Almena Liberia Editorial, 2009. — 105 p. — (Guerreros y batallas - 57) La guerra entre Isabel la Católica y Juana la Beltraneja supuso el enfrentamiento entre la nobleza y el rey, en un intento de la primera por evitar la pérdida de sus privilegios, pero ante todo fue un enfrentamiento entre Portugal y Castilla con una acusada guerra en los límites fronterizos, y con la...
Almena Liberia Editorial, 2018. — 91 p. Puede haber pocas dudas de que, aunque ya llevaba una larga carrera militar a sus espaldas, Fernando Álvarez de Toledo es principalmente conocido a nivel europeo por su periodo de mando en los Países Bajos. Enviado allí inicialmente para poco tiempo, debió pasar seis años desempeñando una labor política para la que no estaba preparado;...
Dundurn Group, 2000. — 193 p. In early 1812, as the British and the Americans were on the brink of war in North America, Fort St. Joseph was not thought to be of much importance to the British cause. It was disregarded as a useless, poorly located post. But when war was delcared, the garrison at Fort St. Joseph pulled off a miracle: it captured the American Fort Mackinac, and...
Foundry, 2010. — 200 p. Covering those Asian armies which fought alongside the British, from the foundations laid in 1497 to the demise of company rule. This book traces the developments in the structure, armament, and uniforms of the armies maintained by the imperial powers in Asia throughout the colonial period, with illustrative order of battle material wherever possible....
Foundry Books, 2006. — 224 p. In the second half of the 19th century, European-led columns began to fan out across the African continent from their coastal footholds, smashing whatever forces could be brought against them, no matter how brave or determined the latter were. The process began at different dates in different parts of the continent, but much of the main activity...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. — 297 p. If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, the foremost military theorist in France from 1770 to his death in 1790. Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the Enlightenment to the passions of the French...
Helion and Company, 2023. — 338 p. — ( Century of the Soldier 1618-1721). This book explores the concept, raising, equipping, composition, organization, and operational role of dragoons during the British Civil Wars. It also provides information about known dragoon units and their activities, across a relatively broad geographical and chronological range, and challenges...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 396 p. — ( Century of the Soldier 1618-1721). While some military historians of the English Civil Wars continue to focus on the national conflict and major campaigns, and assert that the considerations of counties and regions was little more than a disconnected series of petty local struggles, several new interpretations about the nature and...
Helion and Company. 2021 — 330 p. Austria was one of the five major players of the Napoleonic Wars. In early 19th century, the Austrian army (Kaiserliche-Königliche Heer) was the third largest and one of the best-trained armies in the world.The individual regiments performed well and were considered solid. However, hampered by the inherent conservatism of the hierarchy, the...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 330 p. Austria was one of the five major players of the Napoleonic Wars. In early 19th century, the Austrian army (Kaiserliche-Königliche Heer) was the third largest and one of the best-trained armies in the world.The individual regiments performed well and were considered solid. However, hampered by the inherent conservatism of the hierarchy, the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2006. — 346 p. In 1657 King Charles X Gustaf of Sweden sent Claes Rålamb as an envoy to Sultan Mehmed IV's court. While he was there Rålamb commissioned 20 large paintings in oil on canvas, depicting an imperial procession through Istanbul in September 1657, providing a revealing insight into the court of Sultan Mehmed IV in Ottoman Turkey. For the first...
Viking, 2018. — 480 p. A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain’s Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France—an overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution. For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and...
Sønderborg Slot and Tøjhusmuseet, 2013. — 48 p. An excellent overview of the war of 1864 including its consequences. Very short read that gives the key facts and essence of the conflict. The Second Schleswig War also sometimes known as the Dano-Prussian War or Prusso-Danish War was the second military conflict over the Schleswig-Holstein Question of the nineteenth century. The...
Ashgate Publishing, 2014. — 259 p. When Finland gained its independence from Russia in 1917, the country had not had a military for almost two decades. The ensuing creation of a new national conscript army aroused intense but conflicting emotions among the Finns. This book examines how a modern conscript army, born out of a civil war, had to struggle through social, cultural...
De Gruyter, 2020. — 520 p. This book examines documents from the Anglo-Mysore wars between the British colonial power and the South Indian regional power Mysore between 1766 and 1799. It transcribes and makes available for the first time the rich German documentation of a war that was as destructive as the Thirty Years War in Germany.
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2021. — 372 p. — (Modern Wars In Perspective). Originally conceived as a military history, this second edition completes the story of the Middle Eastern populations that underwent significant transformation in the nineteenth century, finally imploding in communal violence, paramilitary activity, and genocide after the Berlin Treaty of 1878. Now...
Second Edition. — Routledge, 2021. — 372 p. Originally conceived as a military history, this second edition completes the story of the Middle Eastern populations that underwent significant transformation in the nineteenth century, finally imploding in communal violence, paramilitary activity, and genocide after the Berlin Treaty of 1878. Now called The Ottomans 1700-1923: An...
Editorial Crítica, 2011. — 553 p. La Guerra de Sucesión de España (1700-1714) fue el más importante de los conflictos armados de su tiempo. La Guerra de Sucesión de España fue «una guerra tan universal como no se ha visto nunca», en palabras del Almirante de Castilla, que se extendió por el conjunto de Europa y por América. Pero donde su trascendencia fue mayor fue precisamente...
Desperta Ferro, 1999. — 432 p. Si, siguiendo a Clausewitz, la guerra es la continuación de la política por otros medios, habría que considerar a los tercios como un instrumento esencial de la política de los Austrias. Macedonia tuvo sus falanges. Roma, sus legiones. Y España, sus tercios. Siempre mal pagados, siempre blasfemando bajo los coletos atravesados por una cruz roja,...
Desperta Ferro Ediciones, 2020. ― 144 p. ― (Cuadernos de Historia Militar 02). Tras las grandes campañas de los tercios en los siglos XVI y XVII se esconden las historias vitales de los miles de soldados cuyo sacrificio hizo posible la hegemonía europea de los Austrias españoles. El segundo libro de la colección Cuadernos de Historia Militar aproxima al lector a la vertiente...
Krakow: Nacladem Centralnego biura widawnictw NKN w Krakowe, 1916. — 68 s., ill. "Альбом легионов Польских" - книга раритетных фотографий из жизни сформированных в Австро-Венгрии "Польских легионов", принимавших активное участие в боях против России в период Первой мировой войны 1914-1918 гг. Представлены как постановочные и боевые сцены, так и снимки походного быта польских...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 246 p. This collection of essays reviews the politico-military relationship between Britain and France between the two World Wars. As well as examining the relationship between the two nations' armed services, the book's contributors also analyze key themes in Anglo-French inter-war defense politics - disarmament, intelligence and imperial defense -...
University Printing, 1900. — 254 p. The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore against the British East India Company and the Hyderabad Deccan in 1798–1799. This was the final conflict of the four Anglo-Mysore Wars. The British captured the capital of Mysore. The ruler Tipu Sultan was killed in the battle. Britain took indirect...
Dundurn, 2015. — 336 p. A provocative account of the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders and its crucial place in history. The remarkable story of the men of the 78th Fraser’s Highlanders moves from the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion in Scotland, through the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution, to the War of 1812. Simon Fraser, chief of the Clan Fraser of Lovat, raised the 78th...
Xlibris, 2016. — 730 p. Here, for the first time, author and former Parris Island drill-instructor Eugene Alvarez records the training and tough physical and mental challenges that have helped to churn thousands of Marines out of Parris Island, South Carolina for nearly a century. Drawn from first-hand accounts of recruits themselves, the memories and recollections in these...
Praeger, 2001. — 320 p. Following her defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain shifted her colonial focus to her Protectorate in northern Morocco. When Spanish conscripts began to fight and to die by the thousands, political fallout forced the government to create a new unit of professional soldiers. This unit would serve the dual function of providing fighting men for...
O. Petters Verlag, 1887. — 142 p. In the Battle of Prague or Battle of Štěrboholy, fought on 6 May 1757 during the Third Silesian War (Seven Years' War), Frederick the Great's 67,000 Prussians forced 60,000 Austrians to retreat, but having lost 14,300 men, decided he was not strong enough to attack Prague. On the 6th of May, around 5 am, the Prussian army assembled to the north...
Penguin Publishing, 2006. — 300 p. The French and Indian War - the North American phase of a far larger conflagration, the Seven Years' War-remains one of the most important, and yet misunderstood, episodes in American history. Fred Anderson takes readers on a remarkable journey through the vast conflict that, between 1755 and 1763, destroyed the French Empire in North America,...
Routledge, 1995. — 260 p. Set in motion by the disputed succession of Maria Theresa and her husband to the lands and dignities of Emperor Charles VI, this series of major conflicts (1740-48) involved far more than just the fate of the Habsurgs: soon, Austria, Prussia, France, Britain, Spain, Bavaria, Saxony and the Netherlands were embroiled in their different but interlocking...
Routledge, 1995. — 260 p. Set in motion by the disputed succession of Maria Theresa and her husband to the lands and dignities of Emperor Charles VI, this series of major conflicts (1740-1748) involved far more than just the fate of the Habsburgs: soon, Austria, Prussia, France, Britain, Spain, Bavaria, Saxony and the Netherlands were embroiled in their different but...
Alan Sutton Publishing, 1998. — 239 p. — (War and European Society). Drawing on a wide range of materials from throughout Europe, Professor Anderson here discusses and analyses the rapidly changing impact of armed forces and their demands on society during the pre-revolutionary period. War and Armed Forces in the Early Seventeenth Century. Old-regime Warfare at its Height,...
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...
Sigma, 2002. — 458 p. Lucrarea de fata, a doua in colectia Traditii militare este consacrata participarii armatei romane la Razboiul de Independenta din 1877-1878. Acest razboi a reprezentat primul conflict major in care a fost implicata ostirea noastra, dupa reorganizarea armatei pe baze moderne petrecuta in 1830. Fiind constienti de importanta sa, atat pentru istoria...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 351 p. The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839-1842. What happened? In The Gunpowder...
University of North Carolina Press, 2001. — 180 p. Military training was a prominent feature of higher education across the nineteenth-century South. Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel, as well as land-grant schools such as Texas, Auburn, and Clemson, organized themselves on a military basis, requiring their male students to wear uniforms, join a corps of cadets, and...
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 - ponents...
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....
Accademia Wargame, 2019. — 96 p. Généralissime Raimondo Montecuccoli (1609-1680) fu uno dei protagonisti della cosidetta Rivoluzione militare. Capitano al servizio degli Asburgo, aveva maturato una singolarissima esperienza di guerra, coniugando nella sua persona sia la conoscenza delle innovazioni militari occidentali maturate con la Guerra dei Trent'anni, e sia una profonda e...
London, John Newton, 1689. — 192 p. Интересное и неплохое (для того времени) описание неизвестного (анонимного) автора (на английском языке) боевых действий венецианской армии и флота на начальном (по 1688 год) этапе Морейской Войны (1684-1699) против Османской империи. Достаточно подробно рассмотрены успешные десантные операции венецианцев под командованием генерал-капитана...
Helion and Company. 2022 — 125 p. In 1526, the army of the Hungarian kingdom was soundly defeated by the army of the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, in the battle of Mohács. In the following decades the lands that were once part of the Hungarian Crown were divided. On the eastern half of the former Hungarian kingdom a new state was born, the Principality of...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 125 p. In 1526, the army of the Hungarian kingdom was soundly defeated by the army of the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, in the battle of Mohács. In the following decades the lands that were once part of the Hungarian Crown were divided. On the eastern half of the former Hungarian kingdom a new state was born, the Principality of...
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, organised 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...
Barakaldo Books, 2020. — 115 p. A richly detailed and exhaustively researched account of the 1702 siege of the Spanish fortress of St. Augustine by British and local military forces. “In 1670 a new English colony had come into existence on the North American continent. Its first colonists came from England and Barbados and called their new home Carolina. They established their...
Bloomsbury Press, 2011. — 316 p. As the global war on terror enters its second decade, the United States military is engaged with militant Islamic insurgents on multiple fronts. But the post-9/11 war against terrorists is not the first time the United States has battled such ferocious foes. The forgotten Moro War, lasting from 1902 to 1913 in the islands of the southern...
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, it...
Henry Holt, 2019. — 782 p. From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution. Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he...
Casemate Publishers, 2008. — 224 p. The book describes the role of Frederick Roberts in the 2nd Afghan War, culminating in his famous march in 1880 with 10,000 picked British and Indian soldiers, 300 miles in twenty-three days, from Kabul to Kandahar, to defeat the Afghan army of Ayub Khan, pretender to the Amirship of Kabul. The march made Roberts one of late Victorian...
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 Waldeck,...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 272 p. The Kingdom of Serbia waged war against Austria-Hungary and the other Central Powers from 28 July 1914 when the Austro-Hungarian government declared war, until the capitulation of Austria-Hungary. In the first two years of the war, Serbia defeated the Austro-Hungarian Balkan Army. The following year, her army was faced with the Axis invasion....
Helion and Company, 2016. — 272 p. The Kingdom of Serbia waged war against Austria-Hungary and the other Central Powers from 28 July 1914 when the Austro-Hungarian government declared war, until the capitulation of Austria-Hungary. In the first two years of the war, Serbia defeated the Austro-Hungarian Balkan Army. The following year, her army was faced with the Axis invasion....
Kraków : Towarzystwo Wydawnicze "Historia Iagellonica", 2017. — 177 s. — (Społeczeństwo i Gospodarka Galicji. Studia i Materiały, T. 4). — ISBN 9788365080615. Wykaz skrótów. Wstęp. Organizacja administracji wojskowej w Galicji. Pobór i werbunek do armii . Okres 1772–1815. Pobór. Werbunek ochotników. Okres 1815–1848. Okres 1848–1867. Dyslokacja oddziałów austriackich w Galicji ....
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 272 p. T. E. Lawrence’s dispatches during the Arab Revolt have been published before, but only in an edited and incomplete form, as they were printed for a strictly limited wartime readership in the Arab Bulletin. Now, in this scholarly edition, they are published in full for the first time. They give us a direct inside view of his dealings with...
Casemate, 2015. — 208 p. The Duke of Wellington described the Battle of Waterloo as “the most desperate business I ever was in, I was never so near being beat.” The courage of British troops that day has been rightly praised ever since, but the fact that one-third of the forces which gave him his narrow victory were subjects, not of George III but of the King of the Netherlands...
Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 2012. — 438 p. Wojny Rzeczypospolitej ze Szwecją w XVII w. stanowią jedno z najważniejszych zagadnień w nowożytnej historii Europy. Szczególnie doniosłe znaczenie miała w tym konflikcie pierwsza faza, która przypadła na lata 1600-1629. Właśnie wtedy dokonała się przemiana, niosąca poważne skutki dla całego regionu. Szwecja, będąca do tej pory...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. — 380 p. A lucid and masterly biography of the Mediterranean during a time of war, from Mussolini’s audacious bid for conquest to the creation of Israel and the start of the Cold War. The Bitter Sea is a fascinating interpretation of world affairs and a significant contribution to twentieth century history. With incisive strategic and political...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 234 p. When Charles Edward Stuart launched the last, and perhaps most famous, of the Jacobite Risings in the late summer of 1745, the British Army found itself ill-placed to respond. Its most effective troops were on the continent; regular units at home were weak, inexperienced or both; the Militia system was moribund and politically suspect. When...
Helion Company, 2018. — 128 p. The Jacobite Rising of 1745 could not have taken place without French support. French ships carried Charles Edward Stuart to Scotland, French gold financed his campaign, and French weapons equipped many of his troops. Yet the actual French military contribution to the campaign was small, and its role is frequently neglected. This book seeks to...
The History Press, 2016. — 224 p. Through the night of 22/23 January 1879, a small garrison of British soldiers behind a makeshift barricade of bags and boxes successfully defended the storehouse and field hospital at Rorke's Drift, against an army of Zulu warriors who outnumbered them by about twenty to one. This heroic stand became on of the most famous actions in the history...
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.
Warszawa: MON, 1957. — 283 s. Siły Zbrojne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej – siły i środki wydzielone przez Polskę do zabezpieczenia jej interesów i prowadzenia walki. Siły zbrojne są podstawowym elementem systemu obronnego państwa, przeznaczonym do skutecznej realizacji polityki bezpieczeństwa i obronnej. Zgodnie z obowiązującą Strategią Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego Rzeczypospolitej...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. — 342 p. Popular memory of the War of 1812 caroms from the beleaguered Fort McHenry to the burning White House to an embattled New Orleans. But the critical action was elsewhere, as Richard V. Barbuto tells us in this clarifying work that puts the state of New York squarely at the center of America’s first foreign war. British demands to move...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. — 342 p. Popular memory of the War of 1812 caroms from the beleaguered Fort McHenry to the burning White House to an embattled New Orleans. But the critical action was elsewhere, as Richard V. Barbuto tells us in this clarifying work that puts the state of New York squarely at the center of America’s first foreign war. British demands to move...
Onufri, 2012. — 302 p. The Siege of Shkodra is a book written by a Shkodran priest, Marin Barleti (also known as Marinus Barletius), about the Ottoman siege of Shkodra in 1478, led personally by Mehmed II, and about the joint resistance of the Albanians and the Venetians. The book also discusses the Ottoman siege of Shkodra in 1474. The book was originally published in 1504, in...
Routledge, 2010. — 440 p. An often overshadowed event in American military history, the Spanish-American War began as a humanitarian effort on the part of the United States to provide military assistance for the liberation of Cuba from Spanish domination. At the time, no one knew that this simple premise would result in an American empire. Through extensive research, Mark...
Routledge, 2014. — 438 p. An often overshadowed event in American military history, the Spanish-American War began as a humanitarian effort on the part of the United States to provide military assistance for the liberation of Cuba from Spanish domination. At the time, no one knew that this simple premise would result in an American empire. Through extensive research, Mark...
Endeavour Press, 2013. — 288 p. This book is a very important part of understanding a little understood and under publicized but extremely important era. Marlborough is a fascinating historical personality. He was a great general, an important diplomat and like Washington, an indispensable man. Undefeated in battle, successful in every siege, and a master of surprising maneuver...
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 analyse the opposing forces, their strategy, tactics and conduct of the war and the reasons for its eventual outcome.
Helion and Company, 2016. — 139 p. Cromwell’s alliance with France in 1657 opened for the English Republic and Charles II’s army in exile a new theatre of war in Flanders - in addition to England’s ongoing war with Spain. It resulted in the old opponents of the Civil Wars in Britain meeting in combat once again. This book tells the story of the two armies: Charles II’s polyglot...
Pen and Sword Books, 2004. — 224 p. Previous studies of the Royalist high command have concentrated largely upon a handful of notable individuals such as King Charles himself and Prince Rupert. In this ground-breaking study, John Barratt re-examines these key figures, but he also explores the careers and characters of some of the lesser-known, but equally able Royalist...
The History Press, 2004. — 367 p. This major examination of the Royalist armies and their role in the war describes and analyzes the organization, recruitment, training, arms, equipment, tactics and performance of the Royalist armies and compares them to their parliamentarian, or "Roundhead" counterparts. There is coverage of some of the more notable and colourful figures among...
Pen & Sword Military, 2009. — 224 p. Sieges determined the course of the English Civil Wars, yet they receive scant attention. In contrast, the major set-piece battles are repeatedly analysed and reassessed. As a result our understanding of the conflict, and of its outcome, is incomplete. John Barratt, in this lucid and perceptive account, makes the siege the focal point of his...
Casemate Publishers, 2009. — 224 p. Sieges determined the course of the English Civil Wars, yet they receive scant attention. In contrast, the major set-piece battles are repeatedly analysed and reassessed. As a result our understanding of the conflict, and of its outcome, is incomplete. John Barratt, in this lucid and perceptive account, makes the siege the focal point of his...
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 was...
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, sieges,...
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 seemingly...
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...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 99 p. This book deals with a series of military operations that occurred in Portugal in 1762 and 1763, during the Seven Years’ War, and which have been largely dismissed by the historiography. They are collectively called the Guerra Fantástica ,’Fantastical War’, given the fact that the military units of the countries involved carried out multiple...
Helion and Company, 2010. — 536 p. Before the War of 1866 the name of Helmuth Von Moltke was scarcely known outside the Prussian army. His appointment as Chief of the General Staff was in many ways surprising, and he certainly did not himself expect it. He was thus put at the head of a military institution that was already to some extent superior to its counterparts elsewhere;...
