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	title:	Condottiere 1300-1500: Infamous Medieval Mercenaries (Warrior): Infamous Medieval Mercenaries (Warrior)
	author:	David Murphy
	format:	Paperback
	publisher:	Osprey Publishing
	released:	July 4, 2007
	isbn:	1846030773
	isbn-13:	9781846030772

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Customer Reviews
Good overview, but feels like something's missing. - Rated This book gives an excellent although brief account of the Italian condottiere of the 14th and 15th centuries. It gives details on their methods of recruitment, background, tactics, arms and equipment. As always Graham Turner's reconstructions are of excellent quality. His depiction of a group of condottiere on the march and his reconstruction of a late 15th century heavily armoured condottiere man-at-arms are particularly evocative. So why only 3 stars? My problem is not in the "quality" (which was excellent) but the "quantity" of the work. I remember when the number of colour plates in a "Warrior" book was 12, somehow this seems to have shrunk down to 8. Also we only have detailed reconstructions of men from the beginning and the end of the period. I felt we also needed another plate depicting a condottiere from the middle of the period, e.g. circa 1390 or 1420. I also noted that there were no black and white photos of items from the Churburg armoury, this seems something of an oversight when they are such an important source of information on Italian knights of this period. Overall though, this is a solid and respectable addition to Osprey's Warrior series. I look forwards eagerly to future books by Murphy and Turner.

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Good overview, but feels like something's missing. - Rated 3/5
This book gives an excellent although brief account of the Italian condottiere of the 14th and 15th centuries. It gives details on their methods of recruitment, background, tactics, arms and equipment. As always Graham Turner's reconstructions are of excellent quality. His depiction of a group of condottiere on the march and his reconstruction of a late 15th century heavily armoured condottiere man-at-arms are particularly evocative.

So why only 3 stars? My problem is not in the "quality" (which was excellent) but the "quantity" of the work. I remember when the number of colour plates in a "Warrior" book was 12, somehow this seems to have shrunk down to 8. Also we only have detailed reconstructions of men from the beginning and the end of the period. I felt we also needed another plate depicting a condottiere from the middle of the period, e.g. circa 1390 or 1420. I also noted that there were no black and white photos of items from the Churburg armoury, this seems something of an oversight when they are such an important source of information on Italian knights of this period.

Overall though, this is a solid and respectable addition to Osprey's Warrior series. I look forwards eagerly to future books by Murphy and Turner.