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...

Revised and updated for its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine is the mu...

Revised and updated for its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine is the mu...

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First published in 1977, The Samuraihas long since become a standard work of reference. It cont...

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The prevalence of particular fortress types in medieval China, Mongolia, Japan and Korea demanded...