Overview :This Osprey Command book looks closely at the early life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Al-Malik al-Nasir Yusuf Ibn N... Read More
Overview :Osprey's study of the Normans during the Middle Ages. Despite the small geographic extent of Normandy its people played a crucial role in th... Read More
Overview :The Janissaries comprised an lite corps in the service of the Ottoman Empire. It was composed of war captives and Christian youths pressed ... Read More
Overview :A Companion to Medieval Arms and Armour covers the entire period from the fifth to the fifteenth century, a thousand years which saw huge ch... Read More
Overview :In Europe the Mamluks of Egypt are remembered as so-called 'Slave Kings' who drove out the Crusaders from the Holy Land; but they were far m... Read More
Overview :Salah al Din Yusif ibn Ayyub, known to his Muslim contemporaries as al Nasi, 'The Victorious', and to an admiring Europe as Saladin, is the ... Read More
Overview :Most historians agree that the Carolingian Age, from the 8th to the 10th Century AD, represented one of the most important turning points in... Read More