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Wars of the Roses

Strategies of War in Westeros

by Ken Mondschein (k e n [at] k e n m o n d s c h e i n [dot] c o m) George R.R. Martin’s Westeros seems to have an unreasonably large number of battles compared to the real Middle Ages. In A Clash of Kings there are …

Bell, et al., The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century (Boydell & Brewer, 2011) — Ditcham

Adrian R Bell, Anne Curry, Adam Chapman, Andy King, and David Simpkin (eds)  The Soldier Experience in the Fourteenth Century  Warfare in History 36 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2011).  232pp.   $90/£50.  ISBN 9781843836742. A common criticism of multi-authored publications of conference proceedings is that these lack focus and coherence.  This …