A PORTRAIT OF ESPIONAGE, COVERT OPERATIONS, ASSASSINATION SQUADS, AND
THE DEEP PENETRATION OF SEEMINGLY INVULNERABLE FORTRESSES OR SECURITY
SYSTEMS MATCHING ANYTHING TO BE FOUND IN THE WAR STORIES OF THE MODERN
ERA. MATTHEW BENNETT, SANDHURST.
Alongside the familiar pitched battles, regular sieges, and
large-scale manoeuvres, medieval and early modern wars also involved
assassination, abduction, treason and sabotage. These undercover
operations were aimed chiefly against key individuals, mostly royalty
or the leaders of the opposing army, and against key fortified places,
including bridges, mills and dams. However, because of their
clandestine nature, these deeds of "derring-do" have not been studied
in any detail, a major gap which this book fills. It surveys a wide
variety of special operations, from the eleventh to the sixteenth
century. It then analyzes in greater depth six select and exciting
operations: the betrayal of Antioch in 1098; the attempt to rescue
King Baldwin II from the dungeon of Khartpert in 1123; the
assassination of Conrad of Montferrat in 1192; the attempt to storm
Calais in 1350; the "dirty war" waged by the rulers of France and
Burgundy in the 1460s and 1470s; and the demolition of the flour mill
of Auriol in 1536.
Professor YUVAL NOAH HARARI teaches at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, and is the author of the international bestseller _Sapiens:
A Brief History of Humankind_.
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9781846155949
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2022
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Boydell Press
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Engelsk
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