Fighting for the Faith

by Nicolle, David

• ISBN13: 9781594160615
• ISBN10: 1594160619
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-28
• Publisher: Westholme Pub Llc

Table of Contents

List of Plates	p. viii
Maps	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
The Laws of War	p. 1
The Rise of the Crusade	p. 6
The Struggle for the Mediterranean	p. 7
The Byzantine Empire	p. 9
Georgia and Armenia	p. 11
The Islamic World	p. 12
The Coming of the Turks	p. 17
Crusader Armies and Tactics	p. 20
Fatimid Armies and Tactics	p. 26
Atabegs, Saladin and the Mamluks	p. 29
The Armies of Iran and Eastern Islam	p. 31
Islamic Tactics, Strategy and Naval Warfare in the Eastern Mediterranean	p. 33
An Arc of Conflict	p. 41
The Struggle for Byzantium	p. 41
Armenia and Georgia	p. 44
The Crusader States of the Aegean	p. 44
The Sultanate of the Saljuqs of Rum	p. 45
From the Steppes to the Baltic	p. 47
Christian Iberian Armies of the Reconquista	p. 51
The Armies of al-Andalus	p. 57
Islamic Armies of North Africa	p. 61
Islamic Sea Power in the Western Mediterranean and the Atlantic	p. 64
The Mongol Onslaught	p. 66
Expansion and Survival	p. 70
The Northern Crusades	p. 70
Islam Looks South	p. 78
Containing the Mongols	p. 82
Timur-i Lenk and the Fragmentation of the Mongol 'World Empire'	p. 85
The Later Mamluk Sultanate	p. 86
The Survival of Mother Russia	p. 88
The Decline of the Golden Horde	p. 91
The Later Crusades	p. 93
The Completion of the Reconquista	p. 93
The Last Armies of al-Andalus	p. 97
The End of Byzantium	p. 100
The Christian Balkan States	p. 105
The Rise of the Ottoman Turks	p. 109
The Late Crusades in Southeastern Europe	p. 114
The Hospitallers	p. 115
The Venetian and Genoese Commercial Empires	p. 118
Hungary	p. 121
The Struggle for the Indies	p. 123
Arms and Armour	p. 133
Arms Trade and Arms Manufacture	p. 138
Western Europe	p. 138
The Byzantine World	p. 141
The Islamic World	p. 142
Central Asia	p. 146
India	p. 147
Africa	p. 147
Horse Harness and Horse Armour	p. 149
Horse Harness	p. 149
Horse Armour	p. 152
Fortification	p. 156
Western and Central Europe	p. 156
The Crusader States	p. 159
The Byzantine Empire	p. 161
Russia	p. 163
The Islamic World	p. 164
Central Asia and the Mongols	p. 171
India	p. 173
Field & Camp Fortifications	p. 175
Siege Warfare	p. 179
The Crusaders	p. 181
Byzantine Siege Warfare	p. 183
The Islamic World	p. 184
The Peoples of the Steppes	p. 189
India	p. 190
Glossary	p. 192
Further Reading	p. 197
Index	p. 219
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