RECOMMENDED: Medieval siege warfare books / 2026



Clifford J. Rogers is a professor of history at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has also been a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Swansea University, an Olin Fellow in Military and Strategic History at Yale, and a Fulbright Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research in London
 

Publication date: 2024

  • ISBN: ‎9781805430391



 

Jim Bradbury, British historian specialising in the military history of the Middle Ages.

"This comprehensive volume provides easily-accessible factual material on all major areas of warfare in the medieval west. The whole geographical area of medieval Europe, including eastern Europe, is covered, including essential elements from outside Europe such as Byzantine warfare, nomadic horde invasions and the Crusades."

Published: 2004

  • ISBNs: ‎9781134598472
  •             9780415221269
  •             9781134598465

 

 

Kelly Robert DeVries is an American medievalist and military historian specializing in the warfare of the Middle Ages. He is often featured as an expert commentator on television documentaries. He is professor of history at Loyola University Maryland and Honorary Historical Consultant at the Royal Armouries, UK.

1. example: Kelly Robert DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith - Medieval Military Technology

2. example: Kelly DeVries - Medieval Military Technology - DeVries' book covers arms, the introduction of armor, gunpowder, the use of fortifications, and naval weaponry, and does so while showing how medieval military technology is connected in broader ways to medieval society.

340 pages, Paperback

First published: 1992

  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0921149743
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0921149743


 

Peter Purton: A History of the Early Medieval Siege, c.450-1200

Peter Purton: A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500 (2010)

Pages: 548

  • ISBN 13: 9781283156073

 

 

 

Geoffrey Hindley, educated at Kingswood School, Bath and University College Oxford,
lecturer and writer.
Geoffrey Hindley: Medieval Sieges & Siegecraft (2009)

  • ISBN: 9781602396333

 

 

Christopher Gravett: Medieval Siege Warfare (Osprey Elite series No.28)

Christopher Gravett is an assistant curator of armour at the Tower Armouries specialising in the arms and armour of the medieval world.
 

  • ISBN 10: 0850459478
  • ISBN 13: 9780850459470

     



The Art of Siege Warfare and Military Architecture from the Classical World to the Middle Ages

Published: 2021
Pages: 288

  • ISBN 978-1-78925-406-8

  • ISBN 10: 178925406X
  • ISBN 13: 9781789254068

 

BONUS MATERIAL:

• Archbishop Albero of Trier: Master of Siege Warfare in Medieval Germany

Vol. 57, No. 2, Apr., 1993

• The Journal of Military History 

 

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