Table of Contents

Introduction · The Origins of the Landsknecht · Organisation · Recruitment · Army life · The Articles of War · Officers · Camp life · The Train · Sickness · Religion · Costume ·The Landsknecht in their Own Words · The decline of the Landsknecht · Bibliography · Colour Plate Commentary · Index

About the Author

John Richards has had a long-standing interest in the history of Central European warfare. He has researched the Landsknecht soldier for a number of years. He lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. Gerry Embleton has been a leading historical illustrator since the early 1970s specialising in the medieval period, but with a keen interest in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. An illustrator, and author, of a number of Osprey titles he has lived in Switzerland since the early 1980s.