Book Reviews

DRM Books Available for Review

Links here are to the publisher’s website for the book, if available. *book not yet arrived from the publisher.

• David Nicolle, The Fourth Crusade 1202-04: The Betrayal of Byzantium, Campaign 237 (Osprey 2011), 96pp.
• Susan Curran, The English Friend, illustrated by Susan Curran and Mike Dixon (Lasse Press, 2007), 304pp. — Available to the reviewer as PDF or Kindle edition.
• Keith Durham, Strongholds of the Border Reivers: Fortifications of the Anglo-Scottish Border 1296-1603, Fortress 70 (Osprey, 2008), 64pp.
• Adrian Boas, Archaeology of the Military Orders: A Survey of the Urban Centres, Rural Settlements and Castles of the Military Orders in the Latin East (c.1120–1291) (Routledge, 2011), 336pp.
• Ian Hughes, Aetius: Atilla’s Nemesis (Pen & Sword, 2012), 304pp.
• Brian Todd Carey, Joshua B. Allfree, and John Cairns, Road to Manzikert: Byzantine and Islamic Warfare 527-1071 (Penn & Sword, 2012), 224pp.
• Christopher Matthew, A Storm of Spears: Understanding the Greek Hoplite at War (Pen & Sword, 2012), 336pp.
• Jeff Champion, The Tyrants fo Syracuse: War in Ancient Sicily, vol. II, 367-211BC (Pen & Sword, 2012), 272pp.
• Chris Peers, Offa and the Mercian Wars: The Rise and Fall of the First Great English Kingdom (Pen & Sword, 2012), 256pp.
• Jared Kirby (ed.), Italian Rapier Combat: Capo Ferro’ s ‘Gran Sialcro’ (frontline, 2012), 148pp.
• Ignacio and Iván Notario López, The Spanish Tercios 1536-1704, Men-at-Arms 481 (Osprey, 2012), 48pp.
• Catherine Nall, Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England: from Lydgate to Mallory (Boydell and Brewer, 2012), 198pp.
• David S. Bachrach, Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany (Boydell, 2012), 324 pp.
• David S. Bachrach (trans.), Warfare and Politics in Medieval German, ca.1000. On the Variety of Our Times by Alpert of Metz (PIMS, 20012)
• Bernard S. Bachrach, Charlemagne’s Early Campaigns (768-777), History of Warfare 82 (Brill 2013), 768pp.
• Timothy Venning, An Alternative History of Britain: The Anglo-Saxon Age (Pen & Sword, 2013), 224pp.
• Timothy Venning, An Alternative History of Britain: The Hundred Years War (Pen & Sword, 2013), 228pp.
• Aldo Schiavone, Spartacus, trans. Jeremy Carden (Harvard Univ. Press, 2013), 171pp.
• Kathleen Forni, Chaucer’s Afterlife: Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture (McFarland, 2013), 176pp.
• Tim Rayborn, The Violent Pilgrimage: Christians, Muslims, and Holy Conflicts, 850-1150 (McFarland 2013), 232pp.
• Sue Parrill and William B. Robison, The Tudors on Film and Television (McFarland, 2013), 352pp.
• Bob Carruthers, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Illustrated and Annotated (Coda/Pen & Sword, 2011), 372pp.
• James Waterson, Defending Heaven: China’s Mongol Wars 1209-1370 (London: Frontline Books, 2013), 136pp2

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