Written by
Stephen Turnbull on March 01, 2001
To the popular mind the notion of 'the samurai' never seems to change throughout Japanese history. My book Warrior 29: Ashigaru 1467–1649 (Osprey, 2001) shows how wrong this idea is...
Written by
Stephen Turnbull on January 01, 2001
Greater differences between knights and samurai arise when we turn from the technology of the military revolution to its more personal expression...
Written by
Stephen Turnbull on November 01, 2000
In my book Men-at-Arms 105, The Mongols I made the comment that, because of the vast extent of the Mongol conquests, the Teutonic Knights of Germany and the samurai of Japan had in fact fought a common enemy, even though it was to be three more centuries before the two martial societies became aware of each other's existence...
Written by
Carl Smith on July 01, 2000
For the Union, 1 July 1863 had been a bad day. General Robert E. Lee's Confederates had shoved the Army of the Potomac east and south from McPherson's Ridge and Oak Ridge out of Gettysburg and back to their 'fishhook' position on the high ground formed by the Round Tops, Cemetery Ridge and Hill, and Culp's Hill...
Written by
Stephen Turnbull on May 01, 2000
The siege and battle of Nagashino in 1575 together make up one of the pivotal events in samurai history. The army of the Takeda clan, who had been besieging the tiny but stubbornly defended fortress for nearly ten days, abandoned their siege lines to assault the army sent by Oda Nobunaga to relieve Nagashino...
Written by
Peter Armstrong on January 01, 2000
Osprey's first publication of the new millennium in their Masterclass series is Pete Armstrong's book Ancient and Medieval Modelling. Those of you who have bought a copy hot off the press will recognise the mounted figure of the Earl of Warwick featured here...
Written by
John Prigent on August 01, 1999
The original purpose of the German remote controlled vehicles was for minefield clearance, the intention being to guide a small unarmoured tractor through the minefield while it towed a threepart roller device to explode the mines...