This book provides a detailed insight into the one of the greatest popular uprisings in European history and explores the organization, tactics, and experience on the battlefield of the peasant bands which faced the Landsknecht armies of the German nobility.

Douglas Miller is a retired academic. He has been researching and modelling renaissance warfare in Germany for over 40 years. He is an honorary member of the Association of German Peasants' War Museums and has authored several books on the military organisation and costume of Landsknechts and peasants during this period.