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The Art of Renaissance Warfare: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly
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December 22, 2006|
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Stephen Turnbull. The Art of Renaissance Warfare: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Thirty Years War.
London: Greenhill Books, 2006. 272 pp. index. map. chron. illus. bibl. $34.95. ISBN: 1-85367-676-4.
People--including myself--familiar with Professor Turnbull's enthralling studies on Japanese military history are likely to be disappointed by The Art of Renaissance Warfare. In the first place, the title is misleading, as the book deals mainly with sixteenth-century martial operations (something the author himself admits in the introduction) and pays ...
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