Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952. — 619 p. One of the more important works on the Navel History of the Levant. Covers the Cretan War, The Morean War, The First Russian Fleet, The Second Russian Black Sea Fleet, The Russians in the Mediterranean, The Fight for the Black Sea, The Earlier Napoleonic Wars, Tunis and Tripoli, the Later Napoleonic Wars, The War of Greek...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2009. — 261 p. An essential guide for military buffs and a comprehensive re - source for a transitional period in military history, Fighting Techniques of the Colonial Age shows in detail the methods by which European armies gained and lost ascendancy on the battlefields of the colonial era. From the tactics required to win battles in a period when op -...
Pickering and Chatto, 2010. — 293 p. Major General Orde Wingate (1903-1944) was the most controversial British military commander of the Second World War, due to his idiosyncratic leadership style, which led some to question his sanity, and his fiercely pro-Zionist stance. More than sixty years after his death he still splits opinion amongst soldiers, academics and writers....
Helion and Company. 2024 — 151 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 - №115). In the early seventeenth century the Principality of Transylvania was a new state, organized in the decades that followed the dissolution of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, towards the middle of the sixteenth century. The rulers of Transylvania were vassals of the Ottoman Empire but enjoyed a...
Osprey Publishing, 1998. — 100 p. The first major battle in the Western theatre of the American Civil War (1861-1865), Shiloh came as a horrifying shock to both the American public and those in arms. For the first time they had some idea of the terrible price that would be paid for the preservation of the Union. On 6 April 1862 General Albert Sidney Johnston caught Grant and...
Praeger, 2010. — 230 p. French defeat in 1814 is too often shrugged off as the result of obvious and understandable factors. Napoleon Against Great Odds: The Emperor and the Defenders of France, 1814 challenges the widely accepted notion that war-weariness and internal political opposition to Napoleon were the decisive and direct causes of French defeat. At least as important,...
Bellona, 2001. — 234 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of ProstkI was fought near Prostki (German: Prostken), Duchy of Prussia on October 8, 1656 between forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and allied Crimean Tatars commanded by hetman Wincenty Gosiewski on one side, and on the other allied Swedish and Brandenburg forces commanded by Prince Georg Friedrich of...
Pickering and Chatto, 2008. — 275 p. Investigates the contract sector of the British Army during the long eighteenth century. This book argues that this group of financiers, private merchants, businessmen and farmers represented a vital interest group which was at the nexus of the fiscal-military structure. It draws on papers from the War Office, the Treasury and the Audit Office.
The History Press, 2007. — 224 p. The Battle of the Boyne in 1690 was the culmination of the ferocious struggle between two kings, James II and William III. This book makes use of research and sources, including eyewitness accounts, to analyze the opposing forces, their strategy, tactics and conduct of the war and the reasons for its eventual outcome.
Tempus Publishing, 2002. — 184 p. Fought a mere 6 miles from the center of York, Marston Moor was the largest and bloodiest battle of the English Civil War. On July 2, 1644, 18,000 Royalists led by Prince Rupert, Charles I’s nephew, fought 27,000 Parliamentarians in an attempt to relieve the Royalist force besieged at York. He failed. The defeat was catastrophic and the north...
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 160 p. Between 1642 and 1646 two armies fought for control of Southwest England in one of the decisive confrontations of the English Civil Wars. In this short, turbulent period Royalists loyal to King Charles I clashed with the forces of Parliament in a series of hard-fought campaigns that crisscrossed the West Country landscape. Rearguard actions,...
Tempus, 2005. — 224 p. This is a history of the crucial battle of Newbury in 1643, fought during the English Civil War. Late summer 1643 saw the Royalists in the English Civil War at the height of their military success. After three months of almost unbroken victories, the king's forces had gained control of much of the north and west of England, whilst Prince Rupert's...
Tempus, 2003. — 208 p. The effects of Civil War 1642-1646 are suffered most horrifically by the ordinary men, women, and children involuntarily caught up in it. Such was the fate of the citizens of Chester, who for almost 4 years found themselves at the center of the battle between King and Parliament. Chester's inhabitants withstood the terrors of bombardment and the rigors of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 206 p. A noteworthy development in recent history has been the disappearance of formal declarations of war. Using primary sources, this book examines the history of declaring war in the early modern era up to the writing of the US Constitution to identify the influence of early modern history on the framing of the Constitution. This study explores...
Wiltshire: Anthony Rowe Ltd., 2007. — 102 p. — (Society for Army Historical Research Special Publication No. 16). The British Way of War in South Africa, 1837-1902: New Approaches - Laband Making Choices: Constructing a Career in the Ranks of the Early Victorian Army - Rumbsy New Wars, New Press, New Country? The British Army, the Expansion of the Empire and the Mass Media,...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 96 p. — (Osprey guide to...) The War of 1812-1815 was a bloody confrontation that tore through the American frontier, the British colonies of Upper and Lower Canada, and parts of the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico. The conflict saw British, American, and First Nations' forces clash, and in the process, shape the future of North American...
Routledge, 2000. — 304 p. The Civil Wars Experienced is an exciting new history of the civil wars, which recounts their effects on the 'common people'. This engaging survey throws new light onto a century of violence and political and social upheaval. By looking at personal sources such as diaries, petitions, letters and social sources including the press, The Civil War...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 269 p. This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to traditional views of the brutal conditions supposedly prevailing in old-regime armies, Ilya Berkovich reveals that soldiers did not regard military discipline as illegitimate or unnecessarily cruel, nor did...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 319 p. The Wars of the period 1770-1830, including the North and South American Wars of independence and the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, are frequently considered to be the first wars fought by all combatants as national wars. Yet they touched every continent of the globe. New ideas about citizenship, patriotism and national belonging...
UCL Press, 2002. — 332 p. In 1688, Britain was successfully invaded, its army and navy unable to prevent the overthrow of the government. 1815, Britain was the strongest power in the world with the most successful navy and the largest empire. Britain had not only played a prominent role in the defeat of Napoleonic France, but had also established itself as a significant power...
New York: Routledge, 2002. — 244 p. — (Warfare and History). The onset of the Italian Wars in 1494, subsequently seen as the onset of 'modern warfare', provides the starting point for this impressive survey of European Warfare in early modern Europe. Huge developments in the logistics of war combined with exploration and expansion meant interaction with extra-European forms of...
London: UCL Press Ltd., 1994. — 276 p. — (Warfare and History). This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic Wars (1796-1815). This book is intended for broad-based undergrad courses on 18th century Europe/Britain and the Ancient Regime. 2nd and 3rd year thematic courses on warfare in...
Thames & Hudson, 2005. — 304 p. Cannae and Agincourt, Waterloo and Gettysburg, Stalingrad and Midway, the Tet Offensive...The latest book in the popular Seventies series assesses the great battles and conflicts in history from the past twenty-five centuries, and discusses the effects they have had on the development of states and civilizations. Organized chronologically into...
London: Cassell Press, 1999. — 224 p. In this refreshingly non-Eurocentric book, Jeremy Black examines warfare on a global scale at a time when the face of war was beginning to change. He describes new technology, from the introduction of the socket bayonet to the invention of the elevating screw for cannon. He covers innovations such as the guerrilla tactics that defeated the...
Frontline Books, 2015. — 224 p. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the British Army’s victories over the French at battles such as Blenheim in 1704, Minden and Quebec in 1759, and over the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746, were largely credited to its infantry’s particularly effective and deadly firepower. For the first time, David Blackmore has gone back to original...
Casemate Publishers, 2012. — 209 p. A vivid account of the often forgotten 1812 conflict between a young United States and an imperial Britain, including maps and illustrations. Scarcely three decades after the United States won its independence, the massive strength of its mother country returned, seeking to enforce its will on its wayward offspring. The combats were various...
Bellona, 2006. — 224 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Na początku z lasu wypadły 4 chorągwie tatarskie, wchodzące w skład pułku Stefana Czarnieckiego. Dowódca szwedzki zareagował natychmiastowym atakiem, oddalając się nieopatrznie od miejsca przeprawy. Lekkie chorągwie po pozorowanej ucieczce zawróciły. Wkrótce okazało się, że nacierający z impetem szwedzcy jeźdźcy, oddawszy salwę...
University of South Carolina Press, 2003. — 345 p. In 1779, Sir Henry Clinton and more than eight thousand British troops left the waters of New York to try a new tack in the war against the American patriots - capturing the colonies' most important southern port. Clinton and his officers believed that the capture of Charleston, South Carolina, would change both the seat of the...
Harper Perennial, 2005. — 364 p. Although frequently overlooked between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the War of 1812 tested a rising generation of American leaders; unified the United States with a renewed sense of national purpose; and set the stage for westward expansion from Mackinac Island to the Gulf of Mexico. USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides," proved the...