Helion and Company, 2012. — 576 p. When Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire in April 1877, it was the fifth time during the nineteenth century that hostilities had broken out between the two empires. On this occasion the other Great Powers had done all they could to prevent it, although public opinion in the West had been shocked by Turkey's brutal repression of the...
Blandford Press, 1987. — 176 p. Hardcover book with dust jacket, not depicted, is an history of the all Boer Wars in South Africa. Many illustrations. Обзорная книга английского историка описывает почти вековое противостояние бурских государств (на юге Африки) и могущественной Британской Империи (с 1815 по 1902). Основное внимание автор уделяет событиям и сражениям масштабной и...
Cassell Military, 2002. — 190 p. Beautifully illustrated from the work of pioneer war photographers, this is a marvellously readable account of the British Empire at war. From the British invasion of Egypt to the tragedy of Gordon of Khartoum, it culminates in General Kitchener's march to Omdurman that saw Winston Churchill participate in one of the last battlefield charges by...
The History Press, 2010. — 224 p. The Zulu War grabs attention in a way that no other of Queen Victoria's "Little Wars" does. It is a story rich in the extremes of human experience: gallantry, cowardice, savagery, hubris, and sheer, stark terror amongst others. The way the campaign unfolded was a consequence of the actions of Britain's commander in the field, Lord Chelmsford,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 275 p. — ISBN: 3030631802. This book investigates the representation of the Axis War – the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 – in three decades of Italian literature. Building on an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology, which combines memory studies,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 275 p. — ISBN: 3030631802. This book investigates the representation of the Axis War – the wars of aggression that Fascist Italy fought in North Africa, Greece, the Soviet Union, and the Balkans, from 1940 to 1943 – in three decades of Italian literature. Building on an innovative and interdisciplinary methodology, which combines memory studies,...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 615 p. Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett’s For God and Kaiser is a major account of the Habsburg army told for the first time in English. Bassett shows how the Imperial Austrian Army, time and again, was a decisive factor in the story of Europe, the balance of international...
Ohio University Press, 2014. — 345 p. Protecting the Empire’s Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776. The Royal Irish was one of the most wide-ranging regiments in America, with companies serving on the Illinois frontier,...
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 the...
Sonnenschein, 1899. — 387 p. The Peasants War in Germany (1525-1526) was the largest popular uprising in European history (besides the French Revolution). Yet most modern history books devote a page or two at most. This is perhaps not surprising since the Peasants War is surrounded by racist and socialist scholarship - Friedrich Engels famously wrote about it in 1850 from a...
Routledge, 2016. — 388 p. General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same man would later provoke a war and conquer Sind. In this...
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,...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 486 p. This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front and throughout the rest of the world as well as the army's social history, pre-war and wartime planning and strategy, the maintenance of...
Routledge, 2016. — 239 р. — (Warfare, Society and Culture). The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during the Victorian period.
Pen and Sword Books, 2019. — 192 p. How much influence did notable wives have on the leading commanders in British military history? These women tend to be disregarded but, as Trina Beckett demonstrates in this revealing and thought-provoking study, their influence has often been profound. Taking examples from the eighteenth century to the Second World War, she uncovers a...
United States Naval Institute, 1913. — 125 p. The Italo-Turkish or Turco-Italian War was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire from September 29, 1911, to October 18, 1912. As a result of this conflict, Italy captured the Ottoman Tripolitania Vilayet, of which the main sub-provinces were Fezzan, Cyrenaica, and Tripoli itself. These territories became the...
Auckland University Press, 2015. — 400 p. Although there have been recent works on the origins and consequences of the 19th-century New Zealand Wars, this is the first thorough reexamination of their course in over sixty years. According to the author, "The degree of Maori success in all four major wars is still underestimated--even to the point where, in the case of one war,...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. — 420 p. The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons, and sailing ships—in the age of Napoleon. In a sweeping, evocative narrative, Bell takes us from campaigns of "extermination" in...
John Murray Publishers, 2011. — 477 p. Gurkhas- Special Force by Chris Bellamy states that the Gurkhas have fought on behalf of Britain and India for nearly two hundred years. As brave as they are resilient, resourceful and cunning, they have earned a reputation as devastating fighters, and their unswerving loyalty to the Crown has always inspired affection in the British...
John Murray Publishers, 2011. — 477 p. Gurkhas- Special Force by Chris Bellamy states that the Gurkhas have fought on behalf of Britain and India for nearly two hundred years. As brave as they are resilient, resourceful and cunning, they have earned a reputation as devastating fighters, and their unswerving loyalty to the Crown has always inspired affection in the British...
Stephen Swift and Company, 1911. — 122 p. The Battle of Malplaquet was fought near the border of France on 11 September 1709 and was a major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession. It pitted a french army, commanded by Marshal Villars and Marshal Boufflers, against an allied army, led by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy. After a string of defeats,...
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. — 74 p. 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. Louis XIV of France sought to knock the "Holy Roman" Emperor, Leopold...
La Esfera de los Libros, 2018. — 756 p. El estallido de la Guerra de los Treinta Años en 1618 significó el primer conflicto armado de dimensiones europeas, e incluso globales, en el que las grandes potencias se disputaron la hegemonía política y económica del continente. Cristina Borreguero nos acerca en una magistral obra, llamada a convertirse en la referencia sobre el tema,...
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 history....
Methuen, 1912. — 360 p. The Italo-Turkish War (Turkish: "Tripolitanian War") was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire from September 29, 1911, to October 18, 1912. As a result of this conflict, Italy captured the Ottoman Tripolitania Vilayet, of which the main sub-provinces were Fezzan, Cyrenaica, and Tripoli itself. These territories became the colonies...
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...
Aeronaut Books, 2023. — 320 p. November 1918: Defeated and facing internal leftist uprisings and encroachments on its eastern borders, Germany quickly rebuilt its broken army with volunteers and paramilitary units, known as Freikorps. Among them were over sixty tactical aviation units, equipped with the latest aircraft, flown by veteran WWI aircrews. Rarely mentioned in...
Helion and Company, 2023. — 266 p. — (From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 №31) Magersfontein is an iconic battle, fought during the South African War of 1899–1902, also known as the Second Anglo-Boer War. Over 30 years of research informs this book, the first source referenced history about Magersfontein and the other actions, fought in the lead up to this monumental clash. It...
Ravette, 2010. — 80 p. — (Their Finest Hour). 'The most beautiful aircraft ever designed' is how many remember the Spitfire today. Together with the more numerous and legendary Hurricane, it was used by just a few hundred pilots to halt the advance of the German war machine in 1940. Just why was the Messerschmitt 109 better than the Hurricane? Why did the Hurricane shoot down...
Irish Academic Press, 2018. — 432 p. Despite a propensity toward fierce criticism of his generals, with great regard the Duke of Wellington referred to William Carr Beresford as 'the ablest man I have yet seen in the army'. Marshal William Carr Beresford is the story of a celebrated and distinguished Irishman, honoured and decorated by the governments of Great Britain, Portugal...
University Press of the Pacific, 2002. — 108 p. This book is an outgrowth of questions raised in the fall of 1980 and spring of 1981 about the conduct of air operations in the war between Iran and Iraq. Unlike previous Middle Eastern wars, this one had continued over a protracted period while we in the United States and in the U.S. Air Force had been able to observe it only...
James Currey, 2018. — 312 p. Today best known for their role in defending Ethiopia from Italian invasion 1935-1941, when more than 7,000 fought against colonial forces, chewa warriors protected Ethiopia for centuries. Yet, depicted by some 19th-century Western observers as little more than "a horde" of warmongers, and later suppressed by Ethiopian monarchs who sought to create...
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 they...
Chicago: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014. — 280 p This documentary history is intended for specialist and non-specialist alike. The introductions to the book's sections, together with introductions to each document, provide a general history of the war. The contents cover the pre-war, war, and post-war periods in Cuba, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Spain, the...
Princeton University Press, 1988. — 400 p. — (Princeton Legacy Library 5444). Jean-Paul Bertaud is the leading French authority on the army of the French Revolution, and La Révolution armée is the authoritative treatment of the first great national, patriotic, revolutionary, and mass army, engaged in what has been called the first total war: that between revolutionary France...
Anchor Canada, 2001. — 496 p. The Canada–U.S. border was in flames as the War of 1812 continued. York's parliament buildings were on fire, Niagara-on-the-Lake burned to the ground and Buffalo lay in ashes. Even the American capital of Washington, far to the south, was put to the torch. The War of 1812 had become one of the nineteenth century's bloodiest struggles. Flames Across...
Anchor Canada, 2001. — 368 p. To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed to be "a mere matter of marching," as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted. How could a nation of 8 million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet, when the campaign of 1812 ended, the only Americans left on Canadian soil were prisoners of war. Three American armies had been...
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 circulated...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 248 p. It is now two centuries since a newspaper conceived the idea of sending a reporter overseas to observe, gather information and write about war. With no experience to draw upon, both newspaper and correspondent gradually worked out a procedure that has evolved into today’s incredibly sophisticated and unrecognizable form. The first special...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 255 p. The Indian Mutiny struck at the very heart of the British Empire. If India was lost the whole edifice of British domination across its colonies was in jeopardy. Everything was at stake, Britain’s leading role in the word, its international commerce and the reputation of its armed forces. Across the globe Britain ruled only through the compliance...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 280 p. In 1688, a vast fleet of 463 ships, twice the size of the Spanish Armada, put to sea from Holland. On board was William of Orange with 40,000 soldiers – their objective, England. The Protestant William had been encouraged by a group of Church of England bishops to risk everything and oust the Catholic King James. He landed at Tor Bay in Devon and...
Routledge, 2020. — 147 p. Originally published in 1976, this book explores the relationship between European society and the military institutions it fostered from 1815–1918. In the period from the fall of Napoleonic imperialism to the outbreak of the First World War armies and navies grew in complexity, cost and size. The first half of this book investigates these institutions...
Upton-on-Severn: Square One Publications, 1995. — 226 p. Lieutenant-Colonel Silvanus 'Bertie' Bevan's memoirs of 27 years service in the Suffolk Regiment, including his childhood in Cyprus, active service on the Northwest Frontier, the 50th Indian Parachute Brigade in the Burma Campaign, guerilla war in Malaya, and final command of the regiment in the British Army of the Rhine...
Mittler, 1899. — 138 p. The siege of Candia (now Heraklion, Crete) was a military conflict in which Ottoman forces besieged the Venetian-ruled capital city of the Kingdom of Candia. Lasting from 1648 to 1669, or a total of 21 years, it is the second-longest siege in history after the siege of Ceuta. On 24 July 1669, a French land/sea expedition under Francois de Beaufort not...
P.A. Norstedt Forlag, 1885. — 320 p. Mitt syfte är icke att efter krigsvetenskaplig behandling af källorna framlägga den del af vår krigshistoria, som handlar om Sveriges krig mot Danmark 1675—1679. Liksom mitt föregående arbete »Finska kriget 1808 och 1809» är äfven detta afsedt för den stora allmänheten, till läsning för ung och gammal. Lyckas det mig att göra nu lefvande...
Macmillan Press, 1991. — 121 p. In this radical reassessment, Jeremy Black challenges many of the established assumptions about the so-called Military Revolution of 1560-1660. He argues that it is far from clear that a military revolution did occur during this period. Indeed there is more evidence to suggest that the description could be applied more accurately to the following...
Bloomsbury Continuum, 2012. — 256 p. Here is an original and up-to-date account of a key period of military history, one that not only links the two World Wars but also anticipates the more complex nature of conflict following the Cold War. Black links the two World Wars, between the overcoming of trench warfare in the campaigns of 1918 and the fall of France in 1940. This was...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 245 p. The seventeenth century has long been seen as a period of 'crisis' or transition from the pre-modern to the modern world. This book offers a chance to explore this crisis from the perspective of war and military institutions in a way that should appeal to those doing global history. By placing 17th century warfare in a global context, Black...
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 in...
The History Press, 2010. — 252 p. The '1745 Rebellion was the greatest challenge to the 18th century British state. This study examines the political and military context of the uprising and highlights the seriousness of the challenge posed by the Jacobites. The book makes a good case for how 1745 rebellion challenged the Hanoverian grip on power more seriously than often...
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 the...
Macmillan Education, 1999. — 293 p. War played a fundamental role in European history during the early modern period. This up-to-date collection covers this crucial period in military history and analyses the nature and impact of warfare on the political and social development of Europe. Problems in Focus provides an excellent student resource on the nature of European warfare...
Indiana University Press, 2011. — 470 p. Prize winning author Jeremy Black traces the competition for control of North America from the landing of Spanish troops under Hernán Cortés in modern Mexico in 1519 to 1871 when, with the Treaty of Washington and the withdrawal of most British garrisons, Britain accepted American mastery in North America. In this wide-ranging narrative,...
Società Italiana di Storia Militare. Nadir Media Roma, 2023. — 538 p. The supposed Military Revolution of the early modern period is the most important instance of a key concept in military history, that of military revolutions. This collection takes a critical look at the example and thereby asks broader questions about the nature of military revolutions and indeed about the...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 292 p. This cogent global history traces the evolution of land warfare since the start of the Crimean War. Jeremy Black argues that although it has always been critical to the outcome of conflicts worldwide, land warfare has become undervalued in comparison to air power in modern military thinking. In practice, land warfare was crucial...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 480 p. A global account of military strategy, which examines the practices, rather than the theories, of the most significant military figures of the past 400 years. Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation and...
Indiana University Press, 2017. — 320 p. Military strategy takes place as much on broad national and international stages as on battlefields. In a brilliant reimagining of the impetus and scope of eighteenth-century warfare, historian Jeremy Black takes us far and wide, from the battlefields and global maneuvers in North America and Europe to the military machinations and...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. — xii, 221 p. — ISBN 978-1-5381-6371-9. The wars between 1792 and 1815 saw the making of the modern world, with Britain and Russia the key powers to emerge triumphant from a long period of bitter conflict. In this innovative book, Jeremy Black focuses on the strategic contexts and strategies involved, explaining their significance both at the time...
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...
The History Press, 2021. — 416 p. The bitter and often bloody fight which accompanied the emergence of the United States of America as an independent force on the world stage has always been a subject of immense interest as well as of much debate and controversy. By reference to a wide range of source material, The War for American Independence conveys vividly the immediacy of...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 253 p. This interdisciplinary book provides an invaluable perspective on the causes of war, drawing on a thoughtful consideration of what war actually is—the key foundation for an analysis of its causes. Jeremy Black assesses the three main types of war—between cultures, within cultures, and civil—emphasizing the social and cultural...
Potomac Books, 2009. — 112 p. The books in the Essential Bibliographies series include an essay by a noted scholar on the important historiographical issues and a pertinent bibliography for a particular period or theme in military history. They serve as research tools for librarians, researchers, and readers with a professional interest and as a starting point for pursuing...
Routledge, 2003. — 282 p. Conflict is central to human history. It is often the cause, course and consequence of social, cultural and political change. Military history therefore has to be more than a technical analysis of armed conflict. War in the Modern World since 1815 addresses war as a cultural phenomenon, discusses its meaning in different societies and explores the...
Polity Press, 2009. — 252 p. This book provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the rich military history of the nineteenth century. It takes a fresh approach, making novel links with conflict and coercion, and moving away from teleological emphases. Naval developments and warfare are included, as are social and cultural dimensions of military activity. Leading military...
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...
Acumen Publishing, 2013. — 243 p. Beginning with the British conquest of Egypt, the subjugation of a leading non-Western state, the book goes on to examine the Spanish-American War of 1898, the Boer War and the Balkans conflicts leading to world war in 1914. A revisionist account of World War I is followed by a discussion of Western expansionism in the period to 1936. Chapters...
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 drill...
Good Press, 2021. — 224 p. All phases of life and incident relating to the building up and consolidation of our Empire, ought to be of supreme interest to those who regard themselves as Britain’s sons. Fortunately the arts of peace, and the respect for justice and individual right, have had much to do with the growth of the greatest empire in the world’s history. The British...
G. Stalling, 1932. — 478 p. Nach der Reform nahm die Preußische Armee zwischen 1813 und 1815 an den Befreiungskriegen teil und leistete einen entscheidenden Anteil zur Befreiung der deutschen Staaten von der französischen Fremdherrschaft. Während der Zeit vom Wiener Kongress bis zu den deutschen Einigungskriegen wurde die preußische Armee zum Instrument der Restauration und...
Leo Cooper, 1992. — 190 p. Had the camp been allowed to award one VC, the recipient of that honour would have been Arthur Lang, and that by universal acclamation. In September, 1857, an inexperienced young Engineer officer, was given what turned out to be a key role at the turning point of the Indian Mutiny. He had to decide whether the breaches at the Kashmere bastion were...
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...
Collins, 2002. — 208 p. ‘First-hand’ details of how life was like for British soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars. Created from first-hand written accounts and contemporary military manuals of the time, this remarkable text presents a fascinating insight into the nitty-gritty of everyday life for the British soldier in wartime leading up to the Battle of Waterloo. Photos of...
James Currey, 2003. — 190 р. The Asante-British War of 1900-1901 is known outside Ghana as the war of the 'Golden Stool'. In Ghana it is known as the Yaa Asantewaa War, after the Queen of Edweso who was its principal inspiration. But while her leadership has been acknowledged in the scholarly literature, up to now her precise role in the war has been unexamined. The eminent...
Military selection and race deterioration, by Vernon Lyman Kellogg; ed. by Harald Westergaard. — Clarendon Press, 1916. — 213 p. The Division of Economics and History of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is organized to promote a thorough and scientific investigation of the causes and results of war. In accordance with this purpose a conference of eminent...
Berghahn Books, 2018. — 446 p. Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 were among the most consequential of the early twentieth century. By pitting the states of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro against a diminished Ottoman Empire—and subsequently against one another—they anticipated many of the...
Arcadia Publishing, 2013. — 192 p. A gripping account of events before, during, and after this British defeat in New York's Mohawk Valley, and the man who led the Continental army to victory. During the critical Battle of Oriskany in August 1777, Continental forces led by General Nicholas Herkimer defeated the British army under St. Leger in the heart of New York's Mohawk...
Pike and Shot Society, 2011. — 102 p. As it is well known, there is not very much documentation on the organisation of the Spanish armies of the end of the 17th century. The principal reference is the "Historia Organica" of Count de Clonard, written and published around the 1850’s. It is a monumental work (sixteen volumes), based on scrupulous researches, that were conducted...
Eyre Methuen, 1972. — 350 p. A pioneering work in British military history, originally published in 1972, this book is both scholarly and entertaining. Although the book concentrates on a single institution, it illuminates a much wider area of social and intellectual change. For the Army the importance of the change was enormous: in 1854 there was neither a Staff College nor a...
Helion and Company, 2018. — 136 p. During 1779, armies under the command of American General George Washington and British General Sir William Clinton were locked in a strategic stalemate. The entry of the French into the war as American allies had shifted the strategic initiative and caused the British government to order Clinton to dispatch significant forces to the West...
New York University Press, 2012. — 320 p. The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a...
New York University Press, 2012. — 320 p. The way an army thinks about and understands warfare has a tremendous impact on its organization, training, and operations. The central ideas of that understanding form a nation's way of warfare that influences decisions on and off the battlefield. From the disasters of the War of 1812, Winfield Scott ensured that America adopted a...
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 coalesce...
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...
New York: HarperCollins 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 would decide the fate of the entire North American continent—not just between Great Britain and...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 345 p. Włodzimierz Borodziej and Maciej Górny set out to salvage the historical memory of the experience of war in the lands between Riga and Skopje, beginning with the two Balkan conflicts of 1912–1913 and ending with the death of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. The First World War in the East and South-East of Europe was fought by people from...
Routledge, 2019. — 262 p. This book shows how the Dutch accumulation of great wealth was closely linked to their involvement in warfare. By charting Dutch activity across the globe, it explores Dutch participation in the international arms trade, and in wars both at home and abroad. In doing so, it ponders the issue of how capitalism has often historically thrived best when its...
Campus Verlag, 2021. — 492 p. Zwischen 1650 und 1780 verstärkten sich zwei Grundsignaturen der europäischen Frühen Neuzeit: die Etablierung moderner Armeen sowie die intensivere Erfassung, Nutzung und Formung der Umwelt. Jan Philipp Bothe zeigt in seiner innovativen Studie am Beispiel der sich herausbildenden »Kriegswissenschaft«, wie diese beiden Prozesse miteinander...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 256 p. During the two World Wars that marked the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of non-European combatants fought in the ranks of various European armies. The majority of these soldiers were Muslims from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent. How are these combatants considered in existing historiography?...
