Chris Peers: 9 books
by Chris Peers
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The military might, tactics, and philosophy of Khan is explored in this “fine read” and “useful source for Mongolian . . . and medieval studies in general” (De Re Militari).
As a soldier, general, statesman, and empire-builder, Genghis Khan is a near-mythical figure. His remarkable achievements...
The African Wars
Warriors and Soldiers of the Colonial Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
In The African Wars, Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of tropical and subtropical Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His pioneering and authoritative study describes in vivid detail...
by Chris Peers
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
In the field of military history as in so many others, the Chinese have often been both admired and seen as something utterly mysterious and inscrutable. Chris Peers illuminates the evolution of the military art in China with reference to ten battles, spanning more than 2,000 years, from the Battle...
King Stephen and The Anarchy
Civil War and Military Tactics in Twelfth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Anarchy, the protracted struggle between Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda for the English crown between 1135 and 1154, is often seen as a disastrous breakdown in one of the best-governed kingdoms of medieval Europe. But perhaps the impact of the conflict has been overstated, and its effect...
Rorke's Drift & Isandlwana 1879
A Battlefield Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Rorke's Drift in 1879 is undoubtedly the most famous of Britain's imperial battles. With South Africa becoming a more popular tourist destination, never has there been a better time to visit this iconic battlefield and trace the steps of the red-coated heroes who fought against overwhelming odds,...
On the Seven Seas
Wargames Rules for the Age of Piracy and Adventure c.1500–1730
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
On the Seven Seas is a set of wargames rules covering the high adventure and low morals of the world of the pirate. The rules cover licensed privateers such as da Gama and Drake, ruthless pirates of the Spanish Main, Blackbeard, the Barbary corsairs, the wako of the Far East, not to mention the anti-pirate...
Armies of the Nineteenth Century: Africa
East Africa: Tribal and Imperial Armies in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1800 to 1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2004
Principally covering Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, this volume deals with the native peoples of East Africa and the Arabs and Europeans who variously fought, explored, and raided there in the course of the 19th century. The detailed text provides the dress, arms, organisation, and tactics...
Class Size and Pupil?Teacher Ratios
Where Education and Economics Collide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book provides a “primer” with respect to the debate about class size between economists and educators. In particular it offers an overview of how economists look at school funding problems, and makes a comparison between the work of the Chicago School and others like Eric Hanushek, which has...
Offa and the Mercian Wars
The Rise and Fall of the First Great English Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 years he was the dominant warlord in the territory south of the Humber and the driving force behind the expansion of Mercias power. During that turbulent...