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Kawanakajima 1553-64 : Samurai power struggle / Stephen Turnbull ; illustrated by Christa Hook.
- Title
- Kawanakajima 1553-64 : Samurai power struggle / Stephen Turnbull ; illustrated by Christa Hook.
- Author
- Turnbull, S. R. (Stephen Richard), 1948-
- Publication
- Oxford : Osprey, 2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Hook, Christa.
- Description
- 96 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.
- Summary
- This manual illustrates the development of samurai armies during the mid-16th century, which witnessed the introduction of firearms. Focusing on the Kawanakajima campaigns of 1553-1564, it relates the struggle between two of mediaeval Japan's greatest warlords, Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin.
- Series Statement
- Campaign / Osprey Publishing ; 130
- Uniform Title
- Campaign (Osprey Publishing) 130.
- Subject
- Kawanakajima War, 1553-1564
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography.
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Origins of the campaigns -- Chronology -- Opposing Commanders -- Opposing Armies -- Opposing Plans -- The Kawanakajima campaigns (1553, 1555, 1557, 1561, 1564) -- Aftermath -- The Battlefield Today -- Bibliography -- Index
- ISBN
- 1841765627
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library