Oxford University Press, 1991. — 304 p. The Red King's Rebellion, fought more than three hundred years ago between the Algonquian peoples and New England settlers, was in per-capita terms the bloodiest war in our nation's history. Before the conflict ended, over 9,000 people were dead (two-thirds of them Native Americans), and homelessness, starvation, and economic hardship...
Brill, 2021. — 367 p. — (Iran Studies 22). In From the Kur to the Aras George A. Bournoutian presents the first military history of the Russian advance into the South Caucasus in 1801 and the ensuing First Russo-Iran War (1804-1813) that was a crucial step in the Russian Empire’s eventual expansion into the Caucasus region. Using both Iranian and Russian primary sources, the...
Praeger, 2007. — 233 p. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Spain was a key player in the military conflagrations that created modern Europe. From the Napoleonic Wars, through the dress rehearsal for World War II that was the Spanish Civil War, to the grim struggle against terrorism today, the military history of modern Spain has both shaped and reflected larger forces beyond its...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 304 p. The myth of the eighteenth-century British "war machine" persists, perplexing those who search for the reasons why Britain lost the Revolutionary War. In this book, R. Arthur Bowler argues that although recent and traditional studies have pointed out many problems of the British forces in America, they have failed to appreciate a major...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 352 p. In this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands nominally under the control of the Habsburg Military Frontier in Croatia, who between the 1530s and the 1620s developed a community based on raiding the Ottoman hinterland,...
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 Africa,...
Naval Institute Press, 1993. — 269 p. The Spanish-American War of 1898 is often passed over by scholars and history buffs, but the approach of the centennial has generated a renewed interest in this conflict - its causes, consequences, and conduct - an area surprisingly lacking in study until now. This collection of essays by some of the nation's top naval and military...
Les Amis de Namur, 2011. — 482 p. Les quelque 454 entrées de ce dictionnaire biographique des ingénieurs « militaires » et assimilés qui ont travaillé dans les Pays-Bas espagnols et acces-soirement dans la principauté de Liège et en Franche-Comté constituent la partie documentaire de la thèse de doctorat que j’ai consacré en 1998 à cest echniciens jusqu’ici très peu connus....
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...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 256 p. The George Cross, the highest civilian decoration, is awarded for acts of the greatest heroism or of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger, and all the recipients of this exceptional honor are recorded here. As a complete chronological record of George Crosses awarded in Britain and around the world, this book is an essential...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 416 p. This fully revised paperback edition of the complete chronological record of VC holders is an essential work of reference for every student of military history. All the British and Commonwealth servicemen who have been awarded the highest honor for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice are commemorated here. The first VCs awarded for the...
Theiss in Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2021. — 432 p. Über Jahrhunderte schickten die Sultane ihr Heer nach Europa. Sie machten dem Oströmischen Reich 1453 durch die Eroberung Konstantinopels ein Ende und blieben danach bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts auf dem Balkan präsent. Doch das lag nicht, wie so oft behauptet, am stetigen Imperativ des Heiligen Krieges....
Theiss in Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2021. — 432 p. Über Jahrhunderte schickten die Sultane ihr Heer nach Europa. Sie machten dem Oströmischen Reich 1453 durch die Eroberung Konstantinopels ein Ende und blieben danach bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts auf dem Balkan präsent. Doch das lag nicht, wie so oft behauptet, am stetigen Imperativ des Heiligen Krieges....
Harry N. Abrams, 2011. — 394 p. In what is certain to be the standard history for many years to come, David Brewer has captured the period brilliantly, from the ground up—the heroes and villains, the victories, and the tragic defeats. Greece was, as Byron said, a land with a special destiny: "Freedom's home, or Glory's grave." The Greek War of Independence is a masterful...
Raintree Steck-Vaughn Company, 1999. — 88 p. Describes the widespread changes in the conduct of war that occurred in the 200 years between the beginning of the sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Ten titles describe the causes, consequences, strategies, weaponry, and key figures of warfare from ancient times to the present. Authentic photographs of modern...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 353 p. On the evening of September 11, 2002, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering in the background, television cameras captured President George W. Bush as he advocated the charge for war against Iraq. This carefully staged performance, writes Susan Brewer, was the culmination of a long tradition of sophisticated wartime propaganda in America....
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 353 p. On the evening of September 11, 2002, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering in the background, television cameras captured President George W. Bush as he advocated the charge for war against Iraq. This carefully staged performance, writes Susan Brewer, was the culmination of a long tradition of sophisticated wartime propaganda in America....
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 353 p. On the evening of September 11, 2002, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering in the background, television cameras captured President George W. Bush as he advocated the charge for war against Iraq. This carefully staged performance, writes Susan Brewer, was the culmination of a long tradition of sophisticated wartime propaganda in America....
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 353 p. On the evening of September 11, 2002, with the Statue of Liberty shimmering in the background, television cameras captured President George W. Bush as he advocated the charge for war against Iraq. This carefully staged performance, writes Susan Brewer, was the culmination of a long tradition of sophisticated wartime propaganda in America....
Ramsbury: Crowood Press, 1998. — 128 p. The desert battle of Omdurman in the Sudan on 2 September 1898 was seen as Britain's revenge for the death of Gordon at Khartoum. The most famous incident of the battle was the charge of the 21st Lancers, generally accepted as the last full cavalry charge. Three Victoria Crosses were awarded and the Queen granted her own name to the...
Pegasus Books, 2011. — 368 p. The rousing story of Lafayette—aide-de-camp and “adopted son” of George Washington—exploring his vital role in the American Revolution. In this long-overdue history of Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette, acclaimed French author Gonzague Saint Bris recounts Lafayette's invaluable contributions to the American War of Independence and, later, the French...
Da Capo Press, 1999. — 495 p. Authors Victor Brooks and Robert Hohwald examine in considerable detail the various battles and campaigns of the early American wars fought by the young republic, in search of common factors that may have led to the nation's survival and triumph.
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...
University Press of Kentucky, 1998. — 368 p. Kent Brown's stunning account of the career of Lt. Alonzo Hereford Cushing offers valuable insights into the nature of the Civil War and the men who fought it. Brown's vivid descriptions of the heat and exhaustion of forced marches, of the fury of battle, have seldom been matched in Civil War literature. A beautifully written and...
Helion and Company, 2018. — 248 p. There have been few books about Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey's expeditionary force went on to command divisions in Wellington's Peninsula army; another two commanded the Iron Duke's Royal Artillery; and one...
Royal Historical Society, 1980. — 202 p. An examination of the purchase and sale of officers' commissions in the British Army from the origins of the system in the late Middle Ages to its abolition in 1871. Dr Bruce assesses how this method of recruitment and advancement may have affected the relationship of the armed forces to wider society.
Sapere Books, 2021. — 297 p. Holding unjustified fears that Russia threatened India’s north-western border, the Company decided to make a pre-emptive strike and ensure that this menace would be stopped by a strong pro-British Afghanistan. Thousands of British and Indian troops invaded this mountainous land to intervene in a succession dispute between emir Dost Mahommed Khan and...
Sapere Books, 2020. — 276 p. George Bruce’s remarkable book uncovers the history of the two Anglo-Sikh Wars that erupted in India in the 1840s. Perfect for fans of William Dalrymple, Lawrence James and Richard Holmes. By the end of the nineteenth century India was described as the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, but how did such a small island come to dominate one of...
University of Rochester Press, 2019. — 272 p. Guns have been linked with masculinity since their earliest days on European battlefields, and surviving treatises on gunpowder from the early fifteenth century describe in detail the kinds of strong, sober, and God-fearing men who could be trusted to use this new weapon. As the destructive capacity and military tactical value of...
Profile Books, 2015. — 374 p. The Battle of Dybbøl, 1864. Prussian troops lay siege to an outpost in the far south of Denmark. The conflict is over control of the Duchy of Schleswig, recently annexed by Denmark to the alarm of its largely German-speaking inhabitants. Danish troops make a valiant attempt to hold out but are overrun by the might of the Prussian onslaught. Of...
Zeughaus Verlag GmbH, 2009. — 61 p. — (Heere und Waffen 13). Keine Armee der deutschen Rheinbundstaaten wurde einem solchen grundlegenden Wandel in Organisation und Uniformierung unterworfen wie die Sächsische Truppen der Napoleonischen Ära. Ausgehend von den Erfahrungen der Feldzüge von 1806/07 auf der Seite Preußens und 1809 auf der Seite der Franzosen wurde eine umfangreiche...
Palermo Associazione Mediterranea, 2014. — 157 p. La battaglia, per lo studioso, non è l’evento vissuto che fu per i combattenti. La paura, il furore, la sofferenza, il massacro e l’atroce materialità dell’uccisione sono spesso banditi da narrazioni che tentano di eludere l’insondabile ed esorcizzare l’intollerabile: una sorta di pudore nei confronti della violenza vissuta che,...
Firenze University Press, 2009. — 367 p. What was the impact of the armies of the King of Spain on one of the territories of its composite monarchy during the centuries of the early modern age? What changes took place in the relations of power between the local institutions and the Madrid headquarters, between the Lombard corps and the city of Milan, between the representatives...
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 region's...
Westholme Publishing, 2007. — 228 p. The First and Second Sikh Wars of the 1840s were the final battles that secured British domination of the Indian subcontinent for the next century. Noted for both their brutality and sophistication in tactics—with large-scale cavalry clashes, sieges, and artillery and infantry engagements—the wars against the Sikh principalities not only...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 289 p. The Battle of Pinkie, fought between the English and the Scots in 1547, was the last great clash between the two as independent nations. It is a well-documented battle with several eyewitness accounts and contemporary illustrations. There is also archaeological evidence of military activities. The maneuvers of the two armies can be placed in the...
3rd ed. — University of Nebraska Press, 1906. — 575 p. Originally published in 1896, Small Wars is an ambitious attempt to analyze and draw lessons from Western experience in fighting campaigns of imperial conquest. The quality of C. E. Callwell’s analysis, the sweep of his knowledge, and his ability to integrate information from an impressive variety of experiences resulted in...
Plurilingua Publishing, 2017. — 50 p. La batalla de Solferino (1859) se inscribe en el marco de la unificación de Italia, que a su vez se sitúa dentro de un período revolucionario que sacude Europa a partir de 1848. Para acabar con la dominación extranjera, las ocho regiones que conforman el territorio italiano deciden unirse políticamente y formar un único Estado, pero olvidan...
Goose Lane Editions, 2013. — 159 p. A little-known episode in North America's history, the 1839 Aroostook War was an undeclared war with no actual fighting. It had its roots in the 1793 Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War but left the border of Maine (then part of Massachusetts) and British North America unsettled, and in the War of 1812, when parts of...
Routledge, 2016. — 237 p. Between the Crimean War and the end of the First World War the British Army underwent a dramatic change from being an anachronistic and frequently ineffective organization to being perhaps the most professional and highly trained army in the world. Historians have tended to view that transformation through the successive political reform efforts of...
Almena Ediciones, 2017. — 82 p. “El quitarle Mantua a quien la heredaba comezó la guerra que nunca se acaba”, dejó escrito Francisco de Quevedo con su característica ironía. Y así fue en efecto; la muerte de Vicente II Gonzaga, duque de Mantua y Monferrato, abrió una disputa más en una Europa sobrada ya de conflictos. La cuestión de quien debía heredar los ducados en discordia,...
Routledge, 2015. — 258 p. Guillaume Caoursin, the Vice-chancellor of the Order of the Hospital, wrote the Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio (Description of the Siege of Rhodes) as the official record of the Ottoman siege of the Knights in Rhodes in 1480. The Descriptio was the first authorized account of the Order’s activities to appear in printed form, and it became one of...
Editori Laterza, 2015. — 647 p. Cominciò così la grande battaglia attorno alle mura di Vienna. Era il 12, nel giorno di domenica benaugurante per i cristiani. Alle quattro del mattino, re Giovanni insieme con il figlio Jakub servì personalmente e con devozione la messa celebrata da frate Marco nella cappella camaldolese. Lo scontro si protrasse fino a sera per concludersi...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2010. — 256 p. La entrada de los países europeos en la modernidad no es ajena, como ningún proceso histórico, al desarrollo armamentístico y militar: los imperios de españoles, portugueses, británicos u holandeses se consiguieron y se administraron con pólvora. Breve Historia de la Guerra Moderna nos descubrirá la evolución del armamento y de las tácticas...
Göteborg: Oscar Ericson, 1905. — 135 p. Karl X Gustavs Polska Krig var ett krig främst mellan Sverige och Polen-Litauen som varade 1655 – 1660 och slutade utan tydlig segrare. Sverige hade många framgångar i början av kriget. Man intog stora delar av Polen-Litauen och många polacker gick över till den svenska sidan. Allteftersom kriget pågick ökade motståndet mot svenskarna,...
Crítica, 2018. — 2721 p. Esta obra supone la primera biografía de Alejandro Farnesio (Roma, 1545 - Arras, Francia, 1592), Duque de Parma y militar al servicio de España. Descendía de un Papa y un emperador. Siendo adolescente pasó a la corte de España, donde se educó; en 1565 se casó con la princesa María de Portugal. Como militar al servicio de la Corona española, destacó en...
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 the...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 371 p. Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often—and most bloodily—against each other. The almost continuous fighting on land and sea for the two and one-half...
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...
Routledge, 2022. — 338 p. The War of American Independence, 1763–1783: Falling Dominoes addresses the military, maritime and naval, economic, key personalities, key societal groups, political, imperial rivalry, and diplomatic dynamics and events from the post-Seven Years’ War era in Great Britain’s North American colonies through the end of the War of American Independence....
Longman, 1991. — 254 p. In his last book, historian William Carr provides a masterly account of the origins and impact of the three major wars fought by Prussia in creating the Bismarckian Reich of 1871. He begins with a study of the development of nationalism and liberalism from the late eighteenth century to the 1860's, before turning to a detailed examination of the...
Barnes and Company, 1876. — 827 p. This is a list and good describing of major military actions in the American Revolutionary War during 1775-1781. Major campaigns, theaters, and military expeditions of the American war: Boston campaign (1775–1776) Invasion of Quebec (1775–1776) New York and New Jersey campaigns (1776–1777) Saratoga campaign (1777) Philadelphia campaign...
Helion and Company. 2020 — 355 p. ighting for Liberty gives a gritty blow-by-blow account of the campaigns of 1685. A conflict that starts in Orkney and ends on the battlefield of Sedgemoor. Today there is a myth that the rebels were a misguided peasant rabble, easily put down by disciplined lines of red-coated soldiers, but this is not reflected in the original correspondence,...
Routledge, 2021. — 302 p. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military revolution in the early modern period has been much debated in international historiography, and this...
Fisher Unwin, 1914. — 495 p. The participation of Greece in the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 is one of the most important episodes in modern Greek history, as it allowed the Greek state to almost double its size and achieve most of its present territorial size. It also served as a catalyst of political developments, as it brought to prominence two personalities, whose relationship...
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...
Rupa Publications, 2020. — 440 p. The Battle of Plassey, fought on 23 June 1757, changed the course of Indian history forever. When the short, sharp hostilities between the forces of the nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-daulah, and East India Company troops led by Robert Clive, an ambitious soldier of fortune, ended, Britain was on its way to becoming the dominant force in the region....
Armand Colin, 2016. — 352 p. Comment la France est-elle devenue une grande puissance militaire, la première sur terre et sur mer sous Louis XIV? Trois siècles durant, un effort colossal a été exigé du royaume par les monarques Bourbon pour former, équiper et entretenir armées et flottes. De ce gigantesque investissement humain, financier, matériel, technologique, logistique et...
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. — 288 p. This volume, spanning nearly three centuries of professional warfare, chronicles sixteen battles, from Blenheim in 1704 and Waterloo in 1815 to Burma in 1945. David Chandler, the head of the War Studies Department at Sandhurst, has gathered a team of widely respected military historians to describe the...
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.
University of Nebraska Press, 2021. — 425 p. Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history and a land-sea venture to seize control of the Spanish West Indies that ended in ghastly failure. Thirty-four years before the Battles of Lexington and Concord, a significant force of American soldiers...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 121 p. Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign 1798 failed in all of its objectives other than in the acquisition of knowledge. Far from frustrating British ambitions in the Orient, the British triumphed in the minor war that Napoleon triggered, and it was the British who would dominate Egypt for the next 150 years. Even after the British took control...
Charles River Editors Press, 2021. — 68 p. By the 19th century, the tsar was notoriously referring to the Ottoman Empire as the “sick man of Europe,” and by the start of World War I, the Ottoman Empire was often described as a dwindling power, mired by administrative corruption, using inferior technology, and plagued by poor leadership. The general idea is that the Ottoman...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 62 p. In 1291, three cantons around Lake Lucerne—Schwyz, Uri, and Unterwalden—formed the so-called “Everlasting League” to counter outside aggression. This became the nucleus of what would develop into the Swiss Confederacy, and eventually the nation of Switzerland. Gradually, more and more cantons would join, ending their constant,...
Charles River Editors Press, 2021. — 64 p. In the wake of taking Constantinople, the Ottoman Empire would spend the next few centuries expanding its size, power, and influence, bumping up against Eastern Europe and becoming one of the world’s most important geopolitical players. It would take repeated efforts by various European coalitions to prevent a complete Ottoman takeover...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 45 p. For anyone trying to understand the origins of modern Russia and the start of the Russo-Turkish Wars, the search should begin with Tsar Peter I (1672-1725), who titled himself Peter the Great during his lifetime. The moniker is fitting, considering the manner in which Peter brought Russia out of the Middle Ages and into the 18th...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 165 p. There were some exceptions to this, however, and the most notable was the Zulu Kingdom, a centralized monarchy of enormous military prowess that would require a full-fledged war for the British to pacify. At the height of its power in the southern part of Africa, the Zulu could rely on an army of 40,000 warriors, presenting a...
Charles River Editors, 2018. — 95 p. By the time the Revolutionary War started, military confrontations between the world powers had become so common that combat was raised to the status of a fine art, consuming a large portion of time for adolescent males in training and comprising a sizeable component of the economy. Weaponry was developed to a degree of quality not...
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, 2019. — 240 p. — Перевод: Крючков Ю.Н. Правление Людовика XIV во Франции оказало большое влияние на ход европейской и мировой военной истории. Годы с 1643 по 1715 были определяющей эпохой для западных военных, дипломатических и экономических вопросов. Большая часть этих лет была отмечена конфликтом между крупными европейскими державами и войсками...
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 & Company, 2020. — 261 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. Правление Людовика XIV во Франции оказало большое влияние на ход европейской и мировой военной истории. Годы с 1643 по 1715 были определяющей эпохой для западных военных, дипломатических и экономических вопросов. Большая часть этих лет была отмечена конфликтом между крупными европейскими державами и войсками...
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. — 332 p. — Перевод: Крючков Ю.Н. Правление Людовика XIV во Франции оказало огромное влияние на ход европейской и мировой истории. Годы с 1643 по 1715 были определяющей эпохой для западных военных, дипломатических, экономических и культурных вопросов. Это была эпоха, в течение которой французские и в конечном итоге все армии увидели необычайные...
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 to the Spanish that soon...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 282 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. Эта четвертая и последняя часть нашего исследования посвящена войне за испанское наследство начала XVIII века. Это был самый крупный и сложный конфликт в Европе со времен Тридцатилетней войны и непревзойденный до Наполеоновских войн. Он начался из-за конфликта между Бурбонской Францией и Габсбургской...
Helion and 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 and 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. — 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 to the Spanish that soon...
Helion Company, 2021. — 246 p. From the middle of the 16th century to the early years of the 18th century, cavalry experienced significant changes in doctrine, deployment, and the equipment it used. The Men-at-Arms, carrying lances and arranged in large formations, were replaced by more lightly-armed cavalrymen fighting with swords and pistols in new and more flexible tactical...
Helion Company, 2021. — 237 с. Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. С середины XVI века до начала XVIII века кавалерия претерпела значительные изменения в доктрине, развертывании и используемом ею снаряжении. Вооруженные копьями и выстроенные в большие формации кавалеристы были заменены более легковооруженными кавалеристами, сражавшимися мечами и пистолетами в новых и более гибких...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 671 p. Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in the mid-nineteenth century in the US, Asia and Europe, leading historians trace the global evolution of warfare through 'the age of mass', 'the age of...
