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Vikings at War (Paperback)
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Vikings at War (Paperback)
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List price R674
Loot Price R552
Discovery Miles 5 520
You Save R122 (18%)
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Vikings at War is a sumptuous depiction of how the Vikings waged
war: their weapons technology, offensive and defensive warfare,
military traditions and tactics, their fortifications, ships and
command structure. It also portrays the Viking raids and conquest
campaigns that brought the Vikings to virtually every corner of
Europe and even to America. Between the 9th and 11the century,
Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world.
Viking ravages united the Spanish kingdoms and stopped Charlemagne
and the Franks' advance in Europe. Wherever Viking ships roamed,
enormous suffering followed in their wake, but the encounter
between cultures changed both European and Nordic societies.
Employing unorthodox and unpredictable strategies, which were hard
for more organized forces to respond to, the most crucial element
of the Vikings' success was their basic strategy of evading the
enemy by arriving by sea, then attacking quickly and with great
force before withdrawing quickly. The warrior class dominated in a
militarized society. Honor was everything, and breaking promises
and ruining one’s posthumous reputation was considered worse than
death itself. If a man offended another man’s honor, the only way
out was blood revenge. Vikings at War provides a vivid account of
the Viking art of war, weapons and the history of their conquests
with over 380 colour illustrations including beautiful
reconstruction drawings, maps, cross-section drawings of ships,
line-drawings of fortifications, battle plan reconstructions and
photos of surviving artefacts including weapons and jewellery.
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