Vintage Books, 2001. — 912 p. — ISBN: 978-0-375406-42-5. In this engrossing narrative of the great military conflagration of the mid-eighteenth century, Fred Anderson transports us into the maelstrom of international rivalries. With the Seven Years' War, Great Britain decisively eliminated French power north of the Caribbean — and in the process destroyed an American diplomatic...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. — 505 p. Louisbourg, France's impressive fortress on Cape Breton Island's foggy Atlantic coast, dominated access to the St. Lawrence and colonial New France for forty years in the mid-eighteenth century. In 1755, Great Britain and France stumbled into the French and Indian War, part of what (to Europe) became the Seven Years' War — only for...
Walker Books, 2005. — 368 p. On May 28, 1754, a group of militia and Indians led by twenty-two-year-old major George Washington surprised a camp of sleeping French soldiers near present-day Pittsburgh. Washington could not have known it, but the brief and deadly exchange of fire that ensued lit the match that, in Horace Walpole's memorable phrase, would "set the world on fire."...
Bellona, 2003. — 271 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). In the Battle of Prague or Battle of Štěrboholy, fought on 6 May 1757 during the Third Silesian War (Seven Years' War), Frederick the Great's 67,000 Prussians forced 60,000 Austrians to retreat, but having lost 14,300 men, decided he was not strong enough to attack Prague. Intrygujący opis pierwszej z wielkich batalii wojny...
Osprey Publishing, 2001. — 96 p. — (Essential Histories). The closest thing to total war before World War One, the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) was fought in North America, Europe, the Caribbean and India with major consequences for all parties involved. This fascinating book is the first to truly review the grand strategies of the combatants and examine the differing styles of...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 265 p. Our Bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victory', wrote Horace Walpole after receiving news of Wolfe's victory at Quebec in October 1759. Traditional accounts of the Seven Years' War have emphasized the contribution of the Elder Pitt to the success of Britain in Europe, the Caribbean, Africa, India and the Far East. The Bells of...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 480 p. On July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American enemy forces in Ohio Country. Known as the Battle of the Monongahela, the loss altered the trajectory of the Seven Years' War in America, escalating the fighting and shifting the balance of...
Dom Wydawniczy Bellona, 1997. — 144 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The decisive Battle of Kunersdorf occurred on 12 August 1759 near Kunersdorf (Kunowice), immediately east of Frankfurt an der Oder (the second largest city in Prussia). Part of the Third Silesian War and the wider Seven Years' War, the battle involved over 100,000 men. An Allied army commanded by Pyotr Saltykov and...
Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2015. — 1008 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4766-1300-0 The research and writing of this book has occupied many years — much longer than the duration of the war. In a time just removed from the world wars of the twentieth century, wars in which Germany played a significant rôle, we take pause and reflect. That nation demonstrated, even as she...
Jefferson: McFarland & Co, 2014. — 604 p. The Seven Years' War (1756-1763), known as the French and Indian War in North America, was perhaps the first war that could properly be called a world war. It involved the major European countries, North and Central America, the coast of West Africa, the Philippines, and India. A major player in the war was Frederick the Great...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 280 p. Taking French participation in the Seven Years War (1756-1763) as a case study, this book examines the effects of war on the economy and on government finance, finding that the economic toll has usually been exaggerated and the financial toll seriously underestimated. Originally published in 1987.
Quebec, Presses de Universite Laval, 2002. — 330 p. Québec, capitale fortifiée de la Nouvelle-France, tombe aux mains des forces britanniques en 1759 : cette défaite marque le revers final de l'empire français en Amérique du Nord. La bataille des plaines d'Abraham accorde la victoire définitive au major général Wolfe et détermine l'avenir du Canada, mais elle trace aussi la...
Routledge, 2007. — 512 p. In this pioneering new work, based on a thorough re-reading of primary sources and new research in the Austrian State Archives, Franz Szabo presents a fascinating reassessment of the continental war. Professor Szabo challenges the well-established myth that the Seven Years War was won through the military skill and tenacity of the King of Prussia,...
Bellona, 2000. — 203 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, also known as the Battle of Quebec, was a pivotal battle in the Seven Years' War (referred to as the French and Indian War to describe the North American theatre). The battle, which began on 13 September 1759, was fought on a plateau by the British Army and Royal Navy against the French Army,...
Wiltshire: Anthony Rowe Ltd., 1997. — 59 p. — (Society for Army Historical Research Special Publication No. 14). Letters and journals by officers and men who served in Germany during the Seven Years War are few. The writer of the journal introduced here arrived with his regiment at the end of July 1758 and commanded it at Minden. The value of Oughton's journal is in its...
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