Little, Brown, 2014. — 480 p. A vibrant new look at the American Revolution's first months, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals When we reflect on our nation's history, the American Revolution can feel almost like a foregone conclusion. In reality, the first weeks and months of 1775 were very tenuous, and a fractured and ragtag group of colonial militias had to...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2006. — 360 p. In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed, which one historian called truly the first world war, would decide the fate of the entire North American...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 458 p. What attracts men from 136 different nations to embrace the harsh military code of an army that requires them to lay down their lives for a country not their own, if ordered to do so by politicians whose language many of them hardly speak? Douglas Boyd’s history of the Legion answers that question, with fifteen...
Endeavour Press, 2014. — 238 p. Since ships first set sail in the Mediterranean, The Gibraltar's Rock has been the gate of Fortress Europe. In ancient times, it was known as one of the Pillars of Hercules, and a glance at its formidable mass suggests that it may well have been created by the gods. Sought after by every nation with territorial ambitions in Europe, Asia, and...
UXL, 2003. — 264 p. "Remember the Maine!" became the battle cry for the U.S. after the battleship Maine mysteriously blew up off the coast of Spanish-controlled Cuba. Fought from April to August 1898, the Spanish-American War led to Cuba being liberated from Spanish rule and the United States gaining control of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines. U- X- L(R) 's...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 322 p. This volume covers a fascinating period in the history of the German army, a time in which machine guns, airplanes, and weapons of mass destruction were first developed and used. Eric Brose traces the industrial development of machinery and its application to infantry, cavalry, and artillery tactics. He examines the modernity versus...
Duke University Press Books, 2014. — 288 p. Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan region. From 1839 to 1842, and again from 1878 to 1880, Britain fought to expand its empire and prevent Russian expansion into the...
New York: Routledge, 2018. — 399 p. Europe from War to War, 1914–1945 explores this age of metamorphosis within European history, an age that played a crucial role in shaping the Europe of today. Covering a wide range of topics such as religion, arts and literature, humanitarian relief during the wars, transnational feminism, and efforts to create a unified Europe, it examines...
London and New York: Franc Cass, 2005. — 233 p. Despite the wealth of British Civil Wars studies, little work addresses the nature of military leadership effectiveness in terms of the eventual result -parliamentary victory. It is no longer sufficient to credit religion, economics, localism or constitutional concepts for the outcome without considering the role of effective...
Progressive Management, 2012. — 51 p. This book provides an in-depth account of the most decisive operation of the American Revolution, examining how the Americans and French moved land and naval forces from Rhode Island to Virginia, where they gained the tactical advantage over their opponents at Yorktown. Although the allied forces quickly surrounded the British army on their...
Da Capo Press, 1995. — 320 p. A detailed study of warfare in the early 1700s, when Marlborough and his commanders developed new tactics for infantry, cavalry, artillery and siege engineers. Chandler’s knowledge and research are meticulous, and his prose is graceful and lean a truly valuable source for the serious student of military history.
Helion & Company, 2019. — 250 p. The reign of Louis XIV of France had a great impact on the course of European and world military history. The years 1643 to 1715 were a defining epoch for Western military, diplomatic, and economic matters. Most of those years were marked by conflict between major European powers and the Sun King’s forces. This four-volume series is the first...
Helion & Company, 2020. — 284 p. The reign of Louis XIV of France had a great impact on the course of European and world military history. The years 1643 to 1715 were a defining epoch for Western military, diplomatic, and economic matters. Most of those years were marked by conflict between major European powers and the Sun King’s forces. This four-volume series is the first...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 315 p. The reign of Louis XIV of France had a great impact on the course of European and world history. The years 1643 to 1715 were a defining epoch for Western military, diplomatic, economic, and cultural matters. It was an era during which the French and eventually all armies saw extraordinary changes such as the rise of large professional armies,...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 318 p. This fourth and final part of our study concentrates on the early 18th-century War of Spanish Succession. It was the largest and most difficult conflict in Europe since the Thirty Years War and unsurpassed until the Napoleonic Wars. It started because of Bourbon France and Habsburg Austria’s conflicting candidates with the Spanish and soon...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992. — 280 p. Steven Clemente describes how conservative traditions and aristocratic values were preserved in the selection and training of German army officers prior to World War I despite changing times and the influx of many middle-class recruits into the army. He demonstrates how right thinking and service to the King and the Kaiser were the...
Greenwood Group, 1997. — 167 p. When the United States entered the Great War in April of 1917, there were few officers with any staff training, and none had actually served on large, complex staffs in combat. This work traces the development of the staff of the AEF and describes how Pershing found the generals to command those divisions that fought on the Western Front in World...
London, Hambledon, 2001. - 396 p. The Duke of Wellington, the most successful of British commanders, set a standard by which all subsequent British generals have been measured. His defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 crowned a reputation first won in India at Assaye and then confirmed during the Peninsular War, where he followed up his defence of Portugal by expelling the...
ABC-CLIO, 1999. — 400 p. An encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War (1846-48), including excerpts from eyewitness accounts that highlight the day-to-day reality of marching and fighting.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974. — 295 p. Almost immediately after Israel declared its independence in 1948, it began to benefit from a unique series of scientific and military exchanges with France. These exchanges, arranged for the most part outside normal diplomatic channels, were in conflict with the official pro-Arab position of the French government, and also...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 238 p. — (From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 №21). With the break up of the Spanish empire in South America, the continent split into nine independent states with often ill-defined boundaries. One of these was that between Bolivia and Chile, which the Atacama Desert separated, one of the driest regions in the world. When it was realized that the area...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1682470428. The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing unique...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 176 p. — ISBN: 978-1682470428. The U.S. Naval Institute Chronicles series focuses on the relevance of history by exploring topics like significant battles, personalities, and service components. Tapping into the U.S. Naval Institute's robust archives, these carefully selected volumes help readers understand nuanced subjects by providing unique...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. — 608 p. In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on the throne Shah Shuja ul-Mulk. On the way in, the British faced little resistance. But after two...
University Press of America, 2009. - 116 p. This study represents the first published translation and analysis of an intriguing scheme of invasion of the British Isles that formed the foundation of all later invasion plans drawn up in the ivory towers of French diplomacy. References to invasion plans — made by Spain in the Spanish Armada (1585-98), or by the French Directory...
ABC-CLIO Inc., USA, California, 2008. Pages: 1112 "Devoted exclusively to the wars and military conflicts in North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from the days of early European exploration to the present, this timely reference surveys in great detail: thousands of specific battles, conflicts between European and native peoples, wars between European...
Pen and Sword Military, 2007. — 248 p. The campaign that led to the first Battle of Newbury in 1643 represents a vital phase in the English Civil War, yet rarely has it received the attention it deserves. In this compelling and meticulously researched new study, Jon Day shows how the campaign was critical to the outcome of the war and the defeat of Charles I. The late summer...
Bellona, 2009. — 199 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Siege of Kamenets-Podolsky - the Turkish siege of the Polish fortress of Kamenets-Podolsky on August 18 - 27, 1672 during the Polish-Turkish War of 1672 - 1676. The loss of the key fortress forced the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to sign the Peace of Buchach, surrender Podolia to the Turks and pay an annual tribute of 22,000...
Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1895. — 864 p. As its subtitle indicates, this book is a military history of Western Europe at the operational and strategic level through the XVII Century and the first decade of the XVIII Century, including the War of Spanish Succession and Charles XII's Russo-Swedish War. This is a very long book written 130 or so years ago in the language...
Naval Institute Press, 2012. — 352 p. Military historian David R. Dorondo examines the history of the German cavalry, a combat arm that survived World War I and rode to war again in 1939. He places the cavalry's World War II actions within the larger context of the mounted arm's development from the Franco-Prussian War to the Third Reich's surrender. The author contends that...
Chicago: Emperor's Press, 1999. — 289 p. 1799 - Russia's greatest soldier was at war in Italy and Switzerland. Led by Suvorov, believed by many to be the equal of Napoleon, the Russian and Austrian troops claimed one victory after another against the French. Much more than strategy and tactics, this a story of adventure as a Russian army fights desperate rearguard actions, and...
Hippocrene Books, 1974. — 272 p. The classic study of one of history's most famous armies has been heavily revised and updated. Over twenty more years of research and study helps tell us, not only why this army rose to fame at Rossbach and Leuthen, but what happened to it. A great army is made flesh and blood. We can see the rise of the cavalry from ridiculous to the superb;...
Hippocrene Books, 1977. - 256 p. This book is a summary of how the Austrian Theresian army worked; instead, the reader is treated to a great deal of interesting background on the empire as a whole and on its leadership; the book concludes with a 50-ish page capsule summary of the campaigns and battles of the empire, primarily in the War of Austrian Succession (1741-1748) and...
Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987. — 273 p. The armies of the Enlightenment Military Europe The officer class The private soldier Generals and armies War The campaign The battle On the wilder fringes The march of the siege The military experience in context and perspective Land war and the experience of civilian society The death of a memory Summary and conclusions Appendix...
Exeter University Print, 1981. — 96 p. — (Exeter Studies in History). This volume contains an excellent set of incisive essays that examine the ‘bigger’ picture of the age of the military revolutions. Each essay, including the Introduction, although originally read as conference papers, have been skilfully edited and revised to flow together to give a new look at factors at...
Greenwood Press, 1996. — 393 p. Foreshadowing the twentieth-century experience, the Spanish American War 1898-1899 was America's first modern foreign war. Catapulting the United States into an international world power, the war had lasting international implications. Besides America's acquisition of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Guam, the war led the United States...
Helion and Company, 2024. — 178 p. — (From Reason to Revolution №132). As well as being Emperor of the French (and note, incidentally, that Napoleon’s title was not ‘Emperor of France’) it is often forgotten, or simply overlooked, that Napoleon was also King of Italy – a state that essentially comprised all Italy north of the Kingdom of Naples. The Kingdom of Italy was a...
Routledge, 2018. — 392 p. The Spanish Civil War: A Military History takes a new, military approach to the conflict that became in Spain apart from 1936 to 1939. In many histories, the war has been treated as a primarily political event with the military narrative subsumed into a much broader picture of the Spain of 1936-1939 in which the chief themes are revolution and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 236 p. For a full month in the autumn of 1812 the 2,000-strong garrison of the fortress the French had constructed to overawe the city of Burgos defied the Duke of Wellington. In this work a leading historian of the Peninsular teams up with a leading conflict archaeologist to examine the reasons for Wellington's failure.
Helion and Company. 2021 — 294 p. This three-volume series will describe and analyze the ‘Swedish Deluge’ (top szwedski), the devastating 1655 – 1660 series of wars fought between Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Brandenburg-Prussia, Muscovite Russia, Transylvania, Cossack Ukraine, the Tatar Khanate of Crimea, and the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Swedish...
Helion and Company. 2022 — 227 p. This book describes and analyzes the ‘Swedish Deluge’ (top szwedski), the devastating 1655 – 1660 series of wars fought between Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Brandenburg-Prussia, Muscovite Russia, Transylvania, Cossack Ukraine, the Tatar Khanate of Crimea, and the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Swedish King Charles X...
Helion and Company. 2023 — 427 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721). The book describes and analyzes the two devastating wars fought between Sweden and Denmark-Norway during the reign of King Charles X Gustav of Sweden, an experienced former general of the Thirty Years’ War. The Dano-Swedish War of 1657 – 1658 was initiated by King Frederick III of Denmark-Norway, who saw an...
The History Press, 2015. — 160 p. — (Battle Story). Blenheim has gone down in history as one of the turning points of the War of the Spanish Succession - and some would say in the history of conflict in Europe. The overwhelming Allied victory ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army, thus preventing the collapse of the Grand Alliance. Bavaria was knocked out...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 256 p. Blenheim, Ramilles, Oudenarde, Malplaquet - much has been written about the brilliant victories of the Duke of Marlborough’s Anglo-Dutch army over the armies of Louis XIV of France during the War of the Spanish Succession. Less attention has been focused on the men and the military organization that made these achievements possible - the soldiers,...
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 144 p. On Sunday 23 May 1706, near the village of Ramillies in modern Belgium, the Anglo-Dutch army commanded by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, inflicted a devastating defeat on the French army of the Duke de Villeroi. Marlborough's triumph on that day ranks alongside Blenheim as one of the great feats of his extraordinary military career. The...
Pen and Sword Military, 2009. — 495 p. The Great Boer War (1899 - 1902) – more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War – was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African...
Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop), 2023. — 109 p. — (Soldiers & Weapons 049). This book looks at uniforms, rank system, and organization for a new type of Turkish Soldier, other than Janissary providing the main Soldier-type during the French Revolution, and Early Napoleonic Wars. The debut of the Levend Chiftlik Regiment in 1799, during the French siege of Acre, and in the...
St. Martin’s Press, 1975. — 444 p. The War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) was a European conflict of the early 18th century, triggered by the death of the childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700, the last Habsburg monarch of Spain. His closest heirs were members of the Austrian Habsburg and French Bourbon families; acquisition of an undivided Spanish Empire by...
London: Routledge, 2005. — 250 p. Drawing on a vast range of previously classified government archives as well as interviews with key participants, this first volume of the official history of the Falklands Campaign is the most authoritative account of the origins of the 1982 war. In the first chapters the author analyzes the long history of the dispute between Argentina and...
London: Routledge, 2005. — 812 p. In this official history of the Falklands Campaign, Lawrence Freedman provides a detailed and authoritative account of one of the most extraordinary periods in recent British political history and a vivid portrayal of a government at war. After the shock of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands in April 1982, Margaret Thatcher faced the...
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 96 p. — (Essential Histories). During the 19th century Britain entered into three brutal wars with Afghanistan, each one saw the British trying and failing to gain control of a warlike and impenetrable territory. The first two wars (1839-42 and 1878-81) were wars of the Great Game; the British Empire's attempts to combat growing Russian influence near...
Routledge, 2002. — 245 p. — (Military History and Policy). The essays that comprise this collection examine the development and influence of the British General Staff from the late Victorian period until the eve of World War II. They trace the changes in the staff that influenced British military strategy and subsequent operations on the battlefield.
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 415 p. The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years. This iconoclastic study shows how it was refashioned in the late nineteenth century, and how it was subsequently and repeatedly reinvented to suit the changing roles that were forced upon the army. Based upon a combination of official papers,...
Edinburgh, Pearson Education Ltd., 2000. - 401 p. The Northern Wars examines a period of critical importance for the history of eastern and northern Europe. It provides an accessible analysis of the neglected but highly important series of wars fought between 1558 and 1721 for control of the Baltic and for hegemony in northeastern Europe. At the beginning of the period Sweden...
New York: Thomas Yoseloff Inc. — 416 p. This work (firstly published in 1942) tells the history of America's wars, from the War of Independence, through the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, to World War I. Analysing each battle, the author narrates the progress of events at Gettysburg, Trenton, the Meuse-Argonne, San Jacinto, San Juan...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 205 p. — (European History in Perspective). This title explores war's connections with, and effects on, technical, social, economic, philosophical and political change. It is not a campaign history rather, it examines the development of warfare in the eurocentric world of the 19th-century from a thematic perspective, employing episodes of military...
London: Routledge, 2001. — 112 p. — (Lancaster Pamphlets). A concise history of events in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland during the 1640s. Gaunt explores the relationship between the kingdoms and assesses whether the wars can be seen as a single conflict or inter-related, separate conflicts.
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 64 p. From camp to battlefield, Keith Rocco's brilliant paintings evoke the drama, emotion and action of the Civil War. Twenty four full color paintings and many additional color vignettes, including some published here for the first time, tell the story of the war from the perspective of the soldiers who fought it.
Routledge, 2002. — 277 p. That is what this book is about - how early modern European states were constructed, manufactured, bought, or cajoled into existence. Jan Glete writes an informative synthesis of old and new interpretations to examine state building in Spain, the Dutch Republic, and Sweden. It is military history with a strong dose of economic and social theory to...
Leiden: Brill, 2004. — 290 p. — (History of Warfare). This volume examines the role and significance of Scottish soldiers in France in the age of the Sun King, Louis XIV. The study examines the complex relationship of expatriate Scottish soldiers to their homeland and native sovereign, within the context of a changing environment for military employment. The amity of the...
Lyons Press, 2013. — 336 p. In a time of terror for Europe’s monarchs--imprisoned, exiled, executed--Napoleon’s army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent João had to make the most fraught decision of his life. Protected by the British Navy, he fled to Brazil with his entire family, including his mentally ill mother, most of the nobility, and the entire state...
Brill, 2009. — 425 p. “A sorry and very lamentable thing:” the high command of the Army of Flanders, from victory to defeat The Eighty Years War, 1567–1659 Noble class and status in Early Modern Spain The structure of the high command and the duties of its major tactical ranks Infantry Cavalry Artillery The garrisons: Governors and Castellans Commanders-in-chief Bureaucratic...
W. W. Norton and Company, 2013. — 320 p. Flodden 1513: the biggest and bloodiest Anglo-Scottish battle. Its causes spanned many centuries; its consequences were as extraordinary as the battle itself. On September 9, 1513, the vicious rivalry between the young Henry VIII of England and his charismatic brother-in-law, James IV of Scotland, ended in violence at Flodden Field in...
Pen and Sword Books, 2015. — 256 p. Between 1805 and 1807 the British mounted several expeditions into the South Atlantic aimed at weakening Napoleon s Spanish and Dutch allies. The targets were the Dutch colony on South Africa s Cape of Good Hope, which potentially threatened British shipping routes to India, and the Spanish colonies in the Rio de la Plata basin (now parts of...
