This volume of the popular science publication "All Wars of the World," written by the famous military historian A. V. Shishov, is dedicated to the Middle Ages. This era is incredibly rich in military-political events that shocked all countries and continents. The crusades of Western European knights against the Muslims of the Middle East, the terrifying invasions of Mongol hordes throughout Eurasia from Burma to Poland, the confrontation of the peoples of Europe with the pressure of the Ottoman Turks, widespread - from Spain to Japan - feudal strife, The hundred-year war between England and France, the bloody feuds of religious communities, popular uprisings against the oppressors, colonial expeditions of the Spaniards and Portuguese to the countries of the New World - these are the main episodes of this worldwide drama... The book ends with the events of the Time of Troubles in the Russian state - an incredible civil war, the course of which was seriously complicated by foreign intervention.