Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights (Campaign, 122) - Softcover

Turnbull, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841765619 ISBN 13: 9781841765617

Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland invaded the Order's territory with a powerful allied army including all the enemies of the Teutonic Knights – Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, Bohemians, Hungarians, Tartars and Cossacks. This book recounts how, when the armies clashed on the wooded, rolling hills near the small village of Tannenberg, the Teutonic Knights suffered a disastrous defeat from which their Order never recovered.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Highly visual guides to history's greatest conflicts, detailing the command strategies, tactics, and experiences of the opposing forces throughout each campaign, and concluding with a guide to the battlefields today.

About the Author:

Stephen Turnbull is recognised as one of the world's foremost military historians of the medieval and early modern periods. He first rose to prominence as a result of his book published in 1977, The Samurai: A Military History. Since then he has achieved an equal fame in writing about European military subjects and has had over 30 books published.

About this edition

• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1841765619
• ISBN 13: 9781841765617
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: Hook Richard