Read Books, 2020. — 192 p. This book was firstly published in 1911. A word about my object in writing again. Contemporaneously with the publication of "War and the Arme Blanche," General von Bernhardi published in Germany his "Reiterdienst," and an English edition, translated by Major G.T.M. Bridges, D.S.O., under the title "Cavalry in War and Peace," appeared simultaneously in...
Routledge, 2022. — 215 p. This book focuses on the relation between technology, warfare and state in South Asia in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. It explores how gunpowder and artillery played a pivotal role in the military ascendancy of the East India Company in India. The monograph argues that the contemporary Indian military landscape was extremely dynamic,...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 320 p. When war broke out between France and Prussia in the summer of 1870, one of the first targets of the invading German armies was Strasbourg. From August 15 to September 27, Prussian forces bombarded this border city, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands more, and destroying many historic buildings and landmarks. For six...
Warszawa, Bellona, 2004. — 150 s. — ISBN: 831109954-5 Husaria (z węg. huszár, serb. husar, gusar) to polska jazda znana z wielu zwycięstw formacja kawaleryjska Rzeczypospolitej, obecna na polach bitew od początku XVI wieku do połowy XVIII wieku. Była wykorzystywana do przełamywania sił nieprzyjaciela poprzez zadawanie rozstrzygających uderzeń w postaci szarż, które w...
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1990. — 958 s. — ISBN 8311074321 Zarys dziejów wojskowości polskiej, obejmujący lata 1864-1939, zwany umownie trzecim tomem, stanowi kontynuację dwóch poprzednich tomów omawiających okres do roku 1864. Książka ma charakter cało-kształtowy, syntetyczny, a jednocześnie może służyć jako podręcznik dla studiujących historię...
The Great Courses, 2018. — 304 p. Wars have played a crucial role in defining the United States and its place in the world. No one is better equipped to analyze this subject in depth than retired U.S. Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark—decorated combat veteran, author, Rhodes Scholar, and former NATO Supreme Commander. In this 24-lecture course, Gen. Clark explores the full scope of...
Routledge, 2006. — 376 p. An Army officer must lead men into frightening and dangerous situations and sometimes make them do things that they never thought they could do. This book recounts how British officers have led their men, and commanded their respect, from the days of Marlborough to the Second Iraq war of 2003. Anthony Clayton explores who the officers, men and now women,...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2011. — 259 p. Breve historia de las Guerras Carlistas presenta cómo se originó este capítulo de la historia contemporánea de España y que estalló con el inicio de la llamada "cuestión sucesoria" al final del reinado de Fernando VII que, sin sucesor masculino directo o más cercano, que era el Infante don Carlos María Isidro de Borbón y Borbón, hermano mayor...
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 basis...
Helion and Company, 2019 — 135 p. The Reichsarmee – the ‘Army of the Empire’ made up of contingents from the minor German states – reached the nadir of its fortunes in 1757 with defeat at Rossbach. For the following year’s campaigning, which included the defence of Bamburg, the action at Basberg, the siege of Sonnenstein, and the combat at Eilenburg, it came under the command...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 356 p. Military Culture and Popular Patriotism examines the interplay between popular patriotism and military culture in late imperial Austria. Laurence Cole suggests that two main questions should be asked regarding the western half of the Habsburg Monarchy during the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of war in 1914....
Osprey Publishing, 2024. — 282 p. The 17th-century battlefield ushered in a new era, with formed musketeers and pistol-wielding cavalry gradually taking over from the knights and men-at-arms that had dominated the European battlefield. Based on a detailed study of the primary sources, Steel Lobsters tells the story of this transition through the history of the last fully...
University of Chicago Press, 1978. — 307 p. This compact history of the war attempts to separate myth from reality. Professor Coles narrates the main operations on both land and sea of the three-year struggle. He examines the conflict from the British (and Canadian) as well as the American point of view, relating events in America to the larger war going on in Europe. A...
Routledge, 2005. — 285 p. Written by an experienced author and expert in the field, Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815 provides a thorough re-examination of the crucial period in the history of France for students of history and military studies. Based on extensive research, and including twenty detailed maps, this study is unique in its focus on the wars of...
US Army Command and General Staff College Press, 1995. — 150 p. This study consists of a series of essays analyzing various combat engagements and military leaders throughout history. The unifying theme of these essays was provided by the direct or indirect application to each case of the five Battle Command "competencies:". The battles, operations, and leaders discussed in the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 224 p. Much has been written about the British army's campaigns during the many wars it fought in the eighteenth century, but for over 150 years no one has attempted to produce a history of the army as an institution during this period. That is why Stephen Conway's perceptive and detailed study is so timely and important. Taking into account the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 224 p. Much has been written about the British army's campaigns during the many wars it fought in the eighteenth century, but for over 150 years no one has attempted to produce a history of the army as an institution during this period. That is why Stephen Conway's perceptive and detailed study is so timely and important. Taking into account the...
Casemate Publishers, 2008. — 239 p. The Battle of Marston Moor in 1644 was key in English military history. It was the largest battle of the Civil Wars, and was decisive. This fresh study reconstructs the battle in graphic detail, and tells the story using the words of those who took part. This is a very good explanation of how Marston Moor came to be fought and how it was...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 192 p. Throughout recorded history Yorkshire has been a setting for warfare of all kinds - marches, skirmishes and raids, pitched battles and sieges. And it is the sieges of the Civil War period - which often receive less attention than other forms of combat - that are the focus of David Cooke's new history. Hull, York, Pontefract, Knaresborough, Sandal,...
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...
Kessinger Publishing, 2010. — 777 p. In this book, originally published in 1877, lieutenant William Henry Cope recounts the trials and tribulations of the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own) in which he served. An infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was formed in Jan. 1800 as the “Experimental Corps of Riflemen” to provide sharpshooters, scouts and skirmishers...
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...
Pen and Sword Military, 2009. — 240 p. The senior and famous British generals of the Victorian era - men like Wolseley, Roberts, Gordon and Kitchener - were heroes of their time. As soldiers, administrators and battlefield commanders they represented the empire at the height of its power. But they were a disparate, sometimes fractious group of men. They exhibited many of the...
Texas University Press, 1998. — 368 p. In America’s popular memory of the Spanish-American War, the all-volunteer Rough Riders won the war in spite of ossified civilian and regular army leadership. In this authoritative account, however, military historian Graham A. Cosmas reconstructs the planning and execution of Spanish-American War strategy from the perspective of those...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. — 392 p. The British troops who fought so successfully under the Duke of Wellington during his Peninsular Campaign against Napoleon have long been branded by the duke's own words - "scum of the earth" - and assumed to have been society's ne'er-do-wells or criminals who enlisted to escape justice. Now Edward J. Coss shows to the contrary that...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 216 p. — (From Reason to Revolution - 97) The history of the Irish Brigade remains fascinating more than three centuries after its creation in the late seventeenth century and is regularly revived in the English-speaking world as well as in Western Europe thanks to historians, journalists, and even politicians. The military feats of these Irish...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 265 p. With Arthurian grandeur the Papal Zouaves marched into Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, summoned by the Pope under siege as the Wars of the Risorgimento raged. Motivated by wanderlust, a sense of duty and the call of faith, some 20,000 Catholic men from around the world rallied to Vatican City to defend her gates against Sardinian...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2017. — 122 p. First published in 1948, renowned British Empire historian Coupland describes, with swift and vivid strokes, the situation between whites and blacks, the great military qualities and terrifying military tactics of the Zulu warriors and the characters of the Englishmen, soldiers and politicians, involved in the disaster. Having prepared...
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.
Soldier Shop Publishing, 2016. — 84 p. — (Soldiers and Weapons). The German Landsknechte (German plural, singular Landsknecht), meaning "servants of the land", were colourful mercenary soldiers with a redoubtable reputation, who took over the Swiss forces' legacy and became the most formidable military force of the late 15th and throughout 16th century Europe, consisting...
Soldier Shop Publishing, 2011. — 80 p. Il 22 giugno 1636, nei dintorni di Tornavento, tra gli Spagnoli che occupavano il Milanese, capitanati dal marchese di Leganes, e l'esercito invasore dei francesi, alleato deiPiemontesi e comandati dal maresciallo di Crèqui, fu combattuta nell'ambito della Guerradei Trent'Anni una sanguinosa battaglia che lasciò 2.000 morti nella brughiera.
Westholme Publishing, 2009. — 352 p. In January 1755, Major General Edward Braddock was sent by Great Britain on a mission to drive France once and for all from the New World. Accompanied by the largest armed expeditionary force ever sent to North America, Braddock’s primary target was the Forks of the Ohio, where he planned to seize Fort Duquesne (at present-day Pittsburgh,...
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 ran...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. — 280 p. War, Law and Humanity tells the story of the transatlantic campaign to either mitigate the destructive forces of the battlefield, or prevent wars from being waged altogether, in the decades prior to the disastrous summer of 1914. Starting with the Crimean War of the 1850s, James Crossland traces this campaign to control warfare from the...
Warwick: Helion & Company Limited, 2021. — 174 p. — (From reason to revolution 1721-1815). In 1792 France unleashed a new form of warfare in Europe. Faced with the well-drilled Austrian and Prussian armies, the French introduced the tactic of mass skirmishing by tirailleurs. Soldiers were thrown forwards and told to fight in open order. Moving quickly and making use of cover,...
The History Press, 2016. — 429 p. Winston Churchill did not describe General Sir Charles Monro in the most glowing terms. Referring to Monro’s brave decision to recommend a withdrawal from the Gallipoli disaster, Churchill said: ‘He came, he saw, he capitulated.’ Monro was one of a handful of senior officers selected to command a division with the British Expeditionary Force in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1991. — 215 p. Chronicles the young English king's 1513 military campaign in France as part of an alliance with the papacy, Venice, and Spain, and how his amateurish tactics benefited everyone but him. Well researched and written, the fascinating story of Henry VIII's first military campaign in France and the massive preparations - for his comfort - in his...
Brill, 2002. — 265 p. — (History of Warfare 9). Warfare, and the circumstances surrounding it, have often provided important impulses for cultural production. This book explores the relationship between warfare and image-making in the early modern period. Rather than dealing with images simply as reproductions of actual events, the volume demonstrates complex processes by which...
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 were separated by the Atacama Desert, one of the driest regions in the world. When it was realised that the...
GMT Games, 2012. — 56 p. — (Musket and Pike Battle Series, Volume VI). The Bohemian Revolt of 1618 triggered the Thirty Years War and in the early period of the war the Catholic/Imperial cause enjoyed an almost unbroken string of victories. This small book, part of the Musket and Pike Battle Series, gamely simulates six battles (White Mountain, Wimpfen, Fleurus, Höchst,...
Naval Institute Press, 2016. — 176 р. — 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 р. — 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...
Lwów, 1885. — 60 s. Prezentowana książka opisuje pierwszy etap walk w Danii – przeprawę na wyspę Alsen (Als). Czarniecki obrawszy sobie za kwaterę miejscowość Haderslev, rozpoczął kampanię, której fragment upamiętniony został w naszym hymnie i odnosi się właśnie do przeprawy na wskazaną wyspę oraz zdobycia S?nderborga. Po zajęciu wyspy wojska polskie rozpoczęły dalszy pochód w...
Goose Lane Editions, 2006. — 132 p. In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland. The American Fenians' mission: to invade British North America and hold it hostage. New Brunswick, with its large Irish population and undefended frontier, was a perfect target. The book tells how, in the...
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 years...
Marlborough: The Crowood Press Ltd, 1997. — 193 p. — (Crowood Aviation Series). — ISBN 1861264925 The aeroplane grew up very quickly through World War One. From being a novelty flown by rich young playboys it matured into an effective weapon in less than four years. With over 500 photographs, World War One in the Air tells the whole story from the early years, when...
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...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2017. — 318 p. Few military leaders have been as successful or as flamboyant as Maurice Marshal de Saxe, who reigned supreme in the tangled wars that raged across Europe during the early-Eighteenth Century. In this pithy biography, Edmund d’Auvergne traces the ascent of the future marshal from his lowly roots as an illegitimate son of Augustus II of...
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...
Penguin Books, 2011. — 608 p. Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed heroism in battle and stoicism in peace, despite appalling treatment. This is their story: of brutal discipline and inedible food, of loyalty and low pay, of barracks and battlefield - of victory, defeat, life...
Penguin Books, 2009. — 560 p. In "Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire" Saul David explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This is the story of how it happened and the people who made it happen. In a fast-moving narrative ranging from London to the harsh terrain of...
Continuum, 2011. — 288 p. In terms of resource mobilization and devastation the wars between Russia, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire were some of the largest of the eighteenth century, and had enormous consequences for the balance of power in Eastern Europe. Brian Davies examines how these conflicts characterized the course of Russian military development in response...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 384 p. At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in 1742, the British Army’s military tactics were tired and outdated, stultified after three decades of peace. The army’s leadership was conservative, resistant to change, and unable to match new military techniques developing on the continent. Losses were cataclysmic and the force was in...
Yale University Press, 2012. — 336 p. Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate--and controversial--new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career. Unlike his nemesis Napoleon,...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 439 p. If you peruse a bookshop’s shelves, Tudor history seems to concern itself with Monarchy (mostly wives), religion (for or against the Reformation) with a side order of cookery (pies and pottage). Tudor warfare has either been dismissed as unimportant or criticised for its ‘backwardness’. There have, however, been recent attempts to re-evaluate...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 256 p. Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to concentrate in depth, in graphic detail,...
Frontline Books, 2022. — 272 p. Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defenses of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers’ supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track from Balaklava into a muddy quagmire and soon it became virtually impassable. Horses were...
Greenwood Press, 1990. — 252 p. Dawson builds his guide around more than 1,100 bibliographic entries, many of which have brief, descriptive annotations. The citations, arranged topically in eight chapters, are drawn from books, periodicals, and dissertations. A ninth chapter covers pertinent government documents and manuscript collections. Author and subject indexes and four...
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 1643...
Routledge, 2016. — 220 p. — (Asian States and Empires 12). The Mughal Empire was one of the great powers of the early modern era, ruling almost all of South Asia, a conquest state, dominated by its military elite. Many historians have viewed the Mughal Empire as relatively backward, the Emperor the head of a traditional warband from Central Asia, with tribalism and the...
Leiden: Brill, 2008. — 504 p. — (History of Warfare 8). — ISBN13 9789004164451. — ISBN10 9004164456. This is the second update of A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, which appeared in 2002. It is meant to do two things: to present references to works on medieval military history and technology not included in the first two volumes; and to...
Oxford University Press, 1990. — 300 p. In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism. Still, it preserved domestic peace and provided the conditions for social, economic, and cultural progress in a vast area inhabited by eleven major nationalities and almost as many confessional groups....
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 318 p. In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both world wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform factory workers and farmers into riflemen. Raising armies is...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 496 p. How Apaches, Navajos, Kiowas, and especially Comanches played a decisive role in America’s watershed victory over Mexico. In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called "the barbarians" descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes...
Bellona, 2009. — 199 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Осада Каменца-Подольского — осада турками польской крепости Каменец-Подольский 18 — 27 августа 1672 года во время польско-турецкой войны 1672—1676. Потеря ключевой крепости заставила Речь Посполитую подписать Бучачский мир, сдать Подолье туркам и платить ежегодную дань в 22 000 дукатов. Сейм отклонил договор и смог собрать большую...
Savas Beatie, 2021. — 311 p. The fate of the American Revolution had yet to be decided when a remarkable 21-year-old Frenchman arrived in America. Louis-François-Bertrand, the Count of Lauberdière, belonged to an old noble family that traced its heritage back to the Crusades. His father, François-Charles-Mathieu, was musketeer of the guard of King Louis XV. More important, his...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 256 p. Over two hundred years ago, on 21 June 1813, just southwest of Vitoria in northern Spain, the British, Portuguese, and Spanish army commanded by the Duke of Wellington confronted the French army of Napoleon’s brother Joseph. Hours later Wellington’s forces won an overwhelming victory and, after six years of bitter occupation, the French...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 357 p. This biography of the Victorian era general and politician sheds light on Britain’s military maneuverings against the First French Republic. The French Revolutionary Wars of 1793-1801 were a critical turning point in the political and diplomatic history of Europe, and Sir Ralph Abercromby played a leading role in the British military...
Helion and Company, 2018. — 144 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №22). When the French declared war on Great Britain in 1793, they undermined the chosen policy of William Pitt, which had been to avoid conflict in order to repair the nation’s finances. The result of this policy was an understrength and inadequately resourced army. Whether campaigning on the continent in...
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 of...
The History Press, 2016. — 284 p. The Protestant war cry of "No Surrender!" was first used in 1689 by the Mayor of Londonderry as James II’s army laid siege to the city for 105 days and during which half the city’s population died. There were many acts of courage—from the heroic death of Captain Browning to the anonymous apprentice boys who played signal roles in the defense of...
Little, Brown and Company, 2012. — 528 p. On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused to surrender for nearly two weeks until almost 2,000 Mexican troops unleashed a final assault. The defenders fought valiantly — for their lives and for a free and...
Companhia das Letras, 2008. — 262 p. Manoel Luís Osorio, marques de Herval, que entrou para a história simplesmente como general Osorio, foi o militar mais popular do país na segunda metade do século XIX, mais popular até do que seu contemporâneo duque de Caxias. Nasceu no então remoto Rio Grande do Sul, onde viveu praticamente toda sua vida, e conseguiu, sem sair da província...
Podzun-Pallas, 1983. — 172 p. 'Die preußische Infanterie war das Rückgrat der Armee Friedrich des Großen. Ihre durch eiserne Übung in jener Zeit unerreichte taktische Wendigkeit, Schnelligkeit und Kampfkraft schuf die Grundlage seiner erstaunlichen Erfolge...' Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Geschichte jenes einzelnen Regiments, nicht nur in der Zeit des Siebenjährigen Krieges...
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...
University Press of Mississippi, 2007. — 221 p. A great many commanders in the American Civil War (1861-1865) served in the Mexican War (1846-1848). Civil War Leadership and Mexican War Experience explores the influence of the earlier war on those men who would become leaders of Federal and Confederate forces. Military historian Kevin Dougherty sets the context with a discussion...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. — 550 p. Authoritative and concise, Warfare in the Western World concentrates on selected campaigns and battles, showing how political and military leaders in the West have used armies to wage war effectively over the last four centuries. The text moves through the centuries, discussing how operational developments and technological improvements...
University of Massachusetts Press, 2000. — 272 p. Sometimes described as "America's deadliest war," King Philip's War proved a critical turning point in the history of New England, leaving English colonists decisively in command of the region at the expense of native peoples. Although traditionally understood as an inevitable clash of cultures or as a classic example of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 281 p. This book explores Belgian state-building through the prism of its army from independence to the First World War. It argues that party-politics, which often ran along geographical, linguistic, and religious lines, prevented both Flemings and Walloons from reconciling their regional identities into a unified concept of Belgian nationalism....
University Press of Kansas, 2016. — 344 p. Popular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai charges and fanatical leaders blindly devoted to their emperor. Edward Drea looks well past those stereotypes to unfold the more complex story of how that army came to power and extended its influence at home and abroad to become one of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 306 p. This book reveals the primary causes of Habsburg defeat both in the Austro-Prussian War and the First World War. The choice of offensive strategy and tactics against an enemy possessing superior weaponry in the Austro-Prussian War, and opponents with superior numbers and weapons in the Great War, resulted in catastrophe. The inferiority of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 306 p. This book reveals the primary causes of Habsburg defeat both in the Austro-Prussian War and the First World War. The choice of offensive strategy and tactics against an enemy possessing superior weaponry in the Austro-Prussian War, and opponents with superior numbers and weapons in the Great War, resulted in catastrophe. The inferiority of the...
Louisiana State University Press, 2014. — 408 p. Perhaps no conflict in American history is more important yet more overlooked and misunderstood than the War of 1812. Begun by President James Madison after decades of humiliating British trade interference and impressment of American sailors, the war in many ways was the second battle for United States independence. At the...
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...
Phoenix, 2007. — 656 p. Written by the world’s greatest authority on 18th century warfare, this fast-paced, exciting narrative will completely revise popular opinion about “Bonnie Prince” Charlie, the Duke of Cumberland (“The Butcher”), and the other major players in the Scottish uprising of 1745. Christopher Duffy’s original research reveals evidence of a wider plot against...
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; the...
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 the...
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...
