Osprey Campaign 122 : Tannenberg 1410 : Disaster for the Teutonic Knights

By 1400 the long running conflict between the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was coming to a head, partly as a result of the Order's meddling in the internal politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland invaded the Order's territory with a powerful allied army including all the enemies of the Teutonic Knights - Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, Bohemians, Hungarians, Tartars and Cossacks. This book recounts how, when the armies clashed on the wooded, rolling hills near the small village of Tannenberg, the Teutonic Knights suffered a disastrous defeat from which their Order never recovered. Text by Stephen Turnbull with illustrations by Richard Hook.

Contents

• Introduction
• Chronology
• Opposing Commanders
• Opposing Armies
• Opposing Plans
• The Tannenberg/Grunwald Campaign
• Aftermath
• The Battlefield Today
• Bibliography
• Index