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Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955 - Volume 10: the First Arab-Israeli War Begins, 15-31 May 1948 by David Nicolle; Gabr Ali Gabr
Category: Military | Series: MiddleEast@War Ser.
This entry in the MiddleEast@War series is illustrated with abundant photographs from previously unused, or very rarely used, private and official sources. Air Power and the Arab World, 1909-1955 Volume 10 continues the story of the men and machines of the first half-century of military aviation in the ...Show more
Armies of the Ottoman Turks 1300-1774 by David Nicolle; Angus McBride (Illustrator)
Category: History | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
The birth of the Ottoman state is shrouded in legend. Whatever the truth of its origins, the Ottomans formed an Empire which almost succeeded in bringing Christian Europe to its knees. During the last decades of the 13th century, the ambitious Osman Bey's tiny mountain state took eight frontier castles ...Show more
Constantinople 1453 by David Nicolle
Category: History | Series: Campaign Ser.
This title details the epic four-month siege of the city of Constantinople, last vestige of the once mighty Roman and Byzantine Empires. Mehmet 'The Conqueror' led an army of 80,000 men with a massive siege train against the city. Defending were a mere 10,000 men under the Emperor Constantine XI. The Tu ...Show more
Crusader Castles in Cyprus, Greece and the Aegean 1191-1571 by David Nicolle
Category: History | Series: Fortress Ser.
Crusader castles and other fortifications in Cyprus, the south-western coast of Turkey and Greece are amongst the best examples of late medieval military architecture to be seen in Europe. These important fortifications, erected by the Hospitallers during the 15th century to face the growing Ottoman Tur ...Show more
Manzikert 1071: The Breaking of Byzantium by David Nicolle
Category: Cap Link Damages SPECIALS | Series: Campaign
On 26 August 1071 a large Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV met the Saljuq Turk forces of Sultan Alp Arslan near the town of Manzikert. The battle ended in a decisive defeat for the Byzantine forces, with the Byzantine emperor captured and much of his fabled Varangian guard killed. This battle is ...Show more
The First Crusade 1096-99 by David Nicolle
Category: Military
In 1095 the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I appealed to the Christian states of western Europe for help against the Turks who had swept across the Empire after the disastrous Byzantine defeat at Manzikert in 1071. This book is about the First Crusade that followed, and saw several armies of
The Portuguese in the Age of Discovery, C.1340-1665 by David Nicolle
Category: Cap Link Damages SPECIALS | Series: Men-at-arms
From humble beginnings, in the course of three centuries the Portuguese built the world's first truly global empire, stretching from modern Brazil to sub-Saharan Africa and from India to the East Indies (Indonesia). Portugal had established its present-day borders by 1300 and the following century saw e ...Show more
The Venetian Empire 1200-1670 by David Nicolle; Christopher Rothero (Illustrator)
Category: History | Series: Men-At-Arms Ser.
The story of Venice is, to some extent, separate from that of the rest of Europe. The same could be said of the city's military history and organisation. Early in the 9th century the Venetians defeated Pepin the Frank's attempts to overawe them, and they remained, at least in theory, subject to Byzantiu ...Show more
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