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Warner: Famous Scottish Battles. Cloth

Famous Scottish Battles. Cloth by Philip Warner 160 pages with text, 16 pages with maps

9780521479585 / Parker: The Military Revolution. Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800. 2nd edition. Paperback

Military Revolution.  Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800. 2nd edition. Paperback by Geoffrey Parker 285 pages, 2002. A new edition of Geoffrey Parker's illustrated history of the impact of western warfare 1500-1800.

9780415239899 Gommans: Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire 1500-1700. Paperback

Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire 1500-1700. Paperback by Jos Gommans 288 pages, 6 illustrations. 2002. Mughal Warfare offers a much-needed new survey of the military history of Mughal India during the age of imperial splendour from 1500 to 1700.

Jones: Ralegh's Pirate Colony in America. The lost settlement of Roanoke 1584-1590. Paperback

Ralegh's Pirate Colony in America. The lost settlement of Roanoke 1584-1590. Paperback by Phil Jones 181 pages, with chronology, sources, index, bibliography and 75 illustrations. 2001

9780304359486 Turnbull: Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War 1592-1598. Hardback

Samurai Invasion: Japan's Korean War 1592-1598. Hardback Stephen Turnbull 256 pages, with 100 black-white plates, 50 colour plates. 2002. Turnbull continues his series of popular histories concerning the samurai with a narrative of the imperial expansion that devastated the Korean peninsula and severely damaged the resources of Ming China. Historians pay little attention to it, he says, just lumping it in with Toyotomi Hidyoshi's (1536-98) other bloody wars. Color photographs, reproductions, and maps accompany the text

9781841767406 Turnbull: Samurai: The World of the Warrior. Hardcover

Samurai: The World of the Warrior. Hardcover Author: Stephen Turnbull 2006; 224 pages. This book explores the samurai within the context of an all-encompassing warrior culture that was expressed through art and poetry as much as through violence

9780415146494 / Duffy: Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660

Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660 by Christopher Duffy 290 pages, 100 illustrations. 1996. This classic text is the first integrated survey of the phenomenon of siege warfare during its most creative period. Duffy demonstrates the implications of the fortress for questions of military organization, strategy, geography, law, architectural values, town life and symbolism and imagination

9780415160735 Tallett: War and Society in Early Modern Europe:1495-1715. Paperback

War and Society in Early Modern Europe: 1495-1715. New in Paperback Frank Tallett 336 pages, 6 line figures. 1997. War and Society in Early Modern Europe takes a fresh approach to military history. Rather than looking at tactics and strategy, it aims to set warfare in social and institutional contexts. Focusing on the early-modern period in western Europe, Frank Tallett gives an insight into the armies and shows how warfare had an impact on different social groups, as well as on the economy and on patterns of settlement

9781841768649 Turnbull: Warriors of Medieval Japan. Hardback

Warriors of Medieval Japan. Hardback Stephen Turnbull. Illustrators: Angus McBride, Wayne Reynolds, Howard Gerrard 288 pages, with many black-white and colour illustrations, biblioggraphy, index. 2005. The samurai remain the best known warriors of medieval Japan, but they were by no means the only fighting elite. There were the ashigaru, who were first recruited to swell army numbers but later became a vital part of any samurai force. Trained to protect their monasteries, warrior monks were formidable enemies, mastering a range of martial traditions

9781846032202 Turnbull: Warriors of Medieval Japan. Paperback

Warriors of Medieval Japan. Paperback Stephen Turnbull. Illustrators: Angus McBride, Wayne Reynolds, Howard Gerrard 2007. 288 pages, with many black-white and colour illustrations. Driven by strict codes of honour and bound by deep allegiances of rank, family or religion, the elite warriors of medieval Japan were bold fighters, loyal comrades and deadly enemies.

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