Stephen Turnbull (Author of Samurai)
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Stephen Turnbull


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February 06, 1948

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Stephen Richard Turnbull is British a historian specializing in eastern military history, especially the samurai of Japan. His books are mainly on Japanese and Mongolian subjects. He attended Cambridge University where he gained his first degree. He currently holds an MA in Theology, MA in Military History and a PhD from the University of Leeds where he is currently a lecturer in Far Eastern Religions. He has also written a number of books on other medieval topics.

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Samurai: The World of the W...

3.88 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions
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War in Japan 1467–1615

3.79 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions
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Warriors of Medieval Japan

3.98 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
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Samurai: The Japanese Warri...

3.76 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions
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The Samurai and the Sacred

3.95 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2006 — 11 editions
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The Samurai

4.07 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions
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Genghis Kahn & the Mongol C...

3.70 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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The Samurai

3.93 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1977 — 15 editions
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Samurai Women 1184–1877

3.80 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2006
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SAMURAI SOURCEBOOK

4.05 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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“«Like a fossil tree
From which we gather no flowers
Sad has been my life
Fated no fruit to produce.»

Death poem composed by Minamoto Yorimasa immediately before his act of seppuku in the Byodo-in temple of Uji.”
Stephen Turnbull, Samurai: The Japanese Warrior's [Unofficial] Manual

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