Samurai Armies of the Late Sengoku Period: Volume I: Anatomy of a Samurai Army in the 16th and 17th CenturiesThe "Anatomy of a samurai army" details its composition, hierarchies, strengths and weaknesses as well as examining how it fought. Other aspects include: the differences between samurai and European warfare; the roles assigned to samurai and ashigaru in different armies; how these armies, some of which were over 100,000 strong, functioned; marching orders and camp facilities of the armies and; where each individual samurai stood in the order of