The Crusades: Biographies



J. Sydney Jones, The Crusades: Biographies
Gale Publishing | ISBN 0787691771 | 2004 | PDF | 14.7 MB | 238 pages

The Biographies include profiles on twenty-five men and women who attained some form of notoriety during this period in history. They include King Richard the Lionheart of England, the Muslim warrior Saladin, St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Urban II, Pope Innocent III, Peter the Hermit, Frederick I of Germany, Stephen of Cloyes and others.. The text also includes more than forty-five images.

The Crusades: Almanac




Michael J. O’Neal, The Crusades: Almanac
Gale Publishing | ISBN 0787691763 | 2004 | PDF | 24.3 MB(12.5+11.8) | 224 pages

The Crusades covers everything from the First Crusade (1095-99) through the Ninth Crusade (1271-72).The Crusades: Almanac discusses various topics, including the conquering of Jerusalem by the caliph Umar, pilgrimages to the Holy Land, the traditions of chivalry, Shiites and Sunnis, territorial expansion and colonization as motivations for the crusades, Knights Hospitalers and Knights Templars and more.

The Crusades: Prymary Sources



J. Sydney Jones, The Crusades: Prymary Sources
Gale Publishing | ISBN 078769178X | 2004 | PDF | 15.2 MB | 194 pages

The “Crusades” were a series of military campaigns launched by the Christian countries of western Europe in the late eleventh century. During these battles tens of thousands of people went to war in the Middle East. Their goal was to recapture the Holy Land, or Palestine, from the Muslims and restore it to Christian control. The focus of the Crusaders was the holy city of Jerusalem, now part of the Jewish nation of Israel on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and still a holy site to three religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. But the impact of the Crusades was felt throughout that region of the world and in Europe.

Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia



Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia
Tauris Parke Paperbacks; General edition (November 8, 2003) | 1860648959 | 6.7MB@RS | PDF | 384 pages

Prolonged Wars: A Post Nuclear Challenge



Prolonged Wars: A Post Nuclear Challenge
University Press of the Pacific | ISBN 0898758343 | 2001 Edition | PDF | 480 Pages | 1 MB

The authors of the articles in this anthology examine the underlying impact of the cold war on protracted conflict in Africa and Asia. These area specialists examine the factors that produced prolonged conflict and what each side in them considered the cause(s) of these struggles. They analyze the reasons for "success" and "failure" in each of these regional conflicts.

Osprey - Elite 125 - Samurai Commanders 1 940-1576



Osprey - Elite 125 - Samurai Commanders (1) 940-1576
Stephen Turnbull | 2005 | Osprey Publishing | Elite 125 | ISBN: 1841767433 | PDF | 68 p. | English | 18 MB

Osprey - Elite 128 - Samurai Commanders 2 1577-1638



Osprey - Elite 128 - Samurai Commanders (2) 1577-1638
Stephen Turnbull | 2006 | Osprey Publishing | Elite 125 | ISBN: 1841767441 | PDF | 68 p. | English | 16 MB

Osprey - Elite136 - World War II Airbone Warfire_Tactics



Osprey - Elite136 - World War II Airbone Warfire_Tactics
Gordon L Rottman | 2006 | Osprey Publishing | Elite 126 | ISBN: 184176953 | PDF | 68 p. | English | 20 MB

Science Goes to War: The Search for the Ultimate Weapon--from Greek Fire to Star Wars



Science Goes to War: The Search for the Ultimate Weapon - from Greek Fire to Star Wars
Wiley; 1st edition (March 29, 2002) | ISBN: 0471410071 | 1MB@RS | PDF | 288 pages

"It was a thing blameworthy, shameful and barbarous, worthy of severe punishment before God and Man, to wish to bring to perfection an art damageable to one's neighbor and destructive to the human race."
This anguished statement from the fifteenth-century Italian mathematician known as Tartaglia, who created the science of ballistics, might have come from any one of thousands of brilliant scientists who, throughout history, have applied their genius to the art of war. Every advance in weaponry from the bronze sword to the stealth bomber has been the product of science, and it is likely that without the pressure of war, science as we know it would not exist.
Science Goes to War examines the moral dilemmas, knotty technological problems, and pragmatic necessities that have punctuated the inseparable histories of science and warfare. This remarkably comprehensive volume recounts the 4,000-year quest for the ultimate weapon and reveals how this eternal arms race has both exploited and contributed to "pure" science. Highlights among the many compelling stories in Science Goes to War include:
* Archimedes and the defense of Syracuse
* Galileo and the first military R&D laboratory
* Emperor Meiji and the technological transformation of Japan
* The Manhattan Project

The Black Death (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World)



Joseph P. Byrne, The Black Death (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Medieval World)
Greenwood Press | ISBN 0313324921 | 2004 | PDF | 1 MB | 263 pages

The Black Death, by Joseph Byrne, isolates the event of the epidemic of bubonic plague in 1347–52 as having had a signal impact on medieval Europe. It was, however, only the first of many related such episodes involving variations of pneumonic and septicemic plague that recurred over 350 years. Taking a twofold approach to the Black Death, Byrne investigates both the modern research on bubonic plague, its origins and spread, and also medieval documentation and illustration in diaries, artistic works, and scientific and religious accounts. The demographic, economic, and political effects of the Black Death are traced in one chapter, the social and psychological patterns of life in another, and cultural expressions in art and ritual in a third. Finally, Byrne investigates why bubonic plague disappeared and why we continue to be fascinated by it. Documents included provide a variety of medieval accounts—Byzantine, Arabic, French, German, English, and Italian—several of which are translated for the first time.