For most gamers Morocco was first invented when Douglas Porch wrote "The Conquest of Morocco" and set off many a figure gamer. But Cook's book deals with the period starting in the mid-1400s when the final collapse in Granada of muslim rule led to enormous changes in Morocco. The Portuguese were taking feitorias on the coast and pursuing a policy of raiding inland or of establishing spheres of influence. The ruling dynasty Banu Wattas, was then replaced by Banu Sa'ad in a long series of wars that saw the Sa'adians move out of the Atlas and push to the Mediterranean coast where they ran into the recently established Corsair-Ottoman kingdom of Algiers. Cook describes the whole thing in some detail (although some of you might wish for more) and with good maps. He views the Moroccan makhazan as a real army with constituent features in an era where most European armies probably also resembled a moving village. I found the book full of interest as extending the arguments of the "Military Revolution" and pushing the boundaries of study in Braudel's "Mediterranean World of Philip II". More Book Reviews The Wars of Napoleon The Military Revolution In The Sixteenth Century In Search of The Dark Ages The Viking Art of War The Wars Of Frederick the Great Suleyman The Magnificent And His Age The Hundred Years War For Morocco Battle Tactics of Napoleon and his Enemies Russia's Military Way To The West Fisher's Face Stephen And Matilda: The Civil War of 1139-53 The Anarchy of King Stephen's Reign Swiss Regiments a L'Étranger The Italian Reverse At Adowa Back to Perfidious Albion #92 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1996 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com