I would recommend Jonathan Sumption's The Hundred Years War vol 1&2. It is very detailed and does a good job on showing how political and economic issues affected military events. Another good book is John France's Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades 1000-1300. France also wrote Victory in the East: A Military history of the First Crusade. For the late medieval, early Renaissance one must read Bert S. Hall's Weapons & Warfare in Renaissance Europe. Highly technological in nature but he takes on some myths about weapons during this period. On the other end of the time line would be Robert Drews' two books on chariots and chariot warfare, The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East and The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. For the other side of the world there is Chris Peers' book Warlords of China 700BC to AD1662 And for those who like primary source material there is "The Records of the Grand Historian" this is a three volume collection of the writings of Sima Qian, China's first true historian. It is a history of China from it's early written beginnings to around 100 BC when Sima Qian died. Finally back to the Middle Ages there is Kelly DeVries' book "Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century". He presents a well supported series of battles, many not well known. These battles could be used for scenarios for wargaming. Back to Saga #75 Table of Contents Back to Saga List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Terry Gore 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