Ebook: Teutonic Knights: A Military History
Author: William Urban
- Genre: History // Military History
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal
- City: Barnsley
- Language: English
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This major new book surveys the gripping history of the knights and their order 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 launch crusades against unbelieving foes. A major new history of this military order that defines the lives, deeds and actions of medieval German crusaderscovers 500 years of European history.
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