Medieval warfare

Geoffrey Hindley

1971

Medieval Warfare

Tara Steele

2003

Medieval warfare source book

David Nicolle

1995

Brief History of Medieval Warfare

Peter Reid

2008

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

1968

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged

Edward Gibbon

1776

Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century a.d. to its collapse in the west in the fifth century and in the east in the fifteenth century, is widely c...

The Age of Fable

Thomas Bulfinch

1800

Drawing on the works of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and other classical authors, as well as an immense trove of stories about the Norse gods and heroes, The Age of Fable offers lively retellings of the myths...

Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott

1800

The father of the historical novel, Sir Walter Scott invented a literary form that has remained popular for over one hundred and fifty years. Infusing his works with romance, action, and suspense, he ...

Henry IV, Part 1

William Shakespeare

1598

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

Crusades

Benjamin Z. Kedar

2008

The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom

1971

The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill (Goodreads Author) "At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ...

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

1515

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe]; Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise written by Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli as an instruction...

A history of the English-speaking peoples

Winston S. Churchill

1950

Sketches of sixteen of Churchill's favorite historical characters selected from his four-volume A history of the English-speaking Peoples, followed by a profile of Sir Winston drawn from autobiographi...

The Caine mutiny

Herman Wouk

1951

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize this atmospheric novel tells the story in flashback of a mutiny aboard a United States minesweeper during WW2. The murky events of the mutiny emerge during a court-martial...

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

1880

Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as see...

Agincourt: A New History

Anne Curry

2005

The definitive modern account of Agincourt, drawing on English and French sources to reconstruct the battle and debunk centuries of myth.

Azincourt

Bernard Cornwell

2008

Cornwell's masterful novel follows an English archer through the brutal Agincourt campaign — mud, terror, and the long-bow's devastating power.

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Amin Maalouf

1984

A landmark work that recounts the Crusades entirely from the perspective of the Arab chroniclers who lived through them.

Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England

Juliet Barker

2005

The definitive modern account of the Battle of Agincourt, combining close reading of contemporary sources with analysis of the armies, terrain, and tactics that produced Henry V's famous victory.

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

2004

Revisionist biography of Genghis Khan arguing that the Mongol conquests, far from being purely destructive, created the first global trading network and spread technological innovation across Eurasia.

Hammer of the Scots

Columbia Games

2002

Columbia Games' block wargame of the Scottish Wars of Independence, 1296-1314. Features William Wallace and Robert Bruce against English domination. Hidden unit strengths via wooden blocks.

Crusader Rex

Columbia Games

2007

Block wargame of the Crusades in the Holy Land. Christians battle Saladin's forces across the Levant in this elegant Columbia block game.

Crusader

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

1997

Designed by Dean Essig

Samurai

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

1996

Designed by Richard H. Berg, Mark Herman

Storm Over Jerusalem

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

2023

Designed by Scott Blanton

The Crusades: Western Invasions of the Holy Land 1097-1191 A.D.

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

1978

Designed by Richard H. Berg

The Siege of Jerusalem (Third Edition)

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

1989

Designed by Fred Schachter, Bruno Sinigaglio, Steve Weiss

We Happy Few: The Battle of Agincourt

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

2015

Designed by Amabel Holland

Men of Iron

GMT Games

2005

Medieval battle game covering Agincourt, Crécy, and other battles.

Here I Stand: Wars of the Reformation 1517-1555

GMT Games

2006

Grand strategic card-driven game covering the political, military and religious upheaval of the Reformation. Six powers compete across Europe, the Americas, and the Ottoman frontier.

Sekigahara: The Unification of Japan

GMT Games

2011

Block wargame of the 1600 Sekigahara campaign that unified Japan under Tokugawa. Hidden unit identities create fog of war, and card-driven combat rewards planning and misdirection.

1806: Rossbach Avenged

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

1998

Designed by Kevin Zucker

A Most Dangerous Time: Japan in Chaos, 1570-1584

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

2009

Designed by Tetsuya Nakamura, Adam Starkweather

AirLand Battle: Corps Operational Command in Europe

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

1986

Designed by Don Alexander

Armored Knights: Guderian Crosses the Desna 1941

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

2013

Designed by Christopher Fasulo

Assault: Tactical Combat in Europe – 1985

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

1983

Designed by Frank Chadwick

Battles on the Ice: Defeats of the Livonian Order at Peipus and Karuse

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

2017

Designed by Amabel Holland

Beyond the Rhine: The Campaign for Northwest Europe

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

2015

Designed by Dean Essig, John Kisner, Roland LeBlanc

Bitter Woods (Fourth Edition): Expansion Kit

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

2004

Designed by Randy Heller

Blocks in the East: Chrome Expansion

PUBLISHER UNKNOWN

2013

Designed by Emanuele Santandrea