The Hussite Wars 1419-36: 409 (Men-at-Arms)

The Hussite Wars 1419-36: 409 (Men-at-Arms)
by: Stephen Turnbull(Author),Angus McBride(Illustrator)
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Publication Date: 25 May 2004
Language: English
Print Length: 48 pages
ISBN-10: 1841766658
ISBN-13: 9781841766652
Book Description
In 1415, the judicial murder of the religious reformer Jan Hus sparked a major uprising in Bohemia. His death led within a few years to the ‘Hussite’ revolution against the monarchy, the German aristocracy and the Church establishment. For two decades the largely peasant Hussite armies successfully defied a series of international ‘crusades’; they owed many of their victories to the charismatic general Jan Zizka, and his novel tactical methods based on the use of ‘war wagons’. This remarkable episode in medieval warfare is remembered not only as the Czech national epic, but as an important forerunner to the wars of the Reformation the following century.