Picture 1 of 5
The Teutonic Knights: A Military History by William, Urban Paperback Book The
Condition:
“NEVER READ.....BUT HAS A 2 CREASES ON FRONT COVER........SEE PHOTO'S”
Price:
US $16.58
ApproximatelyC $22.81
- Buy It NowThe Teutonic Knights: A Military History by William, Urban Paperback Book The
Shipping:
Located in: Little Falls, Minnesota, United States
Delivery:
Estimated between Thu, Jun 20 and Tue, Jun 25 to 43230
Returns:
Payments:
Shop with confidence
Seller information
- 98.5% positive feedback
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:355104884027
Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “NEVER READ.....BUT HAS A 2 CREASES ON FRONT COVER........SEE PHOTO'S”
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- CHRONICLE
- Era
- 2000s
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9781853676673
- Book Title
- Teutonic Knights : a Military History
- Item Length
- 9.1 in
- Publisher
- Green Hill Book
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Religion, History
- Topic
- General, Institutions & Organizations
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 18.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
About this product
Product Information
This book surveys the gripping history of the knights and relates their rise to power; their struggles against Prussian pagans; the series of wars against Poland and Lithuania; the clash with Alexander Nevsky's Russia; and the gradual stagnation of the Order in the fourteenth century. The book is replete with dramatic episodes - such as the battle on frozen Lake Peipus in 1242, or the disaster of Tannenberg - but focuses primarily on the year-after-year struggle to maintain power, fend off incursions and raiding bands, and to launch crusades against unbelieving foes. And it was the crusade, with knights demonstrating their valour, which chiefly characterised and breathed life into this militant, conquering Holy Order. The narrative charts the rise and fall of the Order, and, in an accessible and engaging style, throws light on a band of knights whose deeds and motives have long been misunderstood.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Green Hill Book
ISBN-10
1853676675
ISBN-13
9781853676673
eBay Product ID (ePID)
51717313
Product Key Features
Book Title
Teutonic Knights : a Military History
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
General, Institutions & Organizations
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Cr4765
Reviews
"This penetrating study, one of the first of its kind in English, surveys the order's rise to power, assumption of military pre-eminence, and eventual fall." - Warfare "Urban brings an epic quality to the lives of the German crusaders, the hard men of Europe, whose military campaigns could rival those of the Templars." - Oxford Times, "This penetrating study, one of the first of its kind in English, surveys the order's rise to power, assumption of military pre-eminence, and eventual fall." Warfare "Urban brings an epic quality to the lives of the German crusaders, the hard men of Europe, whose military campaigns could rival those of the Templars." Oxford Times, Midwest Book Review "The Teutonic Knights: A Military History is the true story of the Christian order of Teutonic Knights of central Europe during the medieval era. Covering roughly the 1200's through the 1500's, including the order's rise and fall, The Teutonic Knights examines both the order's strengths and its inequities, which have been to some degree exaggerated by propagandist, nationalists, secularists, and Protestants. A handful of black-and-white photographic plates illustrate this meticulously documented historical text, embellished with a bibliography and index. The Teutonic Knights brings the era and daily life alive, as surely as it illuminates power struggles between factions, Christian orders, noblemen, and nations, and is a superb contribution to medieval and military history shelves." Journal of Military History , October 2006 "The Teutonic Knights played an exceptionally important role in the history of the crusading movement and in the political, economic, and cultural development of northeastern Europe. Nevertheless, they have received very little attention in Anglophone scholarship, especially when compared to the Templars and Hospitallers, the contemporaries and rivals of the German Order. William Urban, who has published widely on the Baltic crusades over the past four decades, has essayed to redress this imbalance in the literature with a military history of the Teutonic Knights from their foundation in the late twelfth century until the dissolution of their independent state in the sixteenth. Urban's thorough knowledge of the relevant source materials as well as his familiarity with the scholarship that has been published in a wide range of modern languages, make him uniquely qualified to take on this task.", Midwest Book Review "The Teutonic Knights: A Military History is the true story of the Christian order of Teutonic Knights of central Europe during the medieval era. Covering roughly the 1200's through the 1500's, including the order's rise and fall, The Teutonic Knights examines both the order's strengths and its inequities, which have been to some degree exaggerated by propagandist, nationalists, secularists, and Protestants. A handful of black-and-white photographic plates illustrate this meticulously documented historical text, embellished with a bibliography and index. The Teutonic Knights brings the era and