"This paperback was originally published in hardback under ISBN#978004132443 as volume 34 in the series History of Warfare."--Title page verso.

Amphibious warfare, 1000-1700: concepts and contexts / D.J.B. Trim & Mark Charles Fissel -- Amphibious operations from the Norman Conquest to the crusades of Saint Louis, c. 1050-c. 1250 / Matthew Bennett -- Amphibious warfare in the Baltic: the Hansa, Holland and the Habsburgs (fourteenth-sixteenth centuries) / Louis Sicking -- Portuguese amphibious warfare in the east in the sixteenth century (c. 1500-1520) / Malyn Newitt -- Amphibious warfare in the Baltic, 1550-1700 / Jan Glete -- The Siege of Malta (1565) and the Habsburg-Ottoman struggle for domination of the Mediterranean / John F. Guilmartin, Jr. -- Amphibious operations and the Elizabethan assault on the Spanish Atlantic economy 1585-1598 / R.B. Wernham -- English amphibious warfare, 1587-1656: galleons, galleys, longboats, and cots / Mark Charles Fissel -- The King's two arms: French amphibious warfare in the Mediterranean under Louis XIV, 1664 to 1697 / Guy Rowlands -- The blue-water dimension of King William's War: amphibious operations and allied strategy during the Nine Years' War, 1688-1697 / John M. Stapleton, Jr. -- Medieval and early-modern inshore, estuarine, riverine and lacustrine warfare / D.J.B. Trim -- Conclusions / D.J.B. Trim & Mark Charles Fissel.