Osprey Men-at-Arms №494. David Nicolle. Forces of the Hanseatic League

Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2013. - 48 p. From the 7th to the 8th centuries AD, a newly arrived nomadic people appeared in the Middle Volga region of what is now Russia from the south. The name of these Bulgar tribes was first recorded in Byzantine Greek sources. They came from the steppes immediately north of, and around, the Sea of Azov, and their material culture was closely...

Illustrations by Giuseppe Rava — Osprey Publishing, 2019. — 48 р. The Great Northern War was a long series of campaigns in which Russia, linked with several other countries in temporary alliances, confronted and eventually replaced Sweden as the predominant power in Northern Europe. While contemporary with the Duke of Marlborough's pivotal campaigns against France, the Great...