daily life alive, as surely as it illuminates power struggles between factions, Christian orders, noblemen, and nations, and is a superb contribution to medieval and military history shelves." "Journal of Military History," October 2006 "The Teutonic Knights played an exceptionally important role in the history of the crusading movement and in the political, economic, and cultural development of northeastern Europe. Nevertheless, they have received very little attention in Anglophone scholarship, especially when compared to the Templars and Hospitallers, the contemporaries and rivals of the German Order. William Urban, who has published widely on the Baltic crusades over the past four decades, has essayed to redress this imbalance in the literature with a military history of the Teutonic Knights from their foundation in the late twelfth century until the dissolution of their independent state in the sixteenth. Urban's thorough knowledge of the relevant source materials as well as his familiarity with the scholarship that has been published in a wide range of modernlanguages, make him uniquely qualified to take on this task.", "This clever and capable author writes a brilliant overview of 500 years of its political and military history . . . The Teutonic Knights is a terrific book . . . Well-written, concise, and fast moving, you'll appreciate Urban’s efforts to highlight crusader action on the fringes of Christendom." – Magweb (USA) "This narrative history of the Teutonic Order . . . fills an important gap in English writing on crusading history. Urban is a distinguished historian of the Christianization of the Baltic in the period between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, and gives us a general history of the order and of the great process conversion in which it played such a major role . . . Enlivened by Urban’s occasional acerbic remarks, as exemplified in his bibliography: “Some well-known works have been omitted because their only worth is for propaganda in disputes now long forgotten or for providing the author's income." – History: The Journal of the Historical Association, "This penetrating study, one of the first of its kind in English, surveys the orderrs"s rise to power, assumption of military pre-eminence, and eventual fall." Warfare "Urban brings an epic quality to the lives of the German crusaders, the hard men of Europe, whose military campaigns could rival those of the Templars." Oxford Times, "This clever and capable author writes a brilliant overview of 500 years of its political and military history . . . The Teutonic Knights is a terrific book . . . Well-written, concise, and fast moving, you'll appreciate Urban's efforts to highlight crusader action on the fringes of Christendom." Magweb (USA) "This narrative history of the Teutonic Order . . . fills an important gap in English writing on crusading history. Urban is a distinguished historian of the Christianization of the Baltic in the period between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, and gives us a general history of the order and of the great process conversion in which it played such a major role . . . Enlivened by Urban's occasional acerbic remarks, as exemplified in his bibliography: "Some well-known works have been omitted because their only worth is for propaganda in disputes now long forgotten or for providing the author's income." History: The Journal of the Historical Association, "This penetrating study, one of the first of its kind in English, surveys the order’s rise to power, assumption of military pre-eminence, and eventual fall." – Warfare "Urban brings an epic quality to the lives of the German crusaders, the hard men of Europe, whose military campaigns could rival those of the Templars." – Oxford Times, Midwest Book Review "The Teutonic Knights: A Military History is the true story of the Christian order of Teutonic Knights of central Europe during the medieval era. Covering roughly the 1200's through the 1500's, including the order's rise and fall, The Teutonic Knights examines both the order's strengths and its inequities, which have been to some degree exaggerated by propagandist, nationalists, secularists, and Protestants. A handful of black-and-white photographic plates illustrate this meticulously documented historical text, embellished with a bibliography and index. The Teutonic Knights brings the era and daily life alive, as surely as it illuminates power struggles between factions, Christian orders, noblemen, and nations, and is a superb contribution to medieval and military history shelves." Journal of Military History, October 2006 "The Teutonic Knights played an exceptionally important role in the history of the crusading movement and in the political, economic, and cultural development of northeastern Europe. Nevertheless, they have received very little attention in Anglophone scholarship, especially when compared to the Templars and Hospitallers, the contemporaries and rivals of the German Order. William Urban, who has published widely on the Baltic crusades over the past four decades, has essayed to redress this imbalance in the literature with a military history of the Teutonic Knights from their foundation in the late twelfth century until the dissolution of their independent state in the sixteenth. Urban's thorough knowledge of the relevant source materials as well as his familiarity with the scholarship that has been published in a wide range of modern languages, make him uniquely qualified to take on this task.", Midwest