In 1614-15 Osaka Castle was Japan's greatest fortification, measuring approximately 2 miles in le...

Stephen Turnbull, a renowned expert on the history of Japan, examines the samurai invasion of Kor...

The landscape of 16th- and 17th-century Japan was dominated by the graceful and imposing castles ...

From the 10th century onwards the great Japanese monastic foundations of Nara and Mount Hiei main...

With photographs and full-colour artwork, including detailed cutaways, the author gives an accoun...

The original forced conversion of pagan Livonia, what is now the Baltic states of Latvia and Esto...

The Sengoku The Jidai, ''Age of Warring States'', is the age of the samurai the military aristocr...

A brilliant but little-known operation, the Shimazu clan raid on the independent kingdom of Ryuky...

In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firear...

The Japanese invasion and occupation of Korea, which lasted from 1592 to 1598, was the only occas...

Throughout their stormy history the Teutonic Knights of Germany have always been the most controv...

The Ottoman Empire and its conflicts provide one of the longest continuous narratives in military...