Chatto and Windus, 1964. — 278 p. In so far as von Browne has already attracted interest, it is because some aspects of his character and generalship have an immediate and obvious appeal to modern taste, and when first undertaking this biography it seemed easy to cast the Field-Marshal simply as a figure of almost Napoleonic audacity, who was thwarted at every turn by crabbed...
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 work...
Arcadia Publishing, 2007. — 159 p. A pivotal moment in American military history, as told by our forefathers. On October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. With over one hundred eyewitness accounts, this collection of participant statements from men of both sides includes letters and...
University of South Carolina Press, 2017. — 168 p. An in-depth analysis of one of the War for Independence's bloodiest and least understood conflicts. The Battle of Eutaw Springs took place on September 8, 1781, and was among the last in the War of Independence. It was brutal in its combat and reprisals, with Continental and Whig militia fighting British regulars and Loyalist...
Routledge, 2005. — 245 p. — (Cass Military Studies). On paper, the mid-nineteenth century Egyptian army seems a formidable regional power. It had a tradition of success, modern weapons, and mercenary officers with experience in major wars. Egypt's ruler, Khedive Ismail, hoped to combine the imported technology and brains with native manpower, and establish an Egyptian dominated...
Franklin Watts, Inc., 1963. ― 102 p. ― (The Military History of World War II Volume 12). The Japanese Offensives Outbreak of War WORLD W AR II began in the Far East in the summer of 1937, when Japanese troops invaded China to begin what they ealled “the China Incident.” This was the first move in the Japanese plan to establish political and economic control over all of East...
London: Routledge, 2012. — 184 p. Oil, diamonds, timber, food aid - just some of the suggestions put forward as explanations for African wars in the past decade. Another set of suggestions focuses on ethnic and clan considerations. These economic and ethnic or clan explanations contend that wars are specifically not fought by states for political interests with mainly...
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 to...
US Naval Institute Press, 2018. — 432 p. This is the first biography of Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, a key figure in the early development of airpower, whose significant and varied achievements have been overlooked because of his subsequent involvement in the Fall of Singapore. It highlights Brooke-Popham's role in developing the first modern military logistic system, the creation...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 320 p. More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain’s colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic...
Bellona, 2005. — 180 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Battles off Magenta and Solferino (June 1859), for their results, are probably Napoleon III’s most successful military campaigns. Not only did they allow France to be the patron of Italian independence and unity and to establish the natural frontiers to the south (through the accession of Savoy and Nice to French territory), they...
Warszawa: Bellona, 2007. — 298 s. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Battle of Königgrätz (or Sadowa) was the decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War in which the Kingdom of Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire. It took place near Königgrätz and Sadowa (Sadová) in Bohemia on 3 July 1866. The heavily outnumbered Prussian infantry used their superior training and tactical doctrine and...
New York University Press, 2011. — 320 p. The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial soldiers as ill-disciplined,...
New York University Press, 2011. — 320 p. The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial soldiers as ill-disciplined,...
St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007. — 208 p. Captain Henry Morgan's capture of the city of Panamá in 1671 is seen as one of the most audacious military operations in history. In The Sack of Panamá , Peter Earle masterfully retells this classic story, combining thorough research with an emphasis on the battles that made Morgan a pirate legend. Morgan's raid was the last in a...
Berlin: Gustav Schend, 1892. — 275 p. Ernst Albrecht von Eberstein (1605–1676) was a German Army Commander, Saxon Field Marshal and Knight in the Danish Order of the Elephant. Already at a young age, he joined the army of his uncle who fought for the Dutch Republic. He was also present at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620. Between 1623 and 1648, he fought in the Thirty...
Helion Company, 2017. — 218 p. Between James’ accession in February 1685 and flight in December 1688 the British Armies increased four fold (the English, Scots and Irish Armies were still separate institutions and were to remain so until the early 18th Century, in the case of the Scots, and the early 19th Century in the case of the Irish); from a small force of little more than...
Helion and Company. 2022 — 246 p. As well as being Emperor of the French 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 Army of the Kingdom of Italy fought alongside that of France in all of the major campaigns of the Grande Armée as well as contributing troops...
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...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 246 p. As well as being Emperor of the French 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 Army of the Kingdom of Italy fought alongside that of France in all of the major campaigns of the Grande Armée as well as contributing troops...
University Press of Kentucky, 2020. — 374 p. American Datu: John J. Pershing and Counterinsurgency Warfare in the Muslim Philippines, 1899–1913 provides a play-by-play account of a crucial but often overlooked period in the development of American counterinsurgency strategy. Tracing Pershing's military campaigns in the Philippines, Ronald K. Edgerton examines how Progressive...
Random House, 2013. — 625 p. The Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent treaty, the United States gained territory that would become California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado. In this...
Irish American Book Company, 2018. — 432 p. As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del Águila has been sprung from a prison cell to command the last great Spanish Armada. Its mission: to seize a bridgehead in Queen Elizabeth's territory and hold it. Facing him is...
Pegasus Books, 2015. — 420 p. The story of the great naval and land battles between England and Spain, evoking a number of colorful and dangerous personalities who fought in the climactic conclusion to these two countries’ great rivalry on the sea. Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601. As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle...
Pegasus Books, 2015. — 420 p. The story of the great naval and land battles between England and Spain, evoking a number of colorful and dangerous personalities who fought in the climactic conclusion to these two countries’ great rivalry on the sea. Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601. As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle...
Algonquin Books, 1991. — 383 p. Begun in ignorance of the military facts of life, fought with raw troops, mostly incompetent officers, and inadequate logistics, the War of 1812 was a near disaster for the fledgling United States. This new volume in Algonquin's Major Battles and Campaigns series tells how our country's most "unmilitary" war was fought and almost lost. 12 pages of...
Helion and Company, 2006. — 475 p. This book chronicles the final conflict over the now almost forgotten “Schleswig-Holstein Question”, once a pivotal issue for the great powers of Europe. The campaign of Schleswig and Jutland was also the first of Otto von Bismarck’s Wars of German Unification, which together created a united German Empire under Prussian leadership. The...
Helion and Company, 2013. — 470 p. In the spring of 1848, revolution threatened to sweep away the old order throughout Europe. In the Austrian-occupied north of Italy, newly nurtured nationalism, further fueled by economic issues, prompted open revolt in Lombardy and Venetia. The Austrian army in Italy, commanded by 82-year-old Field Marshal Radetzky, soon saw itself under...
Reclam, Philipp, jun. GmbH, 2020. — 160 s. Überall in Deutschland erinnern Denkmäler an die Gefallenen des Deutsch-Französischen Krieges. Dieser Konflikt war die Geburtsstunde des Deutschen Reiches, das 1871 symbolträchtig im Spiegelsaal von Versailles proklamiert wurde. Mit der Reichsgründung erfüllte sich für viele der alte Traum eines einheitlichen Nationalstaates; sie...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 304 p. Relocation as a strategy and operational approach in war has reappeared in various forms from the late 18th century to the present day. In A Global History of Relocation in Counterinsurgency Warfare , Edward J Erickson brings together a distinguished cast of contributors to present a chronological survey of the major relocations of people...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 304 p. Relocation as a strategy and operational approach in war has reappeared in various forms from the late 18th century to the present day. In A Global History of Relocation in Counterinsurgency Warfare , Edward J Erickson brings together a distinguished cast of contributors to present a chronological survey of the major relocations of people...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 256 p. Rudyard Kipling was one of the most versatile writers of the Victorian age - a journalist, storyteller, historian and poet. One of the major subjects of his poetry was the British army and the way it waged its campaigns during Queen Victoria's 'little wars', and it is this aspect of his writing that Edward Erickson explores in this...
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.
La Esfera, 2017. — 352 p. Este libro relata con extraordinaria épica la aventura de la infantería española desde los tiempos del Gran Capitán, a principios del siglo xvi, hasta la disolución formal de los tercios dos siglos después. La pluma de José Javier Esparza y el pincel de José Ferre Clauzel, como si ambos hubieran estado allí quizá lo estuvieron, nos explican cómo se...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 140 p. While artillery has been described as the queen of the Napoleonic battlefield, this was an era when cavalry could still play a decisive role in battle, as well as being vital on campaign. This volume covers both British cavalry and artillery of the Napoleonic Wars, as well as supporting units such as engineers. Gabriele Esposito describes...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 156 p. The period covered in this book is one of the most famed and glorious for the British Army and the infantry was its backbone. Gabriele Esposito examines how the foot regiments were reformed and evolved to absorb the lessons of defeat in America and setbacks elsewhere to become the efficient and dependable bedrock of victory in the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 156 p. The period covered in this book is one of the most famed and glorious for the British Army and the infantry was its backbone. Gabriele Esposito examines how the foot regiments were reformed and evolved to absorb the lessons of defeat in America and setbacks elsewhere to become the efficient and dependable bedrock of victory in the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 158 p. This volume covers the infantry units of Napoleon’s Imperial Army, during the crucial years 1800-1815. When the future Emperor assumed control of France, the infantry of his army was disorganized and poorly equipped; it lacked discipline and was trained in a quite old-fashioned way. Napoleon acted very rapidly to resolve the major problems...
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 196 p. Frederick the Great was an acknowledged master of war. Admired and studied by Napoleon, he commanded the Prussian army at sixteen major battles and numerous sieges and other actions, often leading from the front. Under Frederick the Prussian Army became arguably the most feared and efficient in Europe, often defeating numerically superior...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 144 p. While artillery has been described as the queen of the Napoleonic battlefield, this was an era when cavalry could still play a decisive role in battle, as well as being vital on campaign. This volume covers both British cavalry and artillery of the Napoleonic Wars, as well as supporting units such as engineers. Gabriele Esposito describes...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 156 p. The period covered in this book is one of the most famed and glorious for the British Army and the infantry was its backbone. Gabriele Esposito examines how the foot regiments were reformed and evolved to absorb the lessons of defeat in America and setbacks elsewhere to become the efficient and dependable bedrock of victory in the...
Helion and Company. 2021 — 294 p. This three-volume series will describe and analyses the ‘Swedish Deluge’ (potop 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. 2021 — 285 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. В этой трехтомной серии описывается и анализируется «Шведский потоп» (Potop Szwedski), разрушительная серия войн 1655–1660 годов между Швецией, Речью Посполитой, Бранденбургом-Пруссией, Московской Русью, Трансильванией, казацкой Украиной, Крымским татарским ханством и Священной Римской империей во время...
Helion Company, 2019. — 268 p. The book describes and analyses the Scanian War, which was fought from 1675 to 1679 between, on one side, primarily Brandenburg and Denmark–Norway and, on the other, Sweden. The war was mainly fought in Scania, the former Danish lands along the border with Sweden, and in northern Germany. The Danish objective was to retrieve Scania which, a...
Helion and Company. 2022 — 227 p. This book describes and analyses the ‘Swedish Deluge’ (potop 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. 2022 — 205 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. В этой книге описывается и анализируется «Шведский потоп» (Potop Szwedski), разрушительная серия войн 1655–1660 годов между Швецией, Речью Посполитой, Бранденбургом-Пруссией, Московской Русью, Трансильванией, казацкой Украиной, Крымским татарским ханством и Священной Римской империей во время правления...
Helion and Company. 2023 — 427 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721) The book describes and analyses 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...
Helion and Company. 2023 — 400 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. В книге описываются и анализируются две опустошительные войны между Швецией и Данией-Норвегией во время правления короля Карла X Густава Шведского, опытного бывшего генерала Тридцатилетней войны. Датско-шведская война 1657–1658 годов была инициирована королем Дании-Норвегии Фридрихом III, который увидел...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 227 p. This book describes and analyses the ‘Swedish Deluge’ (Potop 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, 2018 — 195 p. The book describes and analyses the emergence of the early modern Russian army, before the military reforms introduced by Tsar Peter the Great brought it in line with developments in Western Europe. It will be shown that Tsar Peter’s reforms, although decisive, rested on a legacy of previous reforms. Yet, the origin of the early modern Russian...
Helion and Company. 2024 — 194 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 — 120) The Battle of Narva, in which Charles XII of Sweden defeated Peter the Great of Russia, occurred during the Great Northern War. Peter the Great’s Disastrous Defeat describes the campaign, presents new research on the battle, details the opposing Swedish and Russian armies, and explains the continued...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 307 p. The book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army, with a particular emphasis on the reforms introduced by King Gustavus Adolphus before and during the Thirty Years War. Furthermore, the book expands our understanding of the Swedish army during the Thirty Years War by also focusing on its operations on the eastern front, against...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 286 p. This book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army during the Thirty Years War after the death in 1632 of King Gustavus Adolphus. At this time, military operations were handled by field marshals under the overall command of the Swedish Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna. The book expands our understanding of the Swedish army during the...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 334 p. As military campaigns go, the War of 1812 was a disaster. By the time it ended in 1815, Washington, D.C., had been burned to the ground, the national debt had nearly tripled, and territorial gains were negligible. Yet the war gained so much popular support that it ushered in what is known as the "era of good feelings," a period...
Praeger, 2000. — 160 p. Archduke Carl of Austria lived during a time fractured by the collision of revolution and reaction, and he drew upon the French Revolution as the source for most of his experiences as a field commander and theoretician. He firmly believed that there were certain uncontradictable truths that governed warfare. This first English-language study of his...
Leuven University Press, 2021. — 389 p. Julián Romero, Sancho Dávila, Cristóbal de Mondragón, and Francisco de Valdés were prominent Spanish military commanders during the first decade of the Revolt in the Low Countries (1567–1577). Occupying key positions in this conflict, they featured as central characters in various war narratives and episodical descriptions of the events...
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 of...
Pen and Sword Books, 2009. — 224 p. The great siege of Gibraltar was the longest recorded in the annals of the British army. Between 1779 and 1783, a small British force defended the Rock against the Spanish and the French who were determined take this strategically vital point guarding the entrance to the Mediterranean. The tenacity and endurance shown by the attackers and...
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, the...
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, the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2005. — 224 p. Many books have been written about the 1st Duke of Marlborough's famous victories, but none of the previous studies has really concentrated on how the warfare was perceived by the men and women who took part - those who experienced the action at first hand. James Falkner has brought together a vivid selection of contemporary accounts of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2005. — 224 p. Many books have been written about the 1st Duke of Marlborough's famous victories, but none of the previous studies has really concentrated on how the warfare was perceived by the men and women who took part - those who experienced the action at first hand. James Falkner has brought together a vivid selection of contemporary accounts of...
Casemate Publishers, 2011. — 255 p. Sebastien Le Prestre, Marshal Vauban, was one of the greatest military engineers of all time. His complex, highly sophisticated fortress designs, his advanced theories for the defense and attack of fortified places, and his prolific work as a writer and radical thinker on military and social affairs, mark him out as one of the most...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 232 p. Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carignan (1663-1736), French born of an Italian mother, was destined for the church, but fled France as a young man and chose the life of a soldier. He entered the service of the Habsburg Emperor Leopold I in 1683 and rose rapidly to become one of the greatest military commanders of the age, playing a leading role in...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 232 p. Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carignan (1663-1736), French born of an Italian mother, was destined for the church, but fled France as a young man and chose the life of a soldier. He entered the service of the Habsburg Emperor Leopold I in 1683 and rose rapidly to become one of the greatest military commanders of the age, playing a leading role in...
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, 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, 2019. — 224 p. The Battle of Fontenoy marked a turning point in the War of the Austrian Succession, yet it has rarely been analyzed in depth and the Europe-wide conflict in which it played a part is little understood. James Falkner, in this perceptive and original account, puts the record straight by describing the fighting in graphic detail and setting...
Pen and Sword Military, 2016. — 280 p. The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and is little understood. That is why the publication of James...
Pen and Sword Military, 2016. — 280 p. The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and is little understood. That is why the publication of James...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 301 p. The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented scale, stretching across most of western Europe, the high seas and the Americas. Yet this major subject is not well known and is little understood. That is why the publication of James...
Hodder Education, 2011. — 241 p. This title covers the military experience of warfare in Britain and the social and political effects that had in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines major questions such as: - What was the impact of the Crimean War? - What was the impact of the Second Boer War? - What was the experience of war on the Western Front? -...
Good Press, 2020. — 252 p. The briefly regimental records of the British Army. A historical resume chronologically arranged of titles, battles and campaigns, honours, uniforms, facings, badges, nicknames, etc. (1901). This book, "The regimental records of the British Army," by John Stephen Farmer, is a modern replication of a old book originally published in 1901.
Endeavour Press, 2016. — 479 p. General Sir Hubert Gough is no exception. Some thought him callous, a butcher among generals, while many believed him unusually considerate, thoughtful of his soldiers within the demands of war. First gazetted in 1889, Gough’s military career spans the bridge between the Imperial conflicts of late-Victorian rule and the modern warfare ushered in...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 489 p. Iran’s complex, violent military history encompasses two world wars, foreign intervention, anti-government revolts, border disputes, a revolution, a war against Iraq that lasted over eight years, and its desperate quest to become a nuclear power.Following his award-winning book, Shadows in the Desert, which explored the military history of...
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...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 440 p. The Ottoman Sultan called for a "Great Jihad" against the Entente powers at the start of the First World War. He was building on half a century of conflict between British colonialism and the people of the Middle East and North Africa. Resistance to Western violence increasingly took the form of radical Islamic insurgency. Ranging from the...
Yale University Press, 2021. — 440 p. The Ottoman Sultan called for a "Great Jihad" against the Entente powers at the start of the First World War. He was building on half a century of conflict between British colonialism and the people of the Middle East and North Africa. Resistance to Western violence increasingly took the form of radical Islamic insurgency. Ranging from the...
David and Charles, 1973. — 223 p. A fine book taking up 45 Victorian colonial military campaigns from 1837 to 1901. An into. on the Victorian soldier and his weapons is followed by chapters each of 2-4 pages describing certain battles. Forces involved, strategies, commanders, and outcome of battles are packed in laconic passages. 79 maps provide detail on terrain, and forces'...
Blandford, 1993. — 161 p. This is more than a coffee-table book, in spite of being heavily illustrated. Contents include: The Sindh War 1843, the Sikh Wars 1845-1846, the Gwalior War, and a graphic account of the Indian Mutiny (1857-1858). Mr Featherstone is already well-known in his wargaming world as a capable author and perhaps best on the nineteenth century. The angle of...
Dundurn Press, 2014. — 192 p. From the Battle of Chippawa to Lundy’s Lane, A Crucible of Fire focuses on the period of the War of 1812 leading up to the siege on Fort Erie in September 1814. Following their invasion at Fort Erie and decisive victory at the Battle of Chippawa, an American army of over 5,000 men seemed poised to sweep across the Niagara frontier to Lake Ontario,...
Dundurn Press, 2014. — 224 p. The end of the War of 1812 brought with it great political, economic, and social upheaval. The sixth and final book of the Upper Canada Preserved — War of 1812 series, The Ashes of War examines in detail the closing stages of the war on the Northern Frontier, including the two-month siege of Fort Erie, the engagement at Cook's Mills, the American...
Dundurn, 2014. — 131 p. Throughout 1812 and 1813, Upper Canada had been the principle target for a succession of American invasions and attacks. Fortunately they all had been repulsed, but at a high cost in lives and the devastation of property on both sides of the border. By the beginning of 1814, both sides were determined to bring the war to an end with a decisive victory...
Pen and Sword Books, 2016. — 256 p. The Franco-Prussian War was a turning point in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, and the Battle of Sedan was the pivotal event in that war. For the Germans their overwhelming victory symbolized the birth of their nation, forged in steel and tempered in the blood of the common enemy. For the French it was a defeat more complete and...
Vintage, 2017. — 464 p. At the time the first shots were fired at Lexington and Concord the American colonists had little chance, if any, of militarily defeating the British. The nascent American nation had no navy, little in the way of artillery, and a militia bereft even of gunpowder. In his detailed accounts Larrie Ferreiro shows that without the extensive military and...
VWGÖ, 1988. — 372 p. This book examines the military administration of the Ottoman army during the series of military campaigns which were conducted annually against the Habsburgs in Hungary between 1593 and 1606. In 1526 the Ottoman army under Suleyman the Magnificent beat the Hungarian army at the battle of Mohacs, resulting in a power struggle between the Ottomans and the...
Science Museum, 2005. — 192 p. — (Artefacts: Studies in the History of Science and Technology). This work is a part of the series named "Artefacts" associated with London's Science Museum, whose editors "encourage authors to use objects as evidence for their studies of the military history of science and technology." The eleven chapters of this volume were written by authors...