Boydell Press, 2005. — 203 p. — (Warfare in History). Yorktown (1781), where a British Army, commanded by Lord Cornwallis, surrendered to the American forces under George Washington and their French allies, has generally been considered one of the decisive battles of the American War of Independence. This accessible and authoritative account of the battle and the wider campaign...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 272 p. By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colorful successors under whose leadership the warrior nation built a fearsome...
Cassell, 2007. — 384 p. This book is not only a complete history of the Zulus but also an account of the way the British won absolute rule in South Africa. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, Shaka Zulu established a nation in south-east Africa which was to become the most politically sophisticated and militarily powerful black nation in the entire area. Although...
Pen & Sword Military, 2012. — 186 p. Adrian Greaves uses his exceptional knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu War to look beyond the two best known battles of Isandlwana and the iconic action at Rorke’s Drift to other fiercely fought battles. He covers little recorded engagements and battles such as Nyezane which was fought on the same day as the slaughter of Imperial troops at...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 240 p. The story of the mighty imperial British army’s defeat at Iswandlwana in 1879 has been much written about but never with the detail and insight revealed by Dr Adrian Greaves’ research. In re-constructing the dramatic and fateful events, the Author draws on recently discovered letters, diaries and papers of survivors and other contemporaries such as...
Cassell, 2002. — 464 p. On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at Rorke's Drift. The battle that ensued, one of the British Army's great epics, has since entered into legend....
Leiden: Brill, 2004. — 250 p. This book documents the commitment of the commanders of King Charles I's armies to religious observance and moral discipline. Through a close textual analysis of printed military regulations, royal proclamations, and injunctions, a long tradition of British military regulation is outlined and developmental patterns of influence in the orders are...
Routledge, 2014. — 304 p. Field Marshal Alexander Leslie was the highest ranking commander from the British Isles to serve in the Thirty Years’ War 1618-1648. Though Leslie’s life provides the thread that runs through this work, the authors use his story to explore the impacts of the Thirty Years’ War, the British Civil Wars and the age of Military Revolution.
Patrick Stephens Ltd., 1975. — 134 p. Beginning with an account of the general development of infantry, cavalry, and artillery weapons during the period 1480 to 1650, this book then goes on to describe every major nation, from France and Spain to Sweden and the Netherlands; Ottoman Turkey and Persia to Muscovy and Poland. In each case the origins, strengths, basic organization,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 256 p. The Hero of Italy examines a salient episode in Italy's Thirty Years' War with Spain and France, whereby the young duke Odoardo Farnese of Parma embraced the French alliance, only to experience defeat and occupation after two tumultuous years (1635-1637). Gregory Hanlon stresses the narrative of events unfolding in northern Italy,...
McFarland & Company, 2006. — 744 p. Forts of the United States is the result of more than 20 years of meticulous research. Author Hannings manages an American military history publishing company. The purpose of the dictionary is to provide "a brief history of each of the fortifications established in what became the United States." The dictionary records a wide-ranging number...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 408 p. For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 284 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850). This volume represents the first dedicated study of the British Yeomanry Cavalry, delving into the institution’s history from the cessation of hostilities with France in 1815 through to the eve of the First World War in 1914. This social history explores the Yeomanry’s composition and place within...
London, Longmans Ltd., 1969. - 327 p. This readable account brings together a compendium of Irish Battles from Clontarf in 1014 to Arklow in 1798. Each of the dozen or so battles has a chapter devoted to it. The author is careful to provide a useful background for each event, with discussions concerning politics, local history, Irish conerns, social conditions, English...
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2011. — 432 p. For the first time in a generation, here is a bold new account of the Battle of the Marne, a cataclysmic encounter that prevented a quick German victory in World War I and changed the course of two wars and the world. With exclusive information based on newly unearthed documents, Holger H. Herwig re-creates the dramatic battle and...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 316 p. Wars have played a fundamental part in modern German history. Although infrequent, conflicts involving German states have usually been extensive and often catastrophic, constituting turning-points for Europe as a whole. Absolute War is the first in a series of studies from Mark Hewitson that explore how such conflicts were experienced by...
Bicentennial Edition. — University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 480 p. — ISBN: 978-0252078378. This comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised for the 200th anniversary of the historic conflict, is a myth-shattering study that will inform and entertain students, historians, and general readers alike. Donald R. Hickey explores the military,...
Routledge, 2008. — 271 p. This book examines the creation of ‘national armies’ through compulsory military service in France and Prussia during the French Revolution and the Prussian Reform Period. The French Revolution tried to establish military and political structures in which the armed forces and society would merge. In order to ensure that the army would never become a...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 95 p. The Texas Revolution is remembered chiefly for the 13-day siege of the Alamo and its immortal heroes. This book describes the war and the preceding years that were marked by resentments and minor confrontations as the ambitions of Mexico's leaders clashed with the territorial determination of Texan settlers. When the war broke in October 1835,...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 309 p. The British Expeditionary Force at the start of World War I was tiny by the standards of the other belligerent powers. Yet, when deployed to France in 1914, it prevailed against the German army because of its professionalism and tactical skill, strengths developed through hard lessons learned a dozen years earlier. In October 1899,...
Penguin Books, 1983. — 351 p. The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 259 p. In Echoes of Success, Ian Stuart Kelly uses new information about late Victorian Scottish Highland battalions to provide new insights into how groups identify themselves, and pass that sense on to successive generations of soldiers. Kelly applies concepts from organisational theory (the study of how organisations function) to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 270 p. The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1815) were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland, drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and cultural history of the period and the history of warfare more...
Holt Paperbacks, 2014. — 304 p. Boston, 1775: A town occupied by General Thomas Gage's redcoats and groaning with Tory refugees from the Massachusetts countryside. Besieged for two months by a rabble in arms, the British decided to break out of town. American spies discovered their plans, and on the night of June 16, 1775, a thousand rebels marched out onto Charlestown...
Holt Paperbacks, 2014. — 435 p. In the fall of 1776 the British delivered a crushing blow to the Revolutionary War efforts. New York fell and the anguished retreat through New Jersey followed. Winter came with a vengeance, bringing what Thomas Paine called "the times that try men's souls." The Winter Soldiers is the story of a small band of men held together by George...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. — 285 p. V.G. Kiernan examines the manner in which the wars were conducted and their impact not only on the conquered societies but also on the societies which launched them. Kiernan addresses the ideology of empire - the concept of the civilizing mission, the triumph of civilization over barbarism - that the missionary organizations...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2015. — 272 p. The challenges we face today are not so different from Jefferson's, and we've much to learn from his boldness and from the courage of the marines and sailors who died to protect their country." This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third...
Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 377 p. This is a meticulously-researched and highly controversial study of the origins and development of parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics during the English Civil War. Professor Kishlansky challenges the fundamental assumptions upon which all previous interpretations of this period have been based. It is his contention that...
Bellona, 2001. — 248 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Hohenfriedberg or Hohenfriedeberg, now Dobromierz, also known as the Battle of Striegau, now Strzegom, was one of Frederick the Great's most admired victories. Frederick's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine on 4 June 1745 during the Second Silesian War (part...
Brill, 2010. — 292 p. — (History of Warfare, v. 60). Proto-colonial archaeology explores the physical origins of the world culture that evolved out of contacts made in the Age of Exploration, from Columbus to Cromwell. The early defended sites show how colonizing Europeans first responded to the challenges of new environments and new peoples, and how their choices led to...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 109 p. The heroic defence of the mission station at Rorke's Drift became the epic action of the Anglo-Zulu war. A small garrison defended this vulnerable border-post for ten hours and in the process won the northern sector at Ntcombe Drift, Hlobane and Khambula. This title also includes the story of the death of the exiled French Prince Imperial in a...
Stackpole Books, 1995. — 282 p. In January 1879 the forces of the independent Zulu kingdom inflicted a devastating defeat on the invading British army at Isandlwana. Yet the Zulu army was not a regular professional one like its British counterpart; it was in fact the manpower of the Zulu state, mobilised temporarily in the military service of the king. The Anatomy of the Zulu...
Pan, 2011. — 768 p. The battle of iSandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonisation of South Africa. In one bloody day over 800 British troops, 500 of their allies and at least 2000 Zulus were killed in a staggering defeat for the British empire. The consequences of the battle echoed brutally across the following decades as...
Osprey Publishing, 2010. — 64 p. John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, is one of the great commanders of history. Using his great charm and diplomatic skills he was able to bind troops from various European states into a cohesive army that won a string of victories over the French armies of King Louis XIV, the first of which was perhaps his most spectacular triumph - the...
