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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN num: 9780850454482
ISBN number: 0850454484
Label: Osprey Publishing
Manufacturer: Osprey Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 48
Printing Date: July 29, 1982
Publishing house: Osprey Publishing
Release Date: July 29, 1982
Sale Popularity Level: 779770
Studio: Osprey Publishing
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During the Middle Ages Islam was Christian Europe's only civilised and most troublesome neighbour, the Middle Ages saw almost continual strife between these two distinct cultures. By the time the Frankish Crusaders reached the Middle East at the end of the 11th century Islam had already incorporated three major races: Arabs, Persians and Turks, each of which contributed different strengths to the armoury of Islam. This title explores the organisation, uniforms and equipment of the armies of Islam from the 7th to 11th centuries, backed by illustrations, museum photographs and eight full page colour plates by popular Osprey artist Angus McBride.
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This MAA book was the very first and best offering in a long series of Middle Eastern Ancient to Medieval MAA topics by this team. Whereas the facts and text are generally readable and scholarly, these books are enlivened by the initially wonderfully evocative reconstructed drawings of Angus McBride. I note that with later books, the drawings tend to lose their vitality, poses are repeated and even the anatomy appears "off".
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This book provides information and excellent McBride plates on the armies of Islam from the beginning of the Umayyad Caliphate to the eve of the Crusades, also detailing western African Moorish and Berber armies, and the Daylami mercenaries of Iran.
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Dr. Nicolle has written another Classic and Mr. McBrides colour plates are superb. For all History buffs, teachers, and students this is a fine book on a highly neglected topic. The author takes you back in time and gives the reader a detailed, colorful, scene. From the combatants tactics, dress, weapons,and geography. To a slice of civilian life are all covered. Had their been some colorful maps I would have given it 5 stars.
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This book was very interesting for my sixth grade readers. I found it was very factual and informative. No opinion discolored any of the facts.
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Another of Dr. Nicolle's excellent overviews of medieval military organizationa and equipment. The soldiers and mercenaries of the Caliphate, the Umayyad, Abbasid and Fatimid dynasties as well as other dynastic and succesor states are illustrated and described. Anyone interested in this period as well as the early Crusades and Muslim Spain will find something of interest. The cross fertilization of equipment, tactics and troop types is especially evident in this work. Dr. Nicolle actually suggests that the kite shield, so often associated with the Normans, could well have come from the Byzantines, via Muslim Sicily or Spain! Cons: insufficient maps. Pros: Angus McBride's beautiful colour plates. Thus, 4 stars.
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