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This is an amazing historical work which begins with the mythological creation of japan
Starting with the early history of japan and extending his writings through the edo period events are written not only of the d... Read More
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Turnbull covers the length and breadth of japanese military history up to the end of the samurai era in the 1860s
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- This product had a total of 19 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 1 2021.
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Turnbulls book includes maps battle accounts political history and other information that makes samurai history come alive
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It approaches the topic from the earliest accounts of the samurai right though to the end of the samurai era taking a fairly high level big picture type view
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That said there is still quite a bit of detail of some of the more notable battles but high level campaign type information is not the purpose of this book
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It is more interested in letting the reader understand what happened in japanese history and why it unfolded as it did with out bogging down in micro detail
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Turnbull had penned dozens of books on japans feudal warrior caste and the military and social history of that time
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To my knowledge the samurai a military history was his first commercial publication
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It is a scholarly work that grants the english speaking world an accurate picture of japans history for the eight centuries beginning from approximately the year 1000 a
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He accomplishes this by occasionally inserting an interesting anecdote
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