Camden House, 2011. — 348 p. — (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture). Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 448 p. Between 1838 and 1888 the recently formed Zulu kingdom in southeastern Africa was directly challenged by the incursion of Boer pioneers aggressively seeking new lands on which to set up their independent republics, by English-speaking traders and hunters establishing their neighboring colony, and by imperial Britain intervening in Zulu affairs to...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995. — 253 p. Friedrich Beck was the single most important figure in the transformation of the inept Habsburg military into the modern military state that would wage World War I. He correctly perceived that only an elite body of officers responsible for war planning and preparation could provide lasting security for the Austro-Hungarian empire....
Westholme Publishing, 2017. — 344 p. Fought in New York, New England, and Canada, the conflict that began the long French and English struggle for the New World. While much has been written on the French and Indian War of 1754–1763, the colonial conflicts that preceded it have received comparatively little attention. Yet in King William’s War (1689-1697), the first clash...
Leiden, Brill, 2009. — 439 p. The period 1603-1645 witnessed the publication of more than ninety books, manuals, and broadsheets dedicated to educating Englishmen in the military arts. Written with the intention of creating the 'complete soldier', this didactic literature provided gentlemen with the requisite knowledge to engage in infantry, cavalry, and siege warfare. Drawing...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 292 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850). Spain's First Carlist War 1833-1840 was an unlikely agent of modernity. It pitted town against country, subalterns against elites, and Europe's Liberal powers against Absolute Monarchies. This book traces the individual, collective and international experience of this conflict, giving equal attention to...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 352 p. The most important conflicts in the founding of the English colonies and the American republic were fought against enemies either totally outside of their society or within it: barbarians or brothers. In this work, Wayne E. Lee presents a searching exploration of early modern English and American warfare, looking at the sixteenth-century...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 296 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850). Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume argues that although the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (from 1792 to 1815) are often understood as laying the foundations for total war, many eyewitnesses continued to draw upon older interpretative frameworks to make sense of the armed...
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2019. — xvii, 245 p.: charts. — New Directions in East Asian History. — ISBN: 9789813296756 (eBook). This book revisits the history of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from a Chinese perspective, examining Chinese strategy and exploring why China sent three million troops to Korea, in Mao's words, to defend the...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. — xviii, 320 p.: charts. — ISBN: 9780190681616. Western historians have long speculated about Chinese military intervention in the Vietnam War. It was not until recently, however, that newly available international archival materials, as well as documents from China, indicated the true extent and level of Chinese participation in the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 248 p. In 1878, H.M. High Commissioner for Southern Africa and the Lieut. General Commanding H.M. Forces, clandestinely conspired to invade the Zulu Kingdom. Drastically underestimating their foe, within days of entering the Zulu Kingdom the invaders had been vanquished in one of the greatest disasters ever to befall a British army. The author...
Frontline Books, 2010. — 256 p. The first Britons to reach Zululand were a handful of shipwrecked traders. They found themselves completely at the mercy of a nation whose name would become a byword for ferocity and courage. The castaways were fearful of their lives but, to their surprise, were well treated and prospered. At the time, the Indian Ocean shoreline of the Zulu...
Da Capo Press, 1999. — 418 p. Frederick the Great (1712-1786), King of Prussia, initiated the Seven Years' War in 1756; outfought the formidable French, Russian, and Austrian armies aligned against him; and established Prussia as a major power, thereby decisively influencing the next two centuries of European history. He was also a brilliant military thinker whose observations...
Leiden, Brill, 2003. — 245 p. — (History of Warfare). This volume examines Scots, goodly serving as military governors in the empires of Denmark-Norway, Sweden, Russia, and the Atlantic and South Asian sectors of the British Empire with a view to understanding Scotland's distinctive participation within European imperialism.
London: Frank Cass, 2004. — 194 p. — (Military History and Policy). This new book traces the disparities in the memory of Gallipoli (1915) that are evident in the countries that participated in the campaign. It explores the way in which history is written at the personal, local, professional, and national levels. This study tackles key questions about just how the history of...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 604 p. In the late 16th century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Malcolm takes this document as a point of departure to explore the lives of the entire Bruni family, whose members included an archbishop of the Balkans, the captain of the papal flagship at the...
Scarecrow Press, 2006. — 616 p. The War of 1812 was an extremely complicated war motivated by British seizures of American vessels and goods, American desire to expand into Canada, and impressment of American sailors into the British Navy. However, these are merely the immediate causes. To fully understand the War of 1812, one must delve deeper into history. This book does just...
Little, Brown and Company, 1978. — 538 p. Famous U.S. General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), the public figure, the private man, the soldier-hero whose mystery and appeal created a uniquely American legend, portrayed in a brilliant biography that will challenge the cherished myths of admirers and critics alike.
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 488 p. This book explores the ways in which the diverse military experiences at home and abroad of the British and Irish people during the seventeenth century introduced modern military theory and practice into the Three Kingdoms of the British Isles and shaped the embryonic British army that emerged during the reign of the soldier-king William III.
University of York, 1977. — 418 p. This work covers the English Cromwell's Army's role in politics from circa March 1647 to May 1660, that is from when it emerges as an active political force to the restoration of the Stuarts (to 1660 year). The Volume 1 described the historical situation and events from March 1647 until January 1655.
University of York, 1977. — 403 p. This work covers the English Cromwell's Army's role in politics from circa March 1647 to May 1660, that is from when it emerges as an active political force to the restoration of the Stuarts (to 1660 year). The Volume 2 described the historical situation and events from March 1655 until May 1660.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 212 p. This book investigates the conflict over control over the Western Mediterranean in the late eighteenth-century. The Western Mediterranean during the 1790s featured a constant struggle for control over the region. While most histories point to military events such as the Italian Campaign as descriptive of this struggle between the two competing...
Trio, 2006. — 200 s. Dla czytelnika polskiego analiza konfliktów rosyjsko-tureckich jest niezmiernie ciekawa. Turcja bowiem, wobec uzależnienia Rzeczypospolitej od Rosji w XVIII w., kilkakrotnie występowała w obronie zagrożonych wolności szlacheckich, domagając się wyjścia z granic Polski sił rosyjskich. Naruszenie granicy tureckiej przez hajmaków ścigających konfederatów...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 228 p. Key military developments occurred in the Early Modern period, during which armies evolved from troops of medieval knights to Napoleon's mass levies. Firearms impelled change, necessitating new battlefield tactics and fundamentally altering siege and naval warfare. The size and cost of military forces expanded enormously, and new standing...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 352 p. The first reference work of its kind, this volume on the United States-Mexican War encompasses the decade of the 1840s, focusing on the War years of 1846-1848. More than a dozen maps were drawn for this book, some of which depict major regions and localities over which armies of both nations moved great distances to position for battle, and...
Harvard University Press, 1996. — 320 p. In the theater of war, how important is costume? And in peacetime, what purpose does military spectacle serve? This book takes us behind the scenes of the British military at the height of its brilliance to show us how dress and discipline helped to mold the military man and attempted to seduce the hearts and minds of a nation while...
Bellona, 2009. — 324 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Warsaw was a battle which took place near Warsaw on July 28–July 30 1656, between the armies of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden and Brandenburg. It was a major battle in the Second Northern War between Poland and Sweden in the period 1655–1660, also known as The Deluge. In the battle, a smaller...
Routledge, 2003. — 207 p. This work examines warfare in Europe from the Fashoda conflict in modern-day Sudan to the recent war in Iraq. The twentieth century was by far the world's most destructive century with two global wars marking the first half of the century and the constant fear of nuclear annihilation haunting the second half. Throughout, this book treats warfare as a...
State University of New York Press, 2008. — 276 p. On July 8, 1758, British General James Abercromby ordered a controversial frontal assault of the French defenses on the Ticonderoga peninsula in upstate New York. Outnumbering the French by four to one, the capture of their fort, named Carillon, seemed all but assured. Once the fort--called the "key to a continent"--was in...
Praeger, 2000. — 308 p. By 1756 the wilderness war for control of North America that erupted two years earlier between France and England had expanded into a global struggle among all of Europe's Great Powers. Its land and sea battles raged across the North American continent, engulfed Europe and India, and stretched from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific...
Praeger, 2000. — 343 p. For more than a century and a half, from 1607 to 1763, Britain and France struggled to master the eastern half of North America. They fought five blood-soaked wars and continuously provoked various Indian tribes to raise arms against each other's subjects for the mastery of the land. The last French and Indian War, from 1754 to 1760, would dwarf all...
Pen & Sword Military, 2010. — 256 p. This is NOT just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is the history of a quite extraordinary century and a bit which began when a tiny of force of Ottoman Turkish warriors was invited by the Christian Byzantine Emperor to cross the Dardanelles from Asia into...