Methuen, 2016. — 507 p. This is a marvelous work. As he explores his hypothesis, Firth skillfully and in depth explores the history of the Tudor and Elizabethan armies, judging them close to useless, more worshipers of Bacchus, not Mars. While during this period and the early years of Stuart rule a number of English officers went abroad as mercenaries and thus had good...
Brill, 2019. — 326 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 126). The World of the Siege examines relations between the conduct and representations of early modern sieges. The volume offers case studies from various regions in Europe (England, France, the Low Countries, Germany, the Balkans) and throughout the world (the Chinese, Ottoman and Mughal Empires), from the 15th century into...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 400 p. The Military Revolution and Revolutions in Military Affairs updates two central debates in military history - the one surrounding the concept of military revolution, and the one on military affairs - whilst advancing original research in both fields. Only a handful of publications consider the military revolution and the RMA in tandem. This book...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 470 p. The Military Revolution and Revolutions in Military Affairs updates two central debates in military history - the one surrounding the concept of military revolution, and the one on military affairs - whilst advancing original research in both fields. Only a handful of publications consider the military revolution and the RMA in tandem. This book...
Routledge, 2001. — 401 p. — (Warfare and History). English Warfare 1511-1642 chronicles and analyses military operations from the reign of Henry VIII to the outbreak of the Civil War. The Tudor and Stuart periods laid the foundations of modern English military power. Henry VIII's expeditions, the Elizabethan contest with Catholic Europe, and the subsequent commitment of English...
Cooper Square Press, 2001. — 269 p. Author Fitz-Enz researched and produced a PBS documentary that examined the leaders on both sides of the conflict and their actions during the battle. His research brought to light numerous documents, including diaries and secret battle orders, that reveal new insights into the battle. His descriptions of the confrontation in the pages of The...
New Island Books, 2015. — 440 p. As the Williamite troops began to gain a foothold in the street beyond the breach, the Jacobite soldiers rushed out from cover and crashed into them. The most furious and cruel hand-to-hand fighting of the war began. For almost four hours men punched and clubbed and wrestled and stabbed each other, and a few square yards of Limerick city...
Luca Cristini Editore, 2024. — 72 p. Following from Volume I on uniforms, badges and rank insignia for 18th Century Turkish and other European Janissary, Volume II looks at Janissary organization and tactics used in battle by the Turkish Kapikulu Ocaklari [Kapikulu Akerleri]: Standing Army, from the later 18th Century to the Napoleonic era, and the traditional Artillery, Miners...
Luca Cristini Editore, 2024. — 70 p. This book looks at the ranks, badges and uniforms worn by Turkish, and other European Janissary in the 18th Century. The follow-on Volume II of this book looks at Janissary organization and battle tactics of the Turkish Kapikulu Ocaklari [Kapikulu Akerleri]: Standing Army, from the later 18th Century to the Napoleonic era. Volume II also...
Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop), 2023. — 82 p. — (Soldiers & Weapons 050) A hallmark of late 18th Century Turkish style of warfare was an initial attack by thousands of massed Cavalry as the main offensive force on the battlefield. Regarded as the best in Europe, and feared with some justification for their sword mastery and valor in battle, European tactics changed in the...
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. Debut of the Levend Chiftlik Regiment in 1799, during the French siege of Acre, and in the...
Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop), 2021. — 90 p. — (Soldiers & Weapons 038) The Anglo-French-Ottoman Siege of Sevastopol, the Russian Naval Base in the Crimean, had been underway since October 1854. It had begun with the French and British landing at Eupatoria on 14 September 1854. The late joining of the Sardinian Expeditionary Corps (entering the war against Russia, on 26...
Luca Cristini Editore, 2025. — 98 p. This volume looks at the Turkish Imperial, and Egyptian Army Cavalry from the 1870s till after the First World War. From 1879, there was introduction of a set of standardized and regulated uniforms and insignia, and the Turkish Cavalry consisted of its Dragoon and Lancer, Hamidiye, and Mounted Gendarme Regiments. This volume then looks at...
Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop), 2023. — 102 p. — (Soldiers & Weapons 045) This book looks at the development and organization of Turkish Army, Navy and Police uniforms from 1826 till the early 1850s. In 1826, use of Janissary as the main Soldier-type ended and new Soldiers were uniformed, organized, equipped and trained according to a European Model Army design. In 1826,...
Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop), 2022. — 88 p. — (Soldiers & Weapons 042) This book looks at the Turkish Army and Navy during the Era of Sultan Abdulaziz, the 32nd Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who reigned between 25 June 1861 and 30 May 1876. The Army and Navy changed its appearance substantially, from the Crimean War Period. The most notable of the 1861 Era changes was...
Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop), 2021. — 80 p. — (Soldiers & Weapons 040) Volume 1: Turkish Army uniforms in the Crimean War Period, and Volume 2, which covers the Turkish Navy, the Contingents, Additional Cavalry Units and the Romanian Army, both acknowledge as its key source of information, the research by Charles A. Norman, a well-known British military artist and...
Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop), 2021. — 74 p. — (Soldiers & Weapons 041) Volume 2, which covers the Turkish Navy, the Contingents, Additional Cavalry Units and the Romanian Army, both acknowledge as its key source of information, the research by Charles A. Norman, a well-known British military artist and researcher. Norman’s work transliterated original observations,...
Liveright, 2021. — 288 p. Finally revealing the family's indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe Dynasty recasts the British side of the American Revolution. In December 1774, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe, the sister of British General Sir William Howe and Richard Admiral Lord Howe, in a London drawing room for "half a dozen Games of Chess."...
I.B. Tauris, 2012. — 308 p. The British invasion of Tibet in 1904 is one of the strangest events in British imperial history. Conceived by Lord Curzon as a strategic move in the Great Game - that colossal struggle between Imperial Britain and Tsarist Russia for influence in Central Asia - the incursion was in fact ill-conceived and inspired by only the weakest of motivations....
Da Capo Press, 2017. — 310 p. Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost their war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. The embryo nation narrowly escaped from the disastrous results of these misconceptions thanks to the levelheaded intelligence of one man: General George Washington. Following the flush of small victories in 1775,...
I.B. Tauris, 2018. — 256 p. In September 1857, a member of a religious sect killed himself on hearing the news that the object of his devout observance, Nikal Seyn, had died. Nikal Seyn was, in fact, Brigadier John Nicholson, the leader of the British assault that recovered Delhi at the turning-point of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. What was it about Nicholson that prompted...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 121 p. London was the critical location throughout the English Civil Wars - a fact that has been emphasised by countless historians, with some going as far to say that by fleeing his capital in January 1642, King Charles I lost the war several months before the fighting actually started. Most studies focus on London as the political and economic...
Brill, 2019. — 579 p. In The Battle for Central Europe the best specialists of the respective fields give a comprehensive overview of the Ottoman-Habsburg imperial military rivalry in Central Europe in the age of Süleyman the Magnificent. The discovery has rekindled interest among scholars in the campaign that resulted in the capture of Szigetvár, the demise of its commander,...
Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2015. — 175 p. The first consideration relates to the nature and operative mode of Ottoman politics and warfare. More than ever, I share the view that Hungary in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries came to occupy a special place in Ottoman policy and imagination. Hungary assumed the status of archenemy of...
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1896. — 416 p. Второй том (выпуск) классической многотомной работы посвящен детальному иллюстрированному описанию более 30 значительных и важных сражений 19-го века в ходе самых различных военных конфликтов и кампаний. По хронологии в этом томе сражения следуют от морской битвы адмирала Нельсона у Копенгагена (в апреле 1801 года) до знаменитого...
W. Paterson, 1882. — 300 p. The Garde Écossaise (Scots Guard) was an elite Scottish military unit founded in 1418 by the Valois Charles VII of France, to be personal bodyguards to the French monarchy. They were assimilated into the Maison du Roi and later formed the first company of the Garde du Corps du Roi (Royal Bodyguard). In 1450, King James II sent a company of 24 noble...
W. Paterson, 1882. — 288 p. The Garde Écossaise (Scots Guard) was an elite Scottish military unit founded in 1418 by the Valois Charles VII of France, to be personal bodyguards to the French monarchy. They were assimilated into the Maison du Roi and later formed the first company of the Garde du Corps du Roi (Royal Bodyguard). In 1450, King James II sent a company of 24 noble...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 720 p. On the Road to Total War is a collection of essays that attempts to trace the roots and development of total industrialized warfare (which terrorizes citizens and soldiers alike). International scholars focus on the social, political, economic, and cultural aspects and on the societal impacts of the American Civil War and the German...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2011. — 160 p. The four lectures comprised within this volume have been printed at the request of some of the officers or the Staff College and Cavalry School, to whom they were delivered in November 1904. Though, from the nature of the subject, there is some repetition in the third and fourth lectures of matter brought forward in the two first, I...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2013. — 545 p. Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life’s work “The History of the British Army”, issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large...
Spellmount, 2014. — 439 p. The Battle of Waterloo (1815) is a defining moment in European history that has been immortalized in literature and art for generations. This is the first book to trace how perceptions and commemorations of it have changed over two centuries. It also delves into the legacy of the man behind the victory. Depictions of Wellington, the victor of Waterloo,...
Helion and Company. 2020 — 233 p. In 1549, two major rebellions and several minor uprising occurred spontaneously throughout England. In East Anglia, Robert Kett, aggrieved at the abuses of enclosure, laid siege to Norwich until defeated by Royal forces at the bloody battle of Dussindale. At the same time, thousands of commoners of Devon and Cornwall rose up against 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 either...
The History Press, 2007. — 272 p. The use of rockets as weapons can be traced back to 13th century China. The emerging British Empire first came into contact with rockets as weapons during the Mahratta Wars in 1799, and their effect was such as to cause the East Indian Company great concern and to seek their own supply. In Europe, Britain was at war with France and the French...
Helion Company, 2019. — 254 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. В книге описывается и анализируется Сконская война, которая велась с 1675 по 1679 год между, с одной стороны, в первую очередь Бранденбургом и Данией-Норвегией, а с другой — Швецией. Война велась в основном в Сконе, бывших датских землях вдоль границы со Швецией, и на севере Германии. Целью датчан было вернуть...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 350 p. — ( Century of the Soldier 1618-1721). Tokugawa Ieyasu’s decisive victory at Sekigahara in 1600 concluded the civil wars, confirmed his position of military supremacy as shōgun (generalissimo) of Japan, and inaugurated the Edo period (1600–1868), so named because Ieyasu after the battle established his capital in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). By...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 187 p. — ( Century of the Soldier 1618-1721). Tokugawa Ieyasu’s decisive victory at Sekigahara in 1600 concluded the civil wars, confirmed his position of military supremacy as shôgun (generalissimo) of Japan, and inaugurated the Edo period (1600–1868), so named because Ieyasu after the battle established his capital in Edo (modern-day Tokyo). By...
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...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 79 p. — (Essential Histories). In the mid-19th century India was the focus of Britain’s international prestige and commercial power - the most important colony in an empire which extended to every continent on the globe and protected by the seemingly dependable native armies of the East India Company. When, however, in 1857 discontent exploded into...
Osprey Publishing, 2022. — 145 p. Dr Gregory Fremont-Barnes presents a detailed overview of the Forty-five Rebellion, dispelling the myths that have grown up around battles like Culloden and the figures of the Highlanders. Led by the charismatic Bonnie Prince Charlie and fought in the main by clansmen loyal to the Stuarts, the revolt initially saw government forces...
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, private...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 336 p. This is the first detailed analysis of the combat capability of the British army in the Second World War. It sweeps away the myth that the army suffered from poor morale, and that it only won its battles through the use of 'brute force' and by reverting to the techniques of the First World War. Few soldiers were actively eager to close with...
Foundry, 2006. — 178 p. Of all the military campaigns fought by the British during the 19th century, no area saw more conflict than the subcontinent of India. Dozens of encounters, both great and small, involved many of its races as either friends or foes of Britain – indeed, it was not unusual for an area to furnish both ally and enemy at the same time! This volume covers the...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2020. — 224 p. Frey's concise and readable history of the Indian Rebellion is an excellent introduction to one of the most important wars of the nineteenth century. The rebellion lasted more than a year and pitted broad sections of north Indian society against the British East India Company. British victory consolidated colonial rule that would only...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2020. — 224 p. Frey's concise and readable history of the Indian Rebellion is an excellent introduction to one of the most important wars of the nineteenth century. The rebellion lasted more than a year and pitted broad sections of north Indian society against the British East India Company. British victory consolidated colonial rule that would only...
University of Texas Press, 2012. — 224 p. In her investigation of the social history of the common British soldier in the era of the American Revolution, Sylvia Frey has extensively surveyed recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs in an attempt to provide insight into the soldier's "life and mind." In the process she has discovered more about...
Pearson Education Limited, 2000. — 416 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 and Poland...
Pearson Education Limited, 2000. — 416 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 and...
Dundurn Press, 1996. — 254 p. Born on the Isle of Mull to an impoverished lair of the clan Maclean, young Allan fought his first battle -- for Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden -- from a sense of deep conviction and family loyalty. He fled into exile when the Stuart cause was lost. In Holland he became a mercenary, and after amnesty was granted for Jacobites, he joined the...
Dundurn Press, 1986. — 280 p. Battlefields of Canada encompasses nearly 300 years of history and features sixteen of the most significant Canadian battles as well as some of the most comic or bizarre. Profusely illustrated with sketches, photographs, and detailed maps, each chapter sets the context of the battle in terms of the struggle of which it was part, and then describes...
Dundurn Press, 2013. — 157 p. Celebrated as the saviour of Upper Canada, Major General Sir Isaac Brock was a charismatic leader who won the respect not only of his own troops, but also of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh and even men among his enemy. His motto could well have been 'speak loud and look big.' Although this attitude earned him a reputation for brashness, it also enabled...
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 Hill...
Da Capo Press, 1987. — 572 p. Major General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and historians. In this magisterial work he spans military history from the Greeks to the end of World War II, describing tactics, battle lines, the day-to-day struggles while always relating affairs on the...
Da Capo Press, 1987. — 678 p. Major General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and historians. In this magisterial work he spans military history from the Greeks to the end of World War II, describing tactics, battle lines, the day-to-day struggles while always relating affairs on the...
Routledge, 1961. — 355 p. The Conduct of War is the study of the way in which political and economical changes since the French Revolution have altered both the techniques and the aims of war, and its theme is that war which is not fought in pursuance of a clear feasible policy will always end in disaster. Fuller begins by examining the limited wars that were possible in the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 334 p. Who were the shadow agents of Renaissance war? In this pioneering collection of essays scholars use new archival evidence and other sources, including literature, artworks, and other non-textual material, to uncover those men, women, children and other animals who sustained war by means of their preparatory, auxiliary, infrastructural,...
Hachette Books, 2009. — 218 p. In Brooklyn, New York, for a few tense hours in 1776, the fate of the entire United States hung by a thread. The Battle of Brooklyn (sometimes called "The Battle of Long Island") has since come to be recognized as one of history's great battles. It was the largest clash of the Revolution, in terms of both troops and casualties, and it brought the...
Routledge, 2015. — 856 p. First published in 1996, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference resource that pulls together a vast amount of material on a rich historical era, presenting it in a balanced way that offers hard-to-find facts and detailed information. The volume was the first encyclopedic account of the United States' colonial military experience. It features...
Penguin Books, 2009. — 424 p. Two bloody wars––the 1857 Revolt in PBI - India and the American Civil War 1861-1865 — seemingly fought for very different reasons, occurred at opposite ends of the globe in the middle of the nineteenth century. But they were both fought in a PBI - World still dominated by Great Britain and the battle cry in both conflicts was freedom.
Almena Liberia Editorial, 2022. — 76 p. — (Guerreros y batallas - 146) Volume 146 of the series "Guerreros y Batallas" describes the background, course and consequences of the siege of the Tuscan town of Orbetello by a French army and the naval battle between a French and a Spanish fleet that resulted from the siege. The naval battle off Orbetello was unusual in that it was...
Centro Geografico del Ejercito, 2014. — 65 p. Обзорная работа испанских авторов посвящена краткой истории полков испанской пехоты (терций) в 16-17 веках. В книге рассматривается боевая история терций этого периода, их виды, командование и кадровый состав, вооружение, организационная структура. Работа снабжена большим количеством иллюстраций.
Pineapple Press, 2021. — 150 p. Cathedrals of War tells the story of Florida’s coastal fortifications from Amelia Island on the Florida/Georgia border, to Key West, the Dry Tortugas, an atoll midway between Key West and Havana, Cuba and Pensacola on Florida’s west coast. Covering the colonial era to the Civil War to the late 1880s, this book explains the specific locations,...
Zeughaus Verlag GmbH, 2011. — 75 p. — (Heere und Waffen 15). Das Königreich Bayern stellte während der Napoleonischen Zeit unter den deutschen verbündeten Staaten mit 30.000 Soldaten das größte Kontingent, das aufgrund dieser Größe entscheidende Kämpfe in den Feldzügen von 1809 und 1812 führte. Die Autoren legen mit diesem Buch ein umfassendes Werk über die Organisation des...
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...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 352 p. The literature of the Peninsular War is rich with vivid source material -letters, diaries, memoirs, and dispatches -but most of it was written by British soldiers or by the French and their allies. As a result the history and experience of the Portuguese forces -which by 1812 composed close to half of Wellington's Army -have been seriously...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 408 p. In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed like violent flowers for nearly a hundred years, from the War of Spanish Succession (sometimes known as Queen Anne's War in the Americas), culminating in the War of Jenkins'...
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. Time line Introduction: An English or a British Civil War? Prelude to Conflict?:...
Almena Ediciones, 2007. — 81 p. Pocas representaciones de hechos de armas han alcanzado una fama comparable a “Las Lanzas”, el cuadro de Velázquez que evoca la rendición de la ciudad de Breda. Por contra, la bibliografía sobre este asedio dista de ser abundante. En este libro el autor nos desvela las claves de este éxito, así como un repaso por la denominada “Tregua de los Doce...
Little, Brown, 2005. — 384 p. The Siege of Derry is one of the key flash points in the troubled history of Ireland and Britain. In 1688 William of Orange had claimed the English throne, forcing the catholic James II to flee to Ireland. From there he hoped to mount his comeback. In December of that year James' troops attempted to take over the protestant city of Derry. To the...
Helion and Company. 2018 — 129 p. The Dutch Republic was one of the great European powers during the 17th and 18th Centuries. Generally, the Dutch Republic was considered to have lost that status after the 1713 Peace of Utrecht; however, when the Republic entered the War of Austrian Succession in 1740, it was able to field an army of over 80,000 men. This expanded to over...
Helion Company, 2019. — 129 p. The Dutch Republic was one of the great European powers during the 17th and 18th centuries. Generally, the Dutch Republic was considered to have lost that status after the Peace of Utrecht (1713); however, when the Republic entered the War of Austrian Succession in 1740, it was able to field an army for over 80,000 men, which expanded to over...
Helion and Company. 2018 — 449 p. In 1799, as part of the Second Coalition against France, an Anglo-Russian army landed in Holland to overthrow the Batavian Republic and to reinstate the Stadtholder William V of Orange. Initially called ‘The Secret Expedition’, although not really a secret for both sides, the description of the invasion reads like a novel. Five major battles...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 41 p. Coalition warfare is an important area of military study for today. During the War of the Spanish Succession, the Duke of Marlborough successfully led a coalition of over twenty nations and states against the armies of Louis XIV of France. During the war, he waged ten campaigns applying military brilliance to defeat French military...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 250 p. Perhaps it was inevitable that, in addition to domestic difficulties, there would in time be frictions between China and the major foreign powers, two in particular. First there was Russia, on the other side of the empire’s long and indistinct northern frontiers, but pushing southwards as well as eastwards towards what is now Siberia. In...
Bellona, 1995. — 127 p. The Battle of the Yalu (Jalu) River was the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War, and took place on 17 September 1894, the day after the Japanese victory at the land Battle of Pyongyang. It involved ships from the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Chinese Beiyang Fleet. The battle is also known by a variety of names: Battle of Haiyang...
Z przedmową Szymona Askenazego. — Warszawa : Gebethner i Wolff; Kraków: G. Gebethner i Sp., 1903. —XV + 192 + XXV s. Ta bogata w ilustracje praca przedstawia całą strukturę Wojska Polskiego z czasów Królestwa Polskiego. Dzieło bogato ilustrowane rycinami i akwarelami autora, daje przegląd rozwoju wojska polskiego w latach 1815-1830. Autor opisał poszczególne rodzaje wojsk i...
