Teutonic Order... In Russia, it is primarily associated with German dog knights, German expansion to the east, the Battle of the Ice and the Nazis, who proclaimed themselves the heirs of the order. William Urban's unique study sets the order's nearly three-hundred-year history against the backdrop of continental history, from its founding to the decline of the War in the Holy Land and the Crusades in Livonia, territorial clashes with Poland and the baptism of Lithuania, the Battle of Tannenberg and the end of the order in the Baltics. These are the milestones in the history of the order, the chronicle of its victories and defeats...