Bloomsbury India, 2019. — 248 p. 10,000 Afghans. 21 Sikh soldiers. One epic battle. On 12 September 1897, 21 Sikh soldiers of 36th SIKH Regiment stood undeterred as they guarded the post of Saragarhi against the onslaught of almost 10,000 Afghan tribesmen – a battle for the ages that ended in them giving their lives in a final hand-to-hand combat. The unparalleled heroics of...
London: Greenwood Press, 2008. — 607 p. Dominated by the ambitions of France's King Louis XIV, Europe in the years 1650-1715 witnessed a series of wars from which emerged many of the theories, practices, and technologies that characterize modern warfare. During this period, European armies evolved modern ideas of army organization and military leadership, as well as modern...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 173 p. In November 1758 English Brigadier General John Forbes's army expelled the French army from Fort Duquesne at the forks of the Ohio River. Over seven months Forbes had co-ordinated three obstructive and competitive colonies, managed Indian diplomacy, and cut a road through over a hundred miles of mountain and forest. This is the first full...
Ashgate Books, 2009. — 291 p. Many historians consider the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648, to mark a watershed in European international relations. It is generally agreed that Westphalia brought to an end more than a century of religious conflicts and marked the beginning of a new era in which secular power politics was the prime motivating...
John Lane and Bodley Head, 1896. — 440 p. Introduction — The Navy before 1509 Henry Vin, 1509-1547 Edward VI, 1547-1553 Mary and Philip and Mary, 1553-1558 Elizabeth, 1558-1603 James I, 1603-1625 Charles I, 1625-1649, The Seamen Royal and Merchant Shipping The Administration. The Commonwealth, 1649-1660
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 218 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850). Showcasing French participation in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, this book shows the French army at the heart of revolutionary, social, and cultural change. Osman argues that efforts to transform the French army into a citizen army before 1789 prompted and helped shape the French...
Osprey Publisher, 2013. — 96 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78200-767-8. In 1808, Napoleon Bonaparte treacherously outmaneuvered the corrupt Spanish Bourbons and installed his brother Joseph as King of Spain, igniting the flames of war across the Iberian Peninsula. Far across the Atlantic, this event lit the fuse for a war that raged for the better part of two decades as Spain's colonies...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 96 p. The French-Indian War was fought in the forests, open plains, and forts of the North American frontier. The French army, supported by North American tribes, was initially more successful than the British Army, who suffered from lack of experience at woodland fighting. This title explains the background to the wars and charts the military...
Leiden, Brill, 2007. — 390 p. — (History of Warfare). Vauban under Siege is the first systematic comparison of the theory of Vaubanian siegecraft with its reality. It places Vauban's siege accomplishments back into their broader context, highlighting his continuation of the quest for ever-greater efficiency pursued by a century of military engineers. Based on a comprehensive...
Praeger Security International, 2008. — 269 p. This book follows Italy's military history from the late Renaissance through the present day, arguing that its leaders have consistently looked back to the power of Imperial Rome as they sought to bolster Italy's status and influence in the world. As early as the late 15th century, Italian city-states played important roles in...
Helion and Company, 2023. — 272 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 №107). In autumn 1621, at a fortified camp near Khotyn (Chocim), in the Principality of Moldavia, allied Polish, Lithuanian, and Cossack armies faced a large Ottoman army led by Sultan Osman II. It was the concluding act of a war that had started with the defeat of a Polish army at Cecora one year earlier....
University of North Carolina Press, 2000. — 429 p. In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to the Union. This question was most fractious in the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. In Missouri, it was largely settled at Wilson's Creek on August 10, 1861, in a...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 215 p. — (Great Battles). The battle of Culloden (1745) lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before. But for all this,...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 140 p. — (Retinue to Regiment). On 6 July 1495, a sudden gunshot came from the right bank of the Taro River in the Gerola Valley, near Fornovo (not far from Parma); shortly afterward a sky full of clouds unleashed its fury on a wretched battlefield. That gunshot kicked off a battle that changed warfare and represented the starting point of a raging...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 162 p. The League of Cambrai was an alliance stipulated in December 1508 between the main European powers to halt the expansion of the Republic of Venice. The war that followed was one of the major conflicts in the Italian wars: it lasted from 1508 to 1516 and saw several stages. The major States involved were the Kingdom of France, the Pontifical...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 134 p. In the early hours of the 24th of February 1525, under the walls of the city of Pavia, the best Imperial fought against one of the largest French armies ever to have invaded the Italian states. Armies led by the young Francis Ist of France and the Emperor Charles Vth fought for the coveted prize of the Duchy of Milan. By the end of the...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 130 p. April 1544: The French army led by Charles of Bourbon Count of Enghien - deployed in the siege of Cairignano, a city occupied by the imperials – was ordered to fight Alfonso d’Avalos Marquis of Vasto, the hated Imperial rival. Almost twenty years after the legendary Battle of Pavia, the two most powerful European States faced each other again...
Helion and Company, 2024. — 198 p. — (Retinue to Regiment №25). In November 1500, Ferdinand of Spain and Louis XII of France signed the secret Treaty of Granada. This agreement enabled Spain and France to easily conquer and divide the Kingdom of Naples in the years 1501 and 1502. The treaty divided Naples between the two nations, however, disputes arose over the division and...
Bellona, 2008. — 276 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Blenheim, fought on 13 August 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. The overwhelming Allied victory ensured the safety of Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army, thus preventing the collapse of the Grand Alliance. A combination of deception and skilled administration – designed to conceal his...
Bellona, 2010. — 190 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Ramillies, fought on 23 May 1706, was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. For the Grand Alliance – Austria, England, and the Dutch Republic – the battle had followed an indecisive campaign against the Bourbon armies of King Louis XIV of France in 1705. Although the Allies had captured Barcelona that year,...
Mokomoji knyga. — Vilnius: Generolo Jono Žemaičio Lietuvos karo akademija, 2010. — 255 p.; iliustr. Tutorial. Illustrated history of military art, in Lithuanian. — ISBN: 978-9955-423-87-4. Lenkijos karo istorijos teoretikas Benonas Miskevičius ( Miśkiewicz ) suformulavo savo apibrėžimą: „Karas yra istorinis įvykis, kurio turinį sudaro įvairių nesutarimų, prieštaringumų ar...
The History Bookman, 2016. — 312 p. The book begins with a short history of the Confederation of the Rhine and then jumps immediately into the history of the Saxon Army in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. There are sixty pages of information on their campaigns. The bulk of the book however, looks at the different regiments and units that made up the army. One of the...
Facts On File, 2004. — 273 p. — (A To Z of African Americans). Alphabetically arranged A — Z entries profile more than 125 biographies of African American members of the military, including Eugene Jacques Bullard, the only black pilot to serve in World War I and Civil War nurse Suzy Baker King Taylor.
Cassell, 1999. — 224 p. The Civil War was the bloodiest in America's history, comprising 149 engagements of importance and 2200 skirmishes. The author narrates the history of the war and also describes how such factors as generalship, staff work, organization, intelligence and logistics affect the shape and decisions of the battlefield. He looks at the strengths, and weaknesses...
Howell Press Inc., 1999. — 288 p. A military history of the English Civil War which offers a detailed and lucid examination of the principal campaigns and battles; commenting upon the development of tactics and the extent to which in the King's armies both strategy and tactics were moulded by a chronic shortage of ammunition.
Frontline Books, 2013. — 256 p. Crown, Covenant and Cromwell is a groundbreaking military history of the Great Civil War or rather the last Anglo-Scottish War as it was fought in Scotland and by Scottish armies in England between 1639 and 1651. While the politics of the time are necessarily touched upon, it is above all the story of those armies and the men who marched in them...
Frontline Books, 2017. — 280 p. Britain was rapidly emerging as the most powerful European nation, a position France long believed to be her own. Yet with France still commanding the largest continental army, Britain saw its best opportunities for expansion lay in the East. Yet, as Britain’s influence increased through its official trading arm, the East India Company, the ruler...
Penguin Press, 2009. — 407 p. A bestselling historian recounts sixteen years that shook the world--the epic clash between Europe and the Ottoman Turks that ended the Renaissance and brought Islam to the gates of Vienna. In the bestselling Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston Jr. limned two epochal conflicts between Islam and Christendom. Here he examines the ultimate...
Chelsea House Publishers, 2002. — 118 p. Explains the events leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg (1863), the defining battle of the American Civil War (1861-1865), and describes the battle and its aftermath.
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2020. — 385p. — ISBN: 978-0-7864-4654-4. It should be noted from the outset that this is a study of the kamikazes from the American perspective. Sources used consist primarily of reports from army, navy, Marine, and merchant marine units, as well as secondary published materials. Although some records exist in Japanese pertinent to the...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pages: 300 The Flanders armada, took shape in response to the use of seapower by the Dutch rebels, and evolved into the most effective unit in Spain's defence establishment. In combination with its privateering auxiliaries, this elite striking force dominated the North Sea for some twenty years (1625-1645), and campaigned also in the...