Book Review "The Teutonic Knights: A Military History is the true story of the Christian order of Teutonic Knights of central Europe during the medieval era. Covering roughly the 1200's through the 1500's, including the order's rise and fall, The Teutonic Knights examines both the order's strengths and its inequities, which have been to some degree exaggerated by propagandist, nationalists, secularists, and Protestants. A handful of black-and-white photographic plates illustrate this meticulously documented historical text, embellished with a bibliography and index. The Teutonic Knights brings the era and daily life alive, as surely as it illuminates power struggles between factions, Christian orders, noblemen, and nations, and is a superb contribution to medieval and military history shelves." Journal of Military History , October 2006 “The Teutonic Knights played an exceptionally important role in the history of the crusading movement and in the political, economic, and cultural development of northeastern Europe. Nevertheless, they have received very little attention in Anglophone scholarship, especially when compared to the Templars and Hospitallers, the contemporaries and rivals of the German Order. William Urban, who has published widely on the Baltic crusades over the past four decades, has essayed to redress this imbalance in the literature with a military history of the Teutonic Knights from their foundation in the late twelfth century until the dissolution of their independent state in the sixteenth. Urban’s thorough knowledge of the relevant source materials as well as his familiarity with the scholarship that has been published in a wide range of modern languages, make him uniquely qualified to take on this task.�, "This clever and capable author writes a brilliant overview of 500 years of its political and military history . . . The Teutonic Knights is a terrific book . . . Well-written, concise, and fast moving, you'll appreciate Urban's efforts to highlight crusader action on the fringes of Christendom." - Magweb (USA) "This narrative history of the Teutonic Order . . . fills an important gap in English writing on crusading history. Urban is a distinguished historian of the Christianization of the Baltic in the period between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, and gives us a general history of the order and of the great process conversion in which it played such a major role . . . Enlivened by Urban's occasional acerbic remarks, as exemplified in his bibliography: "Some well-known works have been omitted because their only worth is for propaganda in disputes now long forgotten or for providing the author's income." - History: The Journal of the Historical Association
Copyright Date
2005
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2005-282999
Dewey Decimal
271/.7914
Dewey Edition
22
Item description from the seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:355104884027
Shipping and handling
Item location:
Little Falls, Minnesota, United States
Ships to:
Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, United States
Excludes:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.), Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Western Samoa, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
| Shipping and handling | To | Service | Delivery*See Delivery notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free shipping | United States | Standard Shipping (USPS Ground Advantage®) | Estimated between Thu, Jun 20 and Tue, Jun 25 to 43230 |
| Handling time |
|---|
| Will usually ship within 1 business day of receiving cleared payment. |
| Taxes |
|---|
| Taxes may be applicable at checkout. Learn moreLearn more about paying tax on eBay purchases |
Sales tax for an item #355104884027
Sales tax for an item #355104884027
Seller collects sales tax for items shipped to the following provinces:
| Province | Sales Tax Rate |
|---|
Return policy
| After receiving the item, contact seller within | Refund will be given as |
|---|---|
| 30 days after the buyer receives it | Money Back |
The buyer is responsible for return shipping costs.
Payment details
Payment methods
Seller feedback (14,561)
u***j (36)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Great service from Seller. Magazine carefully packaged, received in perfect condition. the Seller description was right on. it's definitely like new. I'd definitely purchase from this Seller again. thanks!
o***o (647)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Item exactly as described, shipped lighting fast, at a reasonable cost. I am a repeat buyer from this seller and have always been pleased with my purchases......many thanks for another hassle free buying experience. !!!
y***7 (144)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past 6 months
Verified purchase
Book arrived quickly, was packed well, and is exactly as described/pictured. Great seller I would buy from again.
Product ratings and reviews
More to explore:
- Military History Nonfiction Paperbacks Books,
- William Shakespeare History Nonfiction Paperbacks Books,
- History Foreign Military Nonfiction Paperbacks Books,
- History Foreign Military Nonfiction Paperbacks Books Illustrated,
- History Foreign Military Nonfiction Paperbacks Books in Russian,
- History Nonfiction Paperbacks Books,
- History Nonfiction Military History Fiction & Books,
- History Nonfiction Romanian Paperbacks Books,
- William Shakespeare Paperbacks Books Nonfiction,
- Military History Nonfiction Books & Fiction