Z przedmową Szymona Askenazego. — Warszawa : Gebethner i Wolff; Kraków: G. Gebethner i Sp., 1905. — XII + 362 + LIII s. Ta bogata w ilustracje praca przedstawia całą strukturę Wojska Polskiego z czasów Księstwa Warszawskiego. Dzieło bogato ilustrowane rycinami i akwarelami autora, daje przegląd rozwoju wojska polskiego w latach 1807-1814.
Napoleon V, 2017. — 84 s. Nowe wydanie pracy Bronisława Gembarzewskiego. Album zawiera szczegółowe opisy i wiele kolorowych, profesjonalnie wykonanych ilustracji, dzięki którym czytelnik może podziwiać potęgę husarii. Na poziom jej wartości bojowej miało wpływ wiele czynników, między innymi zaprezentowane tutaj uzbrojenie i oporządzenie. Autor omawia poszczególne rodzaje broni,...
Warszawa : Drukprasa, 1939. — 74 s. Polska husaria przez długi okres była gwarantem wielkości i niepodległości państwa. Na poziom jej wartości bojowej miało wpływ wiele czynników, między innymi uzbrojenie i oporządzenie, które zostały bardzo dokładnie opisane i przedstawione na profesjonalnie wykonanych rysunkach w niniejszej książce. Autor omawia poszczególne rodzaje broni,...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 400 p. The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution. The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ever assembled. Formed in 1645, it was crucial in overthrowing the monarchy and propelling one of its most brilliant generals, Oliver Cromwell, to power during the English Revolution....
Yale University Press, 2022. — 400 p. The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution. The New Model Army was one of the most formidable fighting forces ever assembled. Formed in 1645, it was crucial in overthrowing the monarchy and propelling one of its most brilliant generals, Oliver Cromwell, to power during the English Revolution....
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 392 p. Between 1911 and 1914, the conflicts between Italy and the Ottoman Empire, together with the Balkan wars that followed, transformed European politics. With contributions from leading, international historians, this volume offers a comprehensive account of the wars before the Great War and surveys the impact of these conflicts on...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 190 p. The military organization of nation states and their employment of armies are central aspects of early modern European history. The seventeenth century was particularly a period of transformation that witnessed drastic change in armies' preparation for and execution of military campaigns. To date, historians have tended to overlook...
Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. — 1169 p. According to Gochman and Maoz (1984), the definition of a Militarized Interstate Dispute (or MID) is the threat, display, or use of force by one state against another state. Subsequent iterations of the original 1816 to 1976 data provided by Gochman and Maoz have been amended and extended through 2010 (see Ghosn, Palmer, and Bremer 2004;...
Leo Cooper, 1995. — 259 p. The years between the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 are sometimes described as 'The Long Peace', but there were in fact British soldiers fighting somewhere in the world throughout the whole of that period, usually in an effort to restore order in far-flung parts of the Empire 'upon which the sun never set'....
Walter de Gruyter, 1964. — 633 p. Entstehung und Absicht des Werkes. Die Formationen und ihre Einsätze. Infanterie-Regimenter. Jäger. Füsilier-Bataillone. Kürassier-Regimenter. Dragoner-Regimenter. Husaren-Regimenter. Artillerie. Garnison-Regimenter. Garnison-Land-Regimenter. Frei-Regimenter. Provinzial-Formationen. Ehemals sächsische Regimenter. Der Einsatz der Formationen in...
Pen and Sword Books, 2005. — 256 p. What better way to 'read' the momentous Battle of Waterloo than to follow the movements of the main military commanders on that fateful day (18 June 1815). For the British side of the action, we dog the footsteps, and learn about the decisions and actions of The Duke of Wellington. For the French perspective we follow both Napoleon Bonaparte...
Falcata Ibérica, 2000. — 273 p. Un muy buen libro que nos muestra todas las campañas y batallas que sucedieron en Flandes a finales del siglo XVI y comienzos del XVII usando la cronología de los Generales, Gobernadores, Nuncios y Regentes que pasaron por las provincias del reino de España y dejaron de alguna manera u otra su testimonio. Es un libro puramente militar sobre los...
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.
Helion Company, 2020. — 193 p. By Defeating My Enemies is a military biography of Charles XII of Sweden, the first written in English in over 50 years. It challenges several traditions created by historians of both the old and new schools of Carolean historiography and through a chronological review provides a balanced account of the king’s life. Ample space is dedicated to...
Helion Company, 2020. — 192 p. By Defeating My Enemies is a military biography of Charles XII of Sweden, the first written in English in over 50 years. It challenges several traditions created by historians of both the old and new schools of Carolean historiography and through a chronological review provides a balanced account of the king’s life. Ample space is dedicated to...
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 examine...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 320 p. Gareth Glover, who has established a reputation as a leading authority on the Napoleonic Wars, uses letters sent home from the Peninsular War by British soldiers to give a candid account of what it was like to serve in the army during the long campaign against the French. The vivid excerpts, which are set in their historical context by the...
Littlehampton Book Services, 1980. — 258 p. This volume of ihe History of Warfare covers the period between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the outbreak of the Great (or First World) War. Thus, in a strict interpretation, Waterloo and Mons lie outside its scope. Nevertheless I have included both as prologue and epilogue respectively. In neither have I attempted a...
Leiden: Brill, 2004. — 290 p. — (History of Warfare. Volume 24). 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...
Swan Sonneschein, 1907. — 232 p. Austro-Prussian War or The Seven Weeks' War (1866) was Part of the wars of German unification, the main campaign of the war occurred in Bohemia. Prussian Chief of General Staff Helmuth von Moltke had planned meticulously for the war. He rapidly mobilised the Prussian Army and advanced across the border into Saxony and Bohemia, where the Austrian...
G. Braun'schen Hofbuchhandlung, 1880. — 190 p. The Battle of Wimpfen was a battle in the Bohemian Revolt period of the Thirty Years' War on 6 May 1622 near Wimpfen. The combined forces of the Catholic League and the Spanish Empire under Marshal Tilly and Gonzalo de Córdoba defeated the Protestant forces of Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1983. — 310 p. How did an ambitious British army officer advance his career in mid–eighteenth–century North America? What was the nature of political opportunism in an imperial system encompassing an old world and a new? This study examines the career of an Anglo–Irish–Acadian army officer, treating in considerable detail the network of...
Createspace Independent Pub., 2014. — 360 p. — (Emory Endeavors in History, Vol. 5). Spanning continents, from Japan and the Korean peninsula, across Asia to Europe and the Americas, this volume of Emory Endeavors in History focuses on the role gunpowder technology and its diffusion played in the great divergence between the East and the West. It joins in the conversation...
Dnyanganga Prakashan, 2020. — 300 p. From the days of Chhatrapati Shivaji, to the fall of the Maratha Empire nearly two centuries later, the Marathas fought many important and pivotal battles. These battles and campaigns heralded important and game changing political and social change. This book attempts to throw a light on some of these significant military encounters, which...
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 apparatus....
Brill, 2009. — 425 p. — (History of Warfare 52). “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...
Springer Netherlands, 1959. — 289 p. This book is based on published correspondence. Thus it stands in debt to the scores of persons who have edited and selected the material referred to in the notes as well as to the authors of the letters themselves. Literal translation from the French has been this writer's responsibility. The research was done in library collections at the...
Routledge, 2015. — 380 p. This book’s contribution to the discussion on the origin’s of the First World War is a pioneering study of both the British General Staff and the evolution of military strategy in the period immediately prior to the war. It describes the development of the General Staff, Britain’s agency for strategic planning, and goes on to give an account of its...
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 the...
Bokförlaget Bra Böcker, 1994. — 323 p. Efter tio års forskarmöda och tecknande kom boken om Gustav II Adolf och hans folk år 1994. I boken tar Göte med oss på en resa genom det tidiga 1600-talet. Det sparas inte på detaljerna. Fanor, vapen, olika typer av redskap, fartyg och annat återfinns i det rikliga bildmaterialet. Över drygt 30 sidor marscherar den svenska armén fram med...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 298 p. Military life began at an early age in Victorian times; Richard Fortescue Purvis was a midshipman in the Royal Navy at age 11, and by age 15, he was an officer in the Bengal Army. For all of Purvis' 17-year career, Indian units were officially under the East India Company and not controlled by the British government, but the drill, tactics...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 255 p. Analysing three cases of British colonial violence that occurred in the latter half of the 19th century, this book argues that all three share commonalities, including the role of racial prejudices in justifying the perpetration of extreme colonial violence. Exploring the connections and comparisons between the Perak War (1875–1876), the 'Hut...
Kraków, Księgarnia Spółka Wydawnicza Polska, 1893. — 276 s. Przede wszystkim to synteza wyników rozległych badań archiwaliów dziś już w dużej mierze nie istniejących jednego ze współtwórców polskiej historiografii wojskowości. Konstanty Górski przedsatwia tutaj rozwój organizacji, uzbrojenia i taktyki walki wojsk pieszych w Polsce w latach 1410-1792, piechoty węgiersko-polskiej...
Nakł. Księg. Spółki Wydawniczej Polskeij, 1893. — 271 p. Z zasiłkiem Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie. Piechota cudzoziemskiego autoramentu Piechota cudzoziemska za panowania Sasów z 2 tablicami litografowanemi Piechota za czasów Batorego Piechota polska od końca XV wieku do Batorego Piechota za czasów Sejmu Czteroletniego Piechota za panowania Stanisława Augusta Piechota...
Endeavour Press, 2017. — 479 p. Gurkhas have been recruited into the British and Indian armies since 1815 - the year the East India Company went to war with Nepal. Over nearly 200 years these soldiers from the foothills of the Himalayas have become a byword for courage, endurance and loyalty. In this study, Tony Gould examines the many legends that have grown up around them and...
Sydney: UNSW Press, 2005. 310 p. В годы Первой мировой войны свыше тысячи уроженцев Российской Империи оказались в рядах Австралийской армии. Это были люди волей судьбы оказавшиеся в то нелёгкое время на территории Австралии и Новой Зеландии. Как российские подданые эти люди были включены в состав вооруженных сил союзников - которые называли себя анзаками (Australian New Zealand...
Tallandier, 2014. — 474 p. Fonctionnant comme une armée du XIXe siècle en 1914, l’armée française est devenue en 1918 la plus moderne au monde. Comment et grâce à qui une telle évolution fut-elle possible ? Une génération d’officiers, humiliés par la défaite de 1870, s’est efforcée de préparer scientifiquement la guerre. En vain. En 1914, c’est en pantalon rouge et avec des...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 248 p. Justin MacCarthy (later Lord Mountcashel) was born into a notable family of Irish Jacobites, loyal to the exiled Stuarts, and grew up in France. Their Irish land was regained after the Restoration of Charles II but Justin, as the youngest surviving son, sought a career in the French army (as both his father and oldest brother had done). In...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 248 p. Justin MacCarthy (later Lord Mountcashel) was born into a notable family of Irish Jacobites, loyal to the exiled Stuarts, and grew up in France. Their Irish land was regained after the Restoration of Charles II but Justin, as the youngest surviving son, sought a career in the French army (as both his father and oldest brother had done). In...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 488 p. Irish troops had fought for Louis XIV in the 1670s, under Irish officers who had little choice but to fight in foreign service, with the blessing of Charles II. With the accession of James II, and the religious politics of who might earn the English crown, they became embroiled in the Jacobite succession crisis, fighting in Ireland, then...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 488 p. Irish troops had fought for Louis XIV in the 1670s, under Irish officers who had little choice but to fight in foreign service, with the blessing of Charles II. With the accession of James II, and the religious politics of who might earn the English crown, they became embroiled in the Jacobite succession crisis, fighting in Ireland, then...
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...
Pen and Sword Books, 2015. — 255 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...
Revised Edition. — Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 234 p. Although also known as the Third English Civil War, the author makes it clear that this was the last war between the Scots and English as separate states. He narrates in detail the the events following the exiled King Charles II’s landing in Scotland and his alliance with the Scots Covenanters, erstwhile allies of the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 304 p. Samuel Auchmuty was born in New York in 1756\. During the American Revolution his remained loyal to King George and he joined the British 45th Foot in 1777. After the war he remained in British service, campaigned in many parts of the world and rose through the ranks. Despite a varied and distinguished career he has not received the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2018. — 304 p. Samuel Auchmuty was born in New York in 1756. During the American Revolution his remained loyal to King George and he joined the British 45th Foot in 1777. After the war he remained in British service, campaigned in many parts of the world and rose through the ranks. Despite a varied and distinguished career he has not received the...
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...
Boydell Press, 2008. — 224 p. The `Crimean War' was much more than a series of battles in the Crimea. One of the most neglected aspects has been the naval campaign in the Pacific Ocean - as highlighted in this full-scale survey, which brings out the involvement of China and Japan. The campaign took a joint British and French squadron from Chile to Kamchatka, to be defeated in...
Pen & Sword Military, 2019. — 240 p. Sir Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, is best known for his exceptional military career. He was one of the Duke of Wellington's ablest lieutenants during the Peninsular War - he won a great victory against the French at the Battle of Barrosa, conducted the siege of San Sebastian and acted as the duke's second in command. But he was much more...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 239 p. Sir Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, is best known for his exceptional military career. He was one of the Duke of Wellington's ablest lieutenants during the Peninsular War - he won a great victory against the French at the Battle of Barrosa, conducted the siege of San Sebastian and acted as the duke's second in command. But he was much more...
Dundurn Press, 1994. — 225 p. It's the definitive analysis of the battle of Chippawa (1814). Donald Graves establishes its historical background, describes the opposing armies, brings them into battle, and assesses the results, without wasting a word ― yet his account of the battle combines high colour and exact detail. You find yourself alternately in the generals' boots and...
Casemate Publishers, 2005. — 176 p. The crushing defeat suffered by the British Army by the Zulus at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 is by any standards a gripping and shocking story. The discovery of a complete set of diaries written by a young Royal Artillery officer who was the only survivor of his unit which lost all their guns is a very important find. Not only does this...
Casemate Publishers, 2007. — 255 p. The Anglo Zulu War continues to attract phenomenal interest. What was meant to be a quick punitive expedition led by Lord Chelmsford turned into a watershed for British Colonial power. The ignominious defeat at Iswandhlwana was a terrible blow to British military pride but the heroic stand at Rourke’s Drift, while a minor event by comparison,...
Casemate Publishers, 2007. — 272 p. The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 has a character that inspires and fascinates readers and increasing numbers of visitors to South Africa. The two volume biographical dictionary of the participants is a unique venture and this second volume reveals much about the formidable Zulu nation which so nearly humbled the mighty British Empire which had...
Pen and Sword, 2014. — 222 p. This authoritative, yet hugely readable, book traces the history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa they were not indigenous as were the Koi and San population and the establishment of Zululand. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colourful successors under whose leadership the warrior nation built its fiercesome...
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 the...
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 Isandlwana...
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...
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....
Savas Beatie, 2005. — 528 p. The siege of Yorktown in the fall of 1781 was the single most decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The campaign has all the drama any historian or student could want: the war's top generals and admirals pitted against one another; decisive naval engagements; cavalry fighting; siege warfare; night bayonet attacks; and much more. Until now,...
The History Press, 2015. — 496 p. From humble Glasgow beginnings, Colin Campbell (1792-1863) rose to become Scotland's finest general and a favourite of Queen Victoria. In his fifty-year career he fought through the Peninsula, the Crimea, China and India, and still found time to contain a slave revolt, a Chartist revolution and Ireland's Tithe War. Through a combination of...
Pen & Sword Military, 2013. — 232 p. By the winter of 1810-11, the armies of Napoleon had overrun most of Spain and Joseph Bonaparte sat on the throne in Madrid. Yet the Spanish Government had found refuge in the fortress-port of Cadiz and the Spaniards refused to admit that they had been conquered. With a British army under Sir Thomas Graham helping to defend Cadiz, the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 224 p. By the winter of 1810-1811, the armies of Napoleon had overrun most of Spain and Joseph Bonaparte sat on the throne in Madrid. But the Spanish Government had found refuge in the fortress-port of Cadiz and the Spaniards refused to admit that they had been conquered. With a British army under Sir Thomas Graham helping to defend Cadiz, the...
Pen & Sword Military, 2013. — 232 p. By the winter of 1810-11, the armies of Napoleon had overrun most of Spain and Joseph Bonaparte sat on the throne in Madrid. Yet the Spanish Government had found refuge in the fortress-port of Cadiz and the Spaniards refused to admit that they had been conquered. With a British army under Sir Thomas Graham helping to defend Cadiz, the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2014. — 256 p. Fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic, the First Boer War (1880-1881) was a rebellion by the Boers (farmers) against British rule in the Transvaal that reestablished their independence. The engagements that it involved, such as they were, were small and...
Pen & Sword Military, 2014. — 352 p. Fought between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic, the First Boer War (1880–1881) was a rebellion by the Boers (farmers) against British rule in the Transvaal that reestablished their independence. The engagements that it involved, such as they were, were small and...
Frontline Books, 2017. — 256 p. The most notorious, and most contentious, cavalry charge in history still remains an enigma. Though numerous books have been written about the charge, all claiming to ‘reveal the truth’ or to understand ‘the reason why’; exactly what happened at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 continues to be fiercely debated. Voices from the Past, The Charge of the...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. — 287 p. The Far Reaches of Empire chronicles the half century of Anglo-American efforts to establish dominion in Nova Scotia, an important French foothold in the New World. John Grenier examines the conflict of cultures and peoples in the colonial Northeast through the lens of military history as he tells how Britons and Yankees waged a...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 248 p. Well-written, thoroughly researched, and persuasively argued, this work is not about who started what first--leave that to children in the sandbox--, rather it addresses the roots of the American style of warfare. Whatever practices the various Indian nations had in waging war were not as important as the cultural and historical...
Brill, 2021. — 340 p. — (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 54). In the early modern period, images of revolts and violence became increasingly important tools to legitimize or contest political structures. This volume offers the first in-depth analysis of how early modern people produced and consumed violent imagery, and assesses its role in memory...
Leiden: Brill, 2004. — 250 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 22). 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...
Ballantine Books, 2011. — 264 p. The first edition (1981) took a critical look at the accepted wisdom of historians who interpreted battlefield events primarily by reference to firepower. It showed that Wellington's infantry had won by their mobility rather than their musketry, that the bayonet did not become obsolete in the nineteenth century as is often claimed, and that the...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 206 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №58) Rowland Hill was one of the Duke of Wellington’s most trusted subordinates, known for caring deeply for the welfare of his men, but the battles of Arroyomolinos (1811) and Almaraz (1812) show that he was far more than just ‘Daddy Hill’ and a safe pair of hands. He was also a general of considerable...
The History Press, 2016. — 144 p. In the early morning of September 8, 1755, a force of French Regulars, Canadians and Indians crouched unseen in a ravine south of Lake George. Under the command of French general Jean-Armand, Baron de Dieskau, the men ambushed the approaching British forces, sparking a bloody conflict for control of the lake and its access to New York's...
J. Murray, 1910. — 260 p. The ever memorable period in the history of our Eastern Empire known as the Great Indian Rebellion or Mutiny (1857-1858) of the Bengal army was an epoch fraught with the most momentous consequences, and one which resulted in covering with undying fame those who bore part in its suppression. The passions aroused during the struggle, the fierce hate...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2013. — 400 p. When war broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812, Sir George Prevost, captain general and governor in chief of British North America, was responsible for defending a group of North American colonies that stretched as far as the distance from Paris to Moscow. He also commanded one of the largest British overseas...
Goose Lane Editions, 2014. — 212 p. A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military unit from its beginnings in the early days of the 19th century to its disbanding in 1817. Best known for its perilous Winter March through the wilderness of New Brunswick to the battlefields of Upper...
Vintage, 2007. — 336 p. December 1814: its economy in tatters, its capital city of Washington, D.C., burnt to the ground, a young America was again at war with the militarily superior English crown. With an enormous enemy armada approaching New Orleans, two unlikely allies teamed up to repel the British in one of the greatest battles ever fought in North America. The defense of...
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.
Abrams Books, 2022. — 295 p. A dramatic, gripping history of the Siege of Yorktown, the last major battle of the American Revolution, told through vastly different perspectives In October 1781, American, French, and British forces converged on a small village named Yorktown--a place that the British would try to forget and Americans would forever remember. In his riveting,...
University of North Carolina Press, 2010. — 344 p. Historians have long understood that books were important to the British army in defining the duties of its officers, regulating tactics, developing the art of war, and recording the history of campaigns and commanders. Now, in this groundbreaking analysis, Ira D. Gruber identifies which among over nine hundred books on war...