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 288 p. The New Model Army was one of the best-known and most effective armies ever raised in England. Oliver Cromwell was both its greatest battlefield commander and the political leader whose position depended on its support. In this meticulously researched and accessible new study, Keith Roberts describes how Cromwell's army was recruited, inspired,...
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 95 p. The Great Plains cover the central two-thirds of the United States, and during the nineteenth century were home to some of the largest and most powerful Indian tribes on the continent. The conflict between those tribes and the newcomers from the Old World lasted about one hundred and fifty years, and required the resources of five nations -...
Harry N. Abrams, 2011. — 540 p. The Crusades were the bridge between medieval and modern history, between feudalism and colonialism. In many ways, the little explored later Crusades were the most significant of them all, for thy made the crisis truly global. The Last Crusaders is about the periods last great conflict between East and West, and the titanic contest between...
Rowlands Guy The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV. Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701. Cambridge University Press - 433 c. The ‘personal rule’ of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men and the War Ministry. However, this is the first book to treat the French...
Little, Brown and Company, 2004. — 896 p. One late summer's day in 1642 two rival armies faced each other across the rolling Warwickshire countryside at Edgehill. There, Royalists faithful to King Charles I engaged in a battle with the supporters of the Parliament. Ahead lay even more desperate battles like Marston Moor and Naseby. The fighting was also to rage through Scotland...
Llibres de Matricula, 2011. — 136 p. The War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1714) is undoubtedly one of the most important wars in the history of Catalonia. Its consequences have shaped the political and economic Catalan panorama of the last 300 years, and its stamp on society is still so present that battles like Almansa (1707) and especially that of September 11th in...
The History Press, 2013. — 256 p. The Battle of Flodden in 1513 was the largest battle ever to take place between England and Scotland. James IV himself led an army of 30,000 men over the border into England, ostensibly in revenge for the murder of a Scotsman, but in reality to assist their ally the French by diverting the forces of Henry VIII. The Scots were hampered by...
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. 289 p. 2016. The Ottoman conquest of the Balkans constitutes a major change in European history. Scholarship on the topic is extensive, yet the evidence produced by decades of research is very scattered and lacking comprehensive synthesis, not to mention consensual interpretation. Although major political and military milestones seem to have...
University Press of Colorado, 1998. — 251 p. Based on exhaustive research in archives in the United States and France, this book provides detailed study of some sixty-five hundred officers and soldiers of the French expeditionary corps that served under Rochambeau in the American Revolution. It traces their experiences in this country after their departure from France in the...
The History Press, 2013. — 264 p. In the autumn of 1644 was fought one of the most sustained and desperate sieges of the First Civil War when Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven finally stormed Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the King’s greatest bastion in the north-east and the key to his power there. The city had been resolutely defended throughout the year by the Marquis...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 303 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850). This book places itself at the intersection of two fields of study-military history and political ideologies-in order to investigate the troubling links between warfare and republicanism during the Revolutionary era. This international team of historians probes the dynamics of nations born of...
American Philosophical Society, 1991. — 502 p. Kenneth M. Setton provides a brief military survey of the Thirty Years' Was as part of the background to Venetian relations with the Ottoman Empire. Having lost the island of Crete to the Turks in the long Cretan War of 1645-1669, Venice renewed her Morean Warfare with the Porte in 1684, this time as the ally of Austria after the...
Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2006. — 272 p. Beautifully illustrated book tells about the Anglo-French and "Indian" wars in North America in the 17th century. Review "Deftly edited by Ruth Sheppard, Empires Collide combines elements from a number of previous Osprey books to synthesize a military history of the French and Indian War. A lavish collection of vintage and specially...
Hambledon Press, 2003. — 358 p. Nowhere is the mid-20th century 'historiographical revolution' in Irish history better represented than in the writings of J. G. Simms, one of the most prolific historians of this generation. Simms tackled some of the most vexed and vexing questions in all Irish history: the wars, confiscations, persecutions and politics of the later 17th...
Massey University Press, 2020. — 432 p. A fascinating and detailed study of the major campaigns on the New Zealand Wars.As interest in the New Zealand Wars grows, Soldiers, Scouts andSpies offers a unique insight into the major campaigns fought between 1845 and 1864 by Britishtroops, their militia and Maori allies, and Maori iwi and coalitions. It was a time of rapid...
London: I.B. Tauris Ltd., 2011. — 262 p. History remembers Wellington's defeat of Napoleon, but has forgotten the role of Field Marshal Josef Wenzel Radetzky (1766-1858) in the battles which led to Napoleon's abdication and first exile in 1814. As Chief of Staff to the allied coalition of 1813-1814, Radetzky determined the shape of the most decisive campaigns of the Napoleonic...
Bellona, 2006. — 257 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Czarne, also known as Battle of Hammerstein or Hamersztyn, took place during the Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629), between April 12 and 17, 1627 at Czarne (Hammerstein), in the province of Royal Prussia, Poland. The Polish forces were led by Field Crown Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski while the Swedes were led by Johann...
Bellona, 2003. — 229 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Warka on April 7, 1656 between forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth commanded by Stefan Czarniecki on one side, and on the other Swedish forces commanded by Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach. Battle was fought for about two hours, ending in Polish victory. It was first Polish success in the open field...
Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 257 p. This original study depicts the Scottish soldier as an "empire builder". Drawing from a wide range of sources, including soldiers' writings in the provincial press, it examines how military achievements contributed to a growing sense of national identity and a deepening imperial commitment from the Crimean War to the end of the...
Helion Company, 2021. — 243 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 №69). The Bavarian Army has been overshadowed by those of Gustavus Adolphus’ and Wallenstein’s Armies, but it was one of only a few armies to have fought throughout the Thirty Years War, first as part of the Catholic League and then as an independent army after the Peace of Prague. Among the generals of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 2018 p. — ISBN: 978-0521726863. This book is a narrative history of the many dimensions of the War of 1812 - social, diplomatic, military, and political - which places the war's origins and conduct in transatlantic perspective. The events of 1812-1815 were shaped by the larger crisis of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe. In synthesizing and...
I.B. Tauris Co., 2011. — 272 p. Britain's military involvement in Afghanistan is a contentious subject, yet it is often forgotten that the current conflict is in fact the fourth in a string of such wars dating back as far as the early nineteenth century. Aiming to protect the British territories in India from the expanding Russian empire, the British fought a series of...
Routledge Group, 2010. — 244 p. — (Cass Military Studies). This book examines the strategies pursued by the Colonies and the other combatants in the American War for Independence, placing the conflict in its proper global context. Many do not realize the extent to which the 1775 colonial rebellion against British rule escalated into a global conflict. Collectively, this volume...
Ashgate, 2009. — 259 p. — (Essays in honour of P.G.M. Dickson). In recent decades, historians of early-modern Europe, and above all those who study the eighteenth century, have elaborated the concept of what has been called the 'fiscal-military state'. This is a state whose international effectiveness was founded upon the development of large armed forces, whose performance and...
Pegasus Books, 2008. — 240 p. In his splendid study The Siege of Vienna (1683), the Oxford historian John Stoye provides a detailed account of the intricate machinations between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans. Mr. Stoye's description of the siege itself is masterly. He seems to know every inch of ground, every earthwork and fortification around the Imperial City, and he follows...
London: Routledge, 2001. — 245 p. Recently declassified documents and new scholarship have prompted this reassessment of the collusion between Israel, France and England which drove the 1956 War. International aspects, Israeli involvement, the plot which sparked off hostilities, and the Egyptian losses and gains are analyzed.
London: Routledge, 2003. — 319 p. Focusing on the early-modern period in western Europe, Frank Tallett gives an insight into the armies and shows how warfare had an impact on different social groups, as well as on the economy and on patterns of settlement. Tallett's book is rich, detailed, systematic, and a model of clear, well-constructed writing. He blends a range of sources...
London: Frank Cass, 2005. — 195 p. Operational art emerged from the military campaigns of Frederick the Great to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. It was the result of three dynamic interrelationships: between military and non-military factors such as social, economic and political developments; between military theory and practice; and between developments in military theory and...
Revised edition — University Alabama Press, 2006. — 188 p. Africans who fought alongside the British against the Zulu king. Black Africans made up more than half of the British army that invaded Zululand in January of 1879 and went on to fight the storied battles of Isandlwana, Rorke’s Drift, and Ulundi. The British force totaled some 16,800 men, at least 9,000 of whom were...
UCL Press Group, 2003. — 194 p. — (Warfare and History). Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires. It includes the discussion of: the relationship between war and the slave trade the role of Europeans in promoting African wars and supplying African armies the...
