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9781448818723 | 1 edition (Rosen Pub Group, January 15, 2011), cover price $30.60
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9781846039607 | Osprey Pub Co, July 20, 2010, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Arguably the greatest military commander in the history of the samurai, Toyotomi Hideyoshi rose from the ranks of the peasantry to rule over all Japan.
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9781846034565 | Osprey Pub Co, January 26, 2010, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The two attempts by Khubilai Khan, the Mongol Emperor of China, to invade Japan in 1274 and 1281 represent unique events in the history of both countries.
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9781846034428 | Osprey Pub Co, November 17, 2009, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A brilliant but little-known operation, the Shimazu clan raid on the independent kingdom of Rykkyu (modern Okinawa) in 1609 is one of the most extraordinary episodes in samurai history and the culmination of centuries of rivalry between the two powers.
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9781846033810 | Osprey Pub Co, May 19, 2009, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: It has been said in China that a city without a wall would be as inconceivable as a house without a roof.
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9784805309568 | Tuttle Pub, April 15, 2008, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: The word "samurai" evokes intense images of indomitable warriors, expert swordsmen capable of taking on overwhelming odds-and emerging victorious.
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9781841767406 | Osprey Pub Co, October 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The world of the samurai - the legendary elite warrior cult of old Japan - has for too long been associated solely with military history and has remained a mystery to the general reader.
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9781841769516 | Osprey Pub Co, June 27, 2006, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The world of the samurai - the legendary elite warrior cult of old Japan - has for too long been associated solely with military history and has remained a mystery to the general reader.
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Product Description: Provides an insightful, yet concise, overview of ten major campaigns or battles of the period Praeger is pleased to announce a partnership with Osprey Publishing to make these unique books available to our customers. Now available in high-quality hardback volumes, this series provides insightful, yet concise, overviews of major battles...read more
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9780275988371 | Praeger Pub Text, November 1, 2005, cover price $315.00 | About this edition: Provides an insightful, yet concise, overview of ten major campaigns or battles of the period Praeger is pleased to announce a partnership with Osprey Publishing to make these unique books available to our customers.
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9780275988609 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9781841765617 | Osprey Pub Co, May 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: 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.
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9780275988685 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Kawanakajima is unique in history.
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9780275988678 | Ill edition (Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 2005), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: When Portuguese traders took advantage of the constant violence in Japan to sell the Japanese their first firearms, one of the quickest to take advantage of this new technology was the powerful daimyo Oda Nobunaga.
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9781855326194 | Osprey Pub Co, April 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Osprey's examination of the campaign at Nagashino in 1575.
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Product Description: Provides an insightful, yet concise, overview of three major battles of Samurai-era Japan Praeger is pleased to announce a partnership with Osprey Publishing to make these unique books available to our customers. Now available in high-quality hardback volumes, this series provides insightful, yet concise, overviews of major battles...read more
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9780275988661 | Praeger Pub Text, August 30, 2005, cover price $94.50 | About this edition: Provides an insightful, yet concise, overview of three major battles of Samurai-era Japan Praeger is pleased to announce a partnership with Osprey Publishing to make these unique books available to our customers.
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9781841768267 | Osprey Pub Co, August 30, 2005, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: From the 10th century onwards the great Japanese monastic foundations of Nara and Mount Hiei maintained large armies of warlike monks.
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9781841767598 | Osprey Pub Co, November 15, 2004, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The walls of Constantinople are the greatest surviving example of European medieval military architecture in the world.
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9781841767123 | Osprey Pub Co, June 1, 2004, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The original forced conversion of pagan Livonia, what is now the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia, was carried out by a military order known as the Brethren of the Sword.
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9781856487030 | Promotional Reprint Co Ltd, May 28, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Tells the story of the courageous fighting men of early Japan, showing how they developed from the primitive fighters of the seventh century into an invincible military caste with a fearsome reputation.
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9780415969130 | Routledge, January 1, 2004, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: The Ottoman Empire and its conflicts provide one of the longest continuous narratives in military history.
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9781841765693 | Osprey Pub Co, November 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The Ottoman Empire and its conflicts provide one of the longest continuous narratives in military history.
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9780415968621 | Routledge, November 1, 2003, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Looks at the Mongol conquests describing causes, campaigns, tactics, soldiers, and consequences.
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9781841765570 | Osprey Pub Co, October 1, 2003, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Throughout their stormy history the Teutonic Knights of Germany have always been the most controversial brotherhood ever to call themselves 'Knights of Christ'.
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9781841765235 | Osprey Pub Co, July 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The history of the Mongol conquests is a catalogue of superlatives.
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Book Description: Few countries has a warrior tradition as long and as exciting as that of Japan -- and it is embodied in one powerful and romantic figure: the loyal, self-sacrificing samurai. He is both a courageous swordsman and an aesthete. He is the commander on the battlefield, the keeper of the peace, the aristocratic administrator, and the avenger of his master...read more
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9781577172857 | Todtri Book Pub, January 3, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Few countries has a warrior tradition as long and as exciting as that of Japan -- and it is embodied in one powerful and romantic figure: the loyal, self-sacrificing samurai.
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9780304359714 | Cassell, May 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A best-selling expert on medieval warfare has produced a hugely successful book--over 100,000 copies sold--that returns by popular demand as the premier reference on knighthood.
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9781856485937 | Promotional Reprint Co Ltd, November 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Few countries have a warrior tradition as ancient and exciting as that of Japan--and it is embodied by one powerful and romantic figure: the loyal, self-sacrificing samurai.
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9781841762500 | Osprey Pub Co, January 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Nagashino changed the face of Japanese warfare as common soldiers humbled the noble Samurai and courage and the code of "bushido" were no longer enough in the face of effective gunpowder weapons.
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9781854093714, titled "Samurai Sourcebook" | Arms & Armour, March 1, 1999, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Brave, invincible warriors, fighting sword in hand against overwhelming odds.
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9781854095237 | Cassell, May 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Brave, invincible warriors, fighting sword in hand against overwhelming odds.
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