Product Description: This clear, readable introduction to the popular field of military history is now available in a refreshed and updated second edition. It shows that military history encompasses not just accounts of campaigns and battles but includes a wide range of perspectives on all aspects of past military organization and activity...read more

An illustrated survey of the fighting techniques and weaponry of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, written by five military experts, offers insight into the methods that were utilized in battle and how the development of period equipment changed the face of warfare. 10,000 first printing.

Divided into five sections, the text first examines the individual components of the early modern army, the foot soldier and the mounted soldier, the equipment they wore and used, and how they fought together as a unit. Using colour and black and white artworks, this book shows the ways by which armies gained and lost ascendancy.