Author: Turnbull, Stephen
Publisher: Osprey Pub Co
Year: 2003
ISBN: 9781841765617
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: As New
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Description:
New book, 96 pages, CAM122. 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. Contents: Introduction, Chronology, Opposing Commanders, Opposing Armies, Opposing Plans, The Tannenberg/Grunwald Campaign, Aftermath, The Battlefield Today, Bibliography, Index.