Turnbull, Stephen

Corre el año 1615, y los samuráis, los guerreros de elite de Japón, se encuentran en la cima de su poder. Entrenados en todo tipo de técnicas de lucha, desde la esgrima al tiro con arco, pasando por el kárate y el jiu-jitsu, los guerreros samurái son la última línea de defensa del emperador contra (...)

Elephants and Gunpowder presents for the first time a chronological, detailed and richly illustrated account of the development of warfare in mainland Southeast Asia during the Early Modern Period. It begins by describing the region's medieval military inheritance that was dominated by the use of (...)

Oda Nobunaga was Japan's great military genius and the nation's first to envisage a unified Japan. Long vilified by historians as a cruel and ruthless despot, he remains one of the most controversial figures in Japanese history a man whose strategic brilliance and military prowess are his only (...)