Listing 1 - 10 of 186 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
Choose an application
Choose an application
Training for the Trenches is a handbook by Leslie Vickers. It presents the practicalities needed in training for ditch warfare, a battle praxis needed both hundreds of years ago as well as today.
Choose an application
Choose an application
"Roman siege warfare had its own structure and customs, and expectations both by the besieged and by the attacking army. Sieges are typically sorted by the techniques and technologies that attackers used, but the more fruitful approach offered in Roman Siege Warfare examines the way a siege follows or diverges from typical narrative and operational plotlines. Author Josh Levithan emphasizes the human elements--morale and motivation--rather than the engineering, and he recaptures the sense of a siege as an event in progress that offers numerous attitudes, methods, and outcomes. Sieges involved a concentration of violent effort in space and the practical challenge posed by a high wall: unlike field battles they were sharply defined in time, in space, and in operational terms. Chapters examine motivation and behavior during a siege and focus on examples from both the Roman Republic and the Empire: Polybius, Livy, Julius Caesar, Flavius Josephus, and Ammianus Marcellinus. Levithan examines the "gadgetary turn," during which writers began to lavish attention on artillery and wall-damaging techniques, fetishizing technology and obscuring the centrality of the assault and of human behavior. This volume speaks to classicists and historians of all stripes. All passages are translated, and references are accessible to nonspecialists. Military historians will also find much of interest in the volume, in its treatment both of Roman military conduct and of wider military practice"--
Siege warfare --- Siege warfare --- Siege warfare --- Military art and science --- History. --- Psychological aspects. --- History --- History --- Rome --- History, Military.
Choose an application
Siege artillery --- Siege warfare --- History --- History
Choose an application
Choose an application
Aineias legt dar, wie eine kleine Stadt einer Belagerung standhalten kann. Die Schrift ist das älteste militärische Fachbuch, das uns erhalten ist, und erlaubt uns einen Einblick in die Welt des 4. Jh. v. Chr. jenseits großer Mächte wie Athen und Sparta: Im Zentrum steht eine kleine Polis mit ihren Männern und Frauen, Bürgern und Fremden, Freien und Sklaven, Amtsträgern und einfachen Leuten, die sich alle zusammen in einer Krise bewähren müssen. Aineias shows how a small city could withstand a siege in antiquity. The book is the oldest military textbook preserved from ancient Greece and provides a unique insight into the world of the fourth century BC beyond the great powers like Athens and Sparta: The focus is on a small polis with its men and women, citizens and foreigners, free men and slaves, officials and ordinary people, all of whom must stand together in a crisis.
Choose an application
Fortification --- Fortification --- Siege warfare --- Siege warfare --- History --- History --- Sächsische Landesbibliothek--Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
Choose an application
Artillery --- Military art and science --- Siege warfare --- Helm, Franz,
Listing 1 - 10 of 186 | << page >> |
Sort by
|