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

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 best-loved politician and social reformer of nineteenth century England, Lord Shaftesbury’s d...

At a time when Anglicans and Evangelicals seem to be increasingly polarized rather than part of t...

By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania ...

Feared throughout the Far East, Japanese pirates were likened to ''black demons'' and ''flood dra...

The samurai were the military elite of medieval and early modern Japan, and the men who led them ...

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

From his seat in Xanadu, the great Mongol Emperor of China, Kubla Khan, had long plotted an invas...

By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania ...

This second volume about Japan''s samurai commanders covers the generals of the later years of th...