Tannenberg 1410: Disaster for the Teutonic Knights (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781841765617)

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.

Author: Stephen Turnbull
ISBN-10: 1841765619
ISBN-13: 9781841765617
Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2003
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.74h x 7.18w x 0.34d

About the Author
Stephen Turnbull is recognised as one of the world's foremost military historians of the medieval and early modern periods. He first rose to prominence as a result of his book published in 1977, The Samurai: A Military History. Since then he has achieved an equal fame in writing about European military subjects and has had over 30 books published.