The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years....(展开全部)

The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years....(展开全部)

The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm hold over the Baltic and northern Germany and established a formidable regime which flourished across Central Europe for 300 years....(展开全部)

This major new book surveys the gripping history of the knights and their order and relates their rise to power; their struggles against Prussian pagans; the series of wars against Poland and Lithuania; the clash with Alexander Nevsky's Russia; and the gradual stagnation of the order in the fourteenth century. The book is replete with dramatic episodes--such as the battle on fr...(展开全部)

丹尼斯•肖沃尔特（Dennis Showalter，1942—2019年）：杰出的军事历史学家，主攻德国军事史。在腓特烈大帝的战争、德国统一战争、两次世界大战方面著述颇丰，其代表作还有《坦能堡：帝国的冲突》《巴顿和隆美尔：20世纪的战争人》《德国统一战争》《战争工具：1914—1918年的德国军队》等。 无形大象（1973—）：毕业于哈尔滨工业大学，译有《英法争霸的序幕：西班牙王位继承战争（1701—1714）》《恺撒战记：历史上伟大军事统帅的战例、思想和方法》，著有《西游记——七大圣全传》《萨珊波斯四百年》《十字架与火焰——君士坦丁堡与泰西封的双重奏》《制霸中东——波斯拿破仑的土耳其战争》《江东小霸王孙策传》等文章。

The Delhi Sultanate was the first Islamic state to be established in India. In a broad-ranging, accessible narrative, Peter Jackson traces the history of the Sultanate from its foundation in 1210 to its demise in 1400 at the sack of Delhi by the Central Asian conqueror, Tamerlane. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Sultanate was the principal bastion of Islam i...(展开全部)

The Delhi Sultanate was the first Islamic state to be established in India. In a broad-ranging, accessible narrative, Peter Jackson traces the history of the Sultanate from its foundation in 1210 to its demise in 1400 at the sack of Delhi by the Central Asian conqueror, Tamerlane. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Sultanate was the principal bastion of Islam i...(展开全部)

Now fully updated and totally revised, this highly regarded classic remains the most comprehensive study available of America's military history. Dubbed "the preeminent survey of American military history" (Russell F. Weigley, author of "The American Way of War"), "For the Common Defense" has established itself as an essential fixture in the field. In this major revision, autho...(展开全部)

For most of its existence German-speaking Europe has been splintered into innumerable states - some substantial (such as Austria and Prussia) and some consisting of just a few Alpine meadows. Its military experience has also been extraordinarily varied: threatened and threatening; a mere buffer-zone, and a global threat. Iron and Blood is a startlingly ambitious and absorbing b...(展开全部)