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 224 p. A new account of Monmouth's Rebellion of 1685 and the decisive Battle of Sedgemoor. The author focuses on the confrontation between Monmouth and John Churchill, the future Duke of Marlborough, and provides a graphic reassessment of the campaign. He retraces the routes taken by the opposing armies across the West County, following every twist and...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 456 p. Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across Europe stalled in the western Balkans, where three great powers confronted one another in three adjoining provinces: Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia. Until about 1580, Bosnia was a platform for Ottoman expansion, and Croatia...
Walker and Company, 2007. — 414 p. From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one British regiment marched thousands of miles and fought a dozen battles to uphold British rule in America: the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Their story, and that of all the soldiers England sent across the Atlantic, is one of the few untold sagas of the American Revolution, and it sheds a new...
Faber and Faber, 2004. — 320 p. As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 288 p. After 1500, European warfare was repeatedly revolutionized by new weapons, new methods for supplying armies in the field, improved fortifications and new tactics for taking fortifications. This allowed empires to grow, with, for example, the Ottomans expanding into the Middle East and Africa, Britain dominating India, and Russia conquering the...
Regnery History, 2012. — 528 p. The War of 1812 is typically noted for a handful of events: the burning of the White House, the rise of the Star Spangled Banner, and the battle of New Orleans. But in fact the greatest consequence of that distant conflict was the birth of the U.S. Navy. During the War of 1812, America’s tiny fleet took on the mightiest naval power on earth,...
Routledge, 2000. — 293 p. This work investigates the social, economic and political impact of the European colonial wars in Africa on both the victors and the vanquished. It examines the role of both the imperial powers and the African people who joined with or resisted them. Examining the experiences of Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Portugal and Italy, it offers a...
Septentrion, 2012. — 426 p. La chute de Québec en 1759 et la capitulation de Montréal l'année suivante sonnèrent le glas de la Nouvelle-France et d'un long conflit. C'est en Amérique du Nord que la guerre de Sept Ans a commencé et qu'elle a provoqué les bouleversements décisifs entérinés par le traité de Paris de 1763, portant un coup fatal au premier empire colonial français....
Longman, 2004. — 329 p. A Military History of the English Civil War 1642-1646 examines how the civil war was won, who fought for whom, and why it ended. With a straightforward style and clear chronology that enables readers to make their own judgements and pursue their own interests further, this original history provides a thorough critique of the reasons that have been cited...
Routledge, 2000. — 321 p. I think this is an under used, perhaps even unknown book on the war of the Revolution and its impact on American society. Thesis and conclusions are much clearer than a lot of Don Higginbotham's work. IT IS NOT ONLY AN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLES AND LEADERS OF THE WAR! Its more social history, done well. It is in the "new" military history genre, and is...
New York: Routledge, 2001. — 246 p. — (Warfare and History). Combining original research with the latest scholarship Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792 - 1914 examines war and its aftermath from Napoleonic times to the outbreak of the First World War. Throughout, this fine book treats warfare as a social and political phenomenon no less than a military and technologial one,...
New Page Books, 2001. — 320 p. Rather than celebrating warfare, 50 Battles That Changed The World looks at the clashes the author believes have had the most profound impact on world history. Listed in order of their relevance to the modern world, they range from the ancient past to the present day and span the globe many times over. This book is not so much about military...
Basic Books, 2009. — 380 p. — ISBN: 978-0-465-01374-6. Introduction: The Terror in the East. A Call to Arms. Turks and Tartars. A Plague on the Land. Taking the Road to War. The Adversaries. " Rise Up,Rise Up, Ye Christians ". The Pit of Hell. "A Flood of Back Pitch". A Holy War? Storming Buda. The Age of Heroes. Myth Displacing History.
London: Brassey's, 1994. - 273 pgs. This book tells the story of the birth of the modern British Army and its growth from a small force of Foot and Horse Guards, to a standing army of over three dozen famous regiments, including those who fought in the Seven Years War (1756-63) in North America, and later during the American War of Independence. Placing the army in its...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 316 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History). This book examines the role of war and the development of the smaller German territories in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through the example of the duchy of Wurttemberg. It reappraises traditional interpretations of German military history that emphasize the role of Prussia and...
Warszawa: Interpress, 1983. — 254 p. Książka ta nie jest hymnem pochwalnym na cześć bohaterstwa wojsk polskich lecz rzetelnym, obiektywnym spojrzeniem na konflikt i znaczenie polskiego wkładu w wiktorię wiedeńską. Książka składa się 14 rozdziałów, które ukazują szczegółowo arenę wielkiego konfliktu między Turcją a siłami sprzymierzonych, wspierających zaatakowaną w 1683 roku...
Texas A&M University Press, 2000. — 288 p. Drawing on numerous diaries, journals, and reminiscences, Richard Bruce Winders presents the daily life of soldiers at war; links the army to the society that produced it; shares his impressions of the soldiers he “met” along the way; and concludes that American participants in the Mexican War shared a common experiemce, no matter...
Helion and Company, 2024. — 126 p. — (From Retinue to Regiment 1453-1618 #27). In 1499 a ferocious war was waged between the Swiss States and the Holy Roman Empire. It was a costly conflict with an estimated two hundred villages destroyed and over twenty thousand troops killed, as well as uncounted thousands of non-combatants. The Swiss had developed one of the first truly...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 272 p. — (War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850). This book examines the partnerships between Britain's famed redcoats and the foreign corps that were a consistent and valuable part of Britain's military endeavors in the eighteenth century. While most histories have portrayed these associations as fraught with discord, a study of eyewitness accounts...
Bellona, 1987. — 165 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Kircholm (27 September 1605, or 17 September in the Old Style) was one of the major battles in the Polish–Swedish War. The battle was decided in 20 minutes by the devastating charge of Polish–Lithuanian cavalry, the Winged Hussars. The battle ended in the decisive victory of the Polish–Lithuanian forces, and is...
Bellona, 1990. — 183 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Battle of Podhajce took place on 8–9 September 1698 near Podhajce in Ruthenian Voivodship during the Great Turkish War. 6000-strong Polish army under Field Crown Hetman Feliks Kazimierz Potocki repelled a 14,000 man Tatar expedition under Qaplan I Giray. Lack of sufficient number of light cavalry on the Polish side prevented a...
Bellona, 2000. — 277 p. The Battle of Naseby was a decisive engagement of the First English Civil War, fought on 14 June 1645 between the main Royalist army of King Charles I and the Parliamentarian New Model Army, commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. It was fought near the village of Naseby in Northamptonshire. After the Royalists stormed the Parliamentarian...
Algonquin Books, 1990. — 315 p. The Americans did not simply outlast the British in the Revolutionary War, contends this author in a groundbreaking study, but won their independence by employing superior strategies, tactics, and leadership. Designed for the "armchair strategist" with dozens of detailed maps and illustrations, here is a blow-by-blow analysis of the men,...
Leiden: Brill, 2004. — 330 p. — (History of Warfare). Between 1618 and 1648, a number of Scottish expatriates appeared at the major centres of Habsburg dynastic power: Madrid, Brussels, and the peripatetic court of the Holy Roman Emperor. In dealing with their military activities, this book challenges the notion that France or the northern Low Countries invariably provided the...
Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2005. — 244 p. A look at how the "island-hopping" campaign in the Pacific was a crucial factor in the eventual defeat of Japan in 1945. Employing archive color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and first-hand accounts, this history relates the pivotal battles that were part of the American "island-hopping campaign" to the wider struggle against the...
The History Press, 2011. — 160 p. On 22 January 1879 a 20,000-strong Zulu army attacked 1,700 British and colonial forces. The engagement saw primitive weapons of spears and shields clashing with the latest military technology. However, despite being poorly equipped, the numerically superior Zulu force crushed the British troops, killing 1,300 men, whilst only losing 1,000 of...
The History Press, 2013. — 160 p. A legendary victory of Afghan forces over the British Army The battle of Maiwand was one of the most serious defeats of the British Army during the Great Game and one of the only times during the 19th century that an Asian force defeated a Western power. The battle commenced on July 27, 1880, as Afghan forces moved towards the Maiwand Pass in...
Cambridge University Press, 1984. — 231 p. Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660 is a comparative historical study of revolution in the greatest royal states of Western Europe during the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. Revolution as a general problem and the causes and character of revolution in early modern Europe have been among the most widely discussed and...
Bellona, 2004. — 199 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Great Siege of Malta took place in 1565 when the Ottoman Empire tried to invade the island of Malta, then held by the Knights Hospitaller. The Knights, with approximately 2,000 foot soldiers and 400 Maltese men, women and children, withstood the siege and repelled the invaders. This victory became one of the most celebrated...
Amsterdam University Press, 2013. — 690 p. Introduction Understanding changes in military recruitment and employment worldwide Erik-Jan Zurcher. Military labor in China, c. 1500 David M. Robinson. From the mamluks to the mansabdars: A social history of military service in South Asia, c. 1500 to c. 1650 Kaushik Roy. On the Ottoman janissaries (fourteenth-nineteenth centuries)...
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