Medieval

Bow & Blade is the engine here — Kelly DeVries and Michael Livingston giving named battles the operational treatment most medieval coverage skips: Grandson, Hattin, the mechanics of infantry beating knights. Byzantium gets its due through Robin Pierson's long chronology, and the fall of Constantinople produced one of the archive's strongest Picks.

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PickAnthony Kaldellis, "1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople" (Oxford UP, 2026) · New Books in Military History

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