Description

A slim, yet detailed volume on the downfall of the Teutonic Knights, featuring battlescene maps and illustrations throughout.

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. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland invaded the Order's territory with a powerful allied army including all the enemies of the Teutonic Knights – Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, Bohemians, Hungarians, Tartars and Cossacks.

This book recounts how, when the armies clashed on the wooded, rolling hills near the small village of Tannenberg, the Teutonic Knights suffered a disastrous defeat from which their Order never recovered.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chronology
Opposing Commanders
Opposing Armies
Opposing Plans
The Tannenberg
Grunwald Campaign
Aftermath
The Battlefield Today
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published Mar 15 2011
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 96
ISBN 9781846036446
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 60 b/w; 33 col
Series Campaign
Short code CAM 122
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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