De Gruyter, 2018. — 296 p. I decided to focus my study not on the well-studied German military mission between 1882 and 1918, but rather on the contacts between German and Turkish military members that outlasted the official end of the alliance in 1918. The period of the study covers most of the “Young Turk Era”⁶ between the 1908 revolution and the death of president Mustafa...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 512 p. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary Mexicans and Americans, The Dead March offers a clearer historical picture than we have ever had of the brief, bloody war that redrew the map of North America. Peter Guardino invites skepticism about the received view that the United States emerged victorious in the Mexican-American War...
Aracne, 2020. — 264 p. "Una battaglia europea" lo fu veramente quella combattuta il 20 giugno 1719 a Francavilla di Sicilia. Si affrontarono Austriaci e Spagnoli, ma insieme a loro soldati di varie nazionalità, non esclusi i Siciliani. Il volume raccoglie gli interventi di studiosi italiani ed europei al Convegno internazionale di studi storici, che affrontò - in occasione del...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 365 p. — (From Reason to Revolution, 1721-1815). In mid-July 1789, after the storming of the Bastille, the municipality of Paris organized a Garde Nationale, heir to the militias of the Ancien Régime. Something of a myth, the story of its origins is closely linked to the emblematic figure of the Marquis de La Fayette, its commanding general....
Simon and Schuster, 2021. — 368 p. A dramatic account of the “Punitive Expedition” of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and General John J. Pershing into conflict, and whose reverberations continue in the Southwestern US to this day. Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson, Jim Jones) tells the riveting story of...
Nabu Press, 2012. — 826 p. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG (1769 – 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as Prime Minister. He ended the Napoleonic Wars when he defeated Napoleon at the Battle of...
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,...
Hadimuzeum Alapitvany, 1998. — 68 о. A szerző részletesen bemutatja az 1848-49-es szabadságharc hadseregét, a huszárezrerdek felépítését, szervezetét, a fegyverzetüket, felszerelésüket, öltözetüket, és az egyes huszárezredek történetét. Az angol és német nyelvű összefoglalók mellett számos fotó illusztrálja a történelmi ismeretanyagot.
Routledge, 2006. — 352 p. Colonial armies were the focal points for some of the most dramatic tensions inherent in Chinese, Japanese and Western clashes with Southeast Asia. The international team of scholars take the reader on a compelling exploration from Ming China to the present day, examining their conquests, management and decolonization. The journey covers perennial...
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. — 847 p. — (History of Warfare 16). — ISBN13 9789004129979. — ISBN10 9004129979. Preclassical and indigenous nonwestern military institutions and methods of warfare are the chief subjects of this annotated bibliography of work published 1967 - 1997. Classical antiquity, post-Roman Europe, and the westernized armed forces of the 20th...
Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2012. — 679 p. — (History of Warfare 74). — ISBN10 9004212175. — ISBN13 9789004212176. Military institutions have everywhere and always shaped the course of history, but women’s near universal participation in them has largely gone unnoticed. This volume addresses the changing relationships between women and armed forces from antiquity to the...
The History Press, 2011. — 192 p. The British Isles have witnessed hundreds of battles, both great and small, in their two thousand years of recorded history, but not all are widely remembered today. Many of these battles are well known, due to their far-reaching consequences, their sheer scale or the involvement of famous protagonists. Even so, many battles have never been...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 264 p. The book also reveals a new perspective of Bismarck’s diplomacy beginning shortly after he engineered the Dual Alliance between the two countries in 1879. It demonstrates that as early as 1882 Bismarck became aware that the Austrian army was far weaker than assumed when he concluded the alliance. It was primarily his concern about Austria’s...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. — 273 p. Strategy for Victory: The Development of British Tactical Air Power, 1919-1943 examines the nature of the inter-Service crisis between the British Army and the RAF over the provision of effective air support for the army in the Second World War. Material for this book is drawn primarily from the rich collection of documents at the...
Pike and Shot Society 2005. 232 p. ISBN: 1902768310. Подробное исследование униформы французских кавалерийских частей во время правления Людовика XIV. 62 полноцветные страницы, сопроводительный текст.
Routledge, 2007. — 505 p. The early modern period saw gunpowder weapons reach maturity and become a central feature of European warfare, on land and at sea. This exciting collection of essays brings together a distinguished and varied selection of modern scholarship on the transformation of war”often described as a ’military revolution’”during the period between 1450 and 1660.
Routledge, 2020. — 318 p. European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant examines more than 200 years of international rivalry across Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean rim. The book charts the increasing scale, expenditure and duration of early modern wars; the impact of modern fortification on strategy and the movement of armies; the incidence of...
Routledge, 2020. — 318 p. European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant examines more than 200 years of international rivalry across Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean rim. The book charts the increasing scale, expenditure and duration of early modern wars; the impact of modern fortification on strategy and the movement of armies; the incidence of...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 241 p. Italy 1636 is one of the most closely-researched and detailed books on the operation of early modern armies anywhere and is explicitly inspired by neo-Darwinian thinking. Taking the French and Savoyard invasion of Spanish Lombardy in 1636 as its specific example, it begins with the recruitment of the soldiers, the care and feeding of the...
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, examining...
Routledge, 1998. — 384 p. At a time when most European nations were establishing permanent armies, Italy was pursuing a distinctly different path. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Italian states virtually ceased making war against each other and, with the important exception of the Piedmontese, Italian elites lost interest in military affairs. The Twilight of A...
Routledge, 1998. — 384 p. At a time when most European nations were establishing permanent armies, Italy was pursuing a distinctly different path. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Italian states virtually ceased making war against each other and, with the important exception of the Piedmontese, Italian elites lost interest in military affairs. The Twilight of A...
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...
McFarland and Company, 2013. — 288 p. The U.S.-Mexican War, also known as the Mexican-American War and the Mexican War, took place from 1846 to 1848, and was mainly about control of Texas. Mexico claimed this territory despite Texas having declared itself a republic years earlier, while the U.S. wished to annex Texas and make it the 28th state. The war was fought with no allies...
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...
University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 197 p. Arms and Letters analyses the unprecedented number of autobiographical accounts written by Spanish soldiers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These first-person retrospective works recount a range of experiences throughout the sprawling domain of the Hispanic monarchy. Reading a selection of autobiographies in...
University of Texas Press, 1996. — 344 p. The first complete military history of the Texas Revolution, drawing on many original Texan and Mexican sources and on-site inspections of almost every battlefield. Hardly were the last shots fired at the Alamo before the Texas Revolution entered the realm of myth and controversy. French visitor Frederic Gaillardet called it a "Texian...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 128 p. Written by Henry Charles Harford C.B., The Zulu War Journal offers unprecedented insight into one of history’s most famous conflicts. From the catastrophe at Isandhlwana to the hunt for the Zulu King Cetshwayo, this journal chronicles the events central to the Zulu Wars, and remembers the men who bravely fought in them. Taking the reader...
Savas Beatie, 2017. — 528 p. Brandywine Creek calmly meanders through the Pennsylvania countryside today, but on September 11, 1777, it served as the scenic backdrop for the largest battle of the American Revolution, one that encompassed more troops over more land than any combat fought on American soil until the Civil War. Long overshadowed by the stunning American victory at...
Savas Beatie, 2022. — 750 p. The award–winning author of Brandywine examines a pivotal but overlooked battle of the American Revolution’s Philadelphia Campaign. Today, Germantown is a busy Philadelphia neighborhood. On October 4, 1777, it was a small village on the outskirts of the colonial capital—and the site of one of the American Revolution’s largest battles. Now Michael C....
Merrion Press, 2016. — 207 p. This is the first complete history of the Curragh Camp, from its foundation in 1855 to the present day, under both British and Irish occupation. Dan Harvey, a military historian and an experienced senior officer, presents a compelling and fascinating narrative of the camp’s many evocative eras and episodes. This unique establishment has been key in...
Constable and Robinson Ltd, 2006. — 832 p. At the turn of the 18th century the greatest nations in Europe, separated by only 21 miles of water, offered history two distinct ideals that would shape the new century: England was a democratic, constitutional monarchy; while France had suffered the cataclysm of Revolution which ripped the absolute King from the throne and replaced...
Conquistador Press, 2014. — 682 p. In May of 1592, Japanese dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a 158,800-man army of invasion from Kyushu to Pusan on Korea’s southern tip. His objective: to conquer Korea, then China, and then the whole of Asia. The resulting seven years of fighting, known in Korea as imjin waeran, the “Imjin invasion,” after the year of the water dragon in which...
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 British...
Bretwalda Books, 2012. — 34 p. With British and American troops again in Afghanistan, this book looks back to a previous conflict when Islamic fundamentalists again sought to overthrow the government of Afghanistan and British troops went in to pacify the area. In September 1879 rebels against Emir Yaqub Khan massacred the British residents of Kabul. The British put together a...
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 occupation...
Foundry, 2009. — 174 p. Ian Heath has assembled 183 line drawings and 39 photographs to illustrate the huge array of costumes and uniforms worn during this period. Coverage includes the Taipeng and Boxer rebellions, Formosa, the Mongols and Gordon's Ever Victorious Army. Ian Heath's accompanying text is one of the most coherent accounts available of Chinese history during this...
Foundry, 2011. — 176 p. This volume provides a detailed study of the astonishing reinvention of the Empire of Japan during the 19th century as it emerged from 200 years of self-imposed isolation to become a military superpower. As late as the 1850s the country remained technologically and militarily stagnant, but within just 40 years – in what must rank as the most rapid and...
Foundry Books, 1997. — 160 p. During the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I England was involved in a constant series of conflicts with Ireland and Scotland, and frequently sent expeditions to the territories now known as Belgium and the Netherlands to keep the Spanish and French at bay.
Pen and Sword Books, 2013. — 232 p. T.A. Heathcote s study of the conflicts that established British rule in South Asia, and of the military s position in the constitution of British India, is a classic work in the field. By placing these conflicts clearly in their local context, his account moves away from the Euro-centric approach of many writers on British imperial military...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 135 p. — (From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 №24) The battle of Königgrätz was the largest battle ever fought in western Europe until 1914 and its political consequences were no less epic - the demise of Austria as a European Great Power, the loss of her historic pre-eminence among the German nations, and the final, incontestable rise of Prussia. Whether...
Routledge, 2023. — 302 p. This volume draws together an international team of scholars to explore the experience and significance of early modern European continental warfare from an interdisciplinary perspective. Individual essays add to the lively fields of War and Society and the New Military History by combining the history of war with political and diplomatic history, the...
50Minutos, 2017. — 32 p. La batalla de las Llanuras de Abraham sella el futuro de la presencia francesa en Canadá. Se inscribe en un conflicto decisivo que opone a Francia e Inglaterra, es decir, a las mayores potencias coloniales del siglo XVIII, que se disputan el control del territorio canadiense. En la noche del 12 al 13 de septiembre de 1759, 4000 soldados desembarcan en...
Irish Academic Press, 1992. — 207 p. In 1586, Sir William Stanley oversaw the levying of more than 1,000 soldiers from Ireland to take part in an English expedition being sent by Queen Elizabeth to aid the rebel northern provinces of the Netherlands which were then at war with Spain. Stanley’s regiment was composed of Irish, Scots, and Englishmen, with more than half this...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 243 p. One of the first historical mentions of an armed conflict in what is now Romania dates back to 335 B.C., when, prior to launching his legendary Asian campaign, Alexander the Great organized an expedition over the Western shore of the Danube to deter the Gaets and secure the frontier of the Macedonian Kingdom. Since then, the land located on the...
The History Press, 2016. — 768 p. This is a collection of Ian Heron's three books, "Massacre and Retribution", "The Savage Empire" and "Blood in the Sand". Much has been written about the great British military triumphs of the 19th century, but there are many more astonishing stories which have been largely forgotten. These forgotten wars cannot hope to compete in history with...
New York University Press, 2015. — 272 p. In the early decades of the American Republic, American soldiers demonstrated and defined their beliefs about the nature of American republicanism and how they, as citizens and soldiers, were participants in the republican experiment through their service. In For Liberty and the Republic, Ricardo A. Herrera examines the relationship...
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...
Princeton University Press, 2024. — 384 p. The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars devastated Europe for nearly a quarter of a century. The Soldier’s Reward recovers the stories of soldiers and their relationships to family and domestic life during this period, revealing how prolonged warfare transformed family and gender dynamics and gave rise to new kinds of citizenship. In...
Editions Sociales, 1977. — 250 p. L'intérêt de ce travail est qu'il inclut la Moselle, et plus généralement le duché de Lorraine, où la révolte à également fait de nombreux émules. Un fait hélas passé sous silence dans l'histoire Lorraine. L'écriture de Heumann est fluide, et saisit bien le mouvement de rébellion dans sa lancée comme dans son écrasement sanglant. Cet excellent...
Routledge, 2015. — 234 p. In early modern times, warfare in Europe took on many diverse and overlapping forms. Our modern notions of ‘regular’ and ‘irregular’ warfare, of ‘major war’ and ‘small war’, have their roots in much greater diversity than such binary notions allow for. While insurgencies go back to time immemorial, they have become conceptually fused with ‘small wars’....
Casemate Publishers, 2018. — 192 p. Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead, the decisiveness of battles or their effects on communities and civilisations. It is their political afterlife the multiple meanings and political uses attributed to them that determines their fame. This ground-breaking...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 320 р. Until well into the twentieth century, pack animals were the primary mode of transport for supplying armies in the field. The British Indian Army was no exception. In the late nineteenth century, for example, it forcibly pressed into service thousands of camels of the Indus River basin to move supplies into and out of contested...
I.B. Tauris, 2012. — 320 p. The Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard is the world's oldest surviving royal bodyguard, having been founded by Henry VII in 1485. Today it is purely a ceremonial body, but in the past it was a true bodyguard and the nucleus of a fighting force at a time when England had no standing army. Nevertheless, even in its early years, its...
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...
Manchester University Press, 1988. — 209 p. The face of battle. After Waterloo. The Westminster Palace competitions. The Crimean War. New heroes. High Victorian battle painting I. High Victorian battle painting II. The imperial crisis. Figures. Genre painting. Recruitment, enlistment and desertion. Representations of the veteran. Domestic depictions of the soldier.
University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 480 р. 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, diplomatic, and domestic history of our second war...
Routledge, 2016. — 337 p. The War of 1812 ranged over a remarkably large territory, as the fledgling United States battled Great Britain at sea and on land across what is now the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada. Native people and the Spanish were also involved in the war’s interrelated conflicts. Often overlooked, the War of 1812 has been the subject of an explosion of new...
Bicentennial Edition. — University of Illinois Press, 2012. — 480 р. — 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,...
Edinburgh: John Donald, 1995. — 216 p. The most important aspect of continuity in Celtic warfare from 1595 and 1763 was the tactical offensive. Up to 1689 this was based largely on the renowned, undisciplined and fearsome broadsword attack which regularly dominated the battlefield against more conventional armies. Better led, trained and equipped British forces after this date,...
Michigan State University Press, 1995. — 214 p. For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese were imported from Africa in the hopes that they would...
UXL Thomson Gale, 2003. — 225 p. A comprehensive overview of the French and Indian War (1753-1763), including military biographies and full or excerpted memoirs, speeches, and other source documents.
Helion and Company, 2019. — 354 p. — (From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 №4) This book presents fresh analyses of unpublished, published and significant primary source material relevant to the medical aspects on the Eastern campaign of 1854-1856 – commonly called the Crimean War. The aim has been to produce an account based on robust evidence. The project began with no...
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 means...
Routledge, 2003. — 488 p. The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria’s emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in...
Routledge, 2003. — 488 p. The Habsburg Monarchy has received much historiographical attention since 1945. Yet the military aspects of Austria’s emergence as a European great power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have remained obscure. This book shows that force of arms and the instruments of the early modern state were just as important as its marriage policy in...
Acedia Press, 2012. — 122 p. Bogen giver en oversigt over den svenske hærs felttegn, faner og estandarter i perioden fra slutningen af det 15. århundrede og frem til Trediveårskrigen. Desuden gives et kort overblik over hærens uniformer i perioden.
Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. — 689 p. From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier. Since 1660 the army has evolved and adapted, but the social organisation of the men has changed less, with the major combat arms retaining many of the...
Juggernaut, 2019. — 232 p. Based on historical sources as well as Mewari oral traditions, this is a compelling, accessibly written biography of one of India’s greatest heroes. Who actually won the Battle of Haldighati in 1576? How did Maharana Pratap manage to elude capture by the mighty Mughal army for so long? And why did he stubbornly refuse to negotiate peace with Akbar?...
Foundry, 2008. — 200 p. — (Armies of the Nineteenth Century: The Americas). This book should not be looked upon as a political or social history, although an understanding of these aspects would give a clearer insight into why and how Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay became embroiled in the largest war ever fought in South America. It is, rather, a work covering the...
Helion and Company, 2023. — 136 p. — (From Retinue to Regiment 1453-1618) The defeat of John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, and the Anglo-Gascon army on 17 July 1453 at Castillon on the River Dordogne, 25 miles east of Bordeaux, was the last of the great battles of the Hundred Years’ War. Thre battle resulted in a catastrophic defeat for Talbot and heralded the rapid collapse of...
Leonaur, 2016. — 532 p. The creation of a new Europe in fire and blood Europe during the second half of the nineteenth century was in turmoil. Ancient empires sought to hold and consolidate their power, smaller states struggled to forge themselves into new nations and old enmities fanned the fires of conflict. The Seven Weeks War of 1866, the subject of this book, was also...
University of North Carolina Press, 2009. — 304 p. Most Civil War generals were graduates of West Point, and many of them helped transform the U.S. Army from what was little better than an armed mob that performed poorly during the War of 1812 into the competent fighting force that won the Mexican War. Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh demonstrates how the "old army" transformed itself...
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, the...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 240 p. In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world. The Spaniards were humbled on the battlefield and Montevideo was taken by storm, but the campaign ended in disaster when 6000 redcoats and riflemen surrendered following a bloody battle...
Texas University Press, 1997. — 224 p. A teacher turned soldier, John T. Hughes like so many other volunteers saw in the outbreak of the Mexican War the possibility for adventure and glory. He joined the First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers and announced that he planned to write a history of his fighting unit commanded by Colonel Alexander Doniphan, who would come to...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 504 p. In this complete military history of Britain's pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine, Matthew Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion. The Army had a long tradition of pacification to draw upon to support operations, underpinned by the creation of an emergency colonial state in...
New York University Press, 2012. — 297 p. The men who fought in Napoleon’s Grande Armée built a new empire that changed the world. Remarkably, the same men raised arms during the French Revolution for liberté, égalité, and fraternité. In just over a decade, these freedom fighters, who had once struggled to overthrow tyrants, rallied to the side of a man who wanted to dominate...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 240 p. In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world. The Spaniards were humbled on the battlefield and Montevideo was taken by storm, but the campaign ended in disaster when 6000 redcoats and riflemen surrendered following a bloody battle...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 240 p. In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world. The Spaniards were humbled on the battlefield and Montevideo was taken by storm, but the campaign ended in disaster when 6000 redcoats and riflemen surrendered following a bloody battle...
Hachette, 2015. — 224 p. John Churchill was born in 1650, the son of a defeated Cavalier captain, in a household which had been ravaged and rendered almost destitute by the English Civil War. Yet by the time of his death in 1722 he was among the richest men in the country, with a dukedom, a palace and a principality to call his own. His rise to power came through a combination...
Wagram Press, 2014. — 136 p. Every effort has been made to narrate in a concise and popular form the origin, history, and world-wide services of the several battalions, so that every Rifleman may be able to learn at least the outlines of the history of his Regiment—a Corps whose battle honours are unequalled in number, and whose reputation for discipline and courage is...
Società Italiana di Storia Militare, 2012. — 388 p. — (Atti del Convegno di Venezia e Verona, 29-30 settembre 2011). In tale contesto, ove la gente comune viveva nell’incertezza e nella difficoltà, Venezia rappresentò un luogo diverso grazie a livelli di libertà e sicurezza che non avevano uguali. Venezia, nata dalla volontà di non soccombere alle popolazioni barbare...
Widerholdt Frères, 2008. — 600 p. Biographical Dictionary of the Sardinian Army and Navy from 1799 to 1821. More than 6,000 biographies (all Sardinian officers from the army and navy) of the military coming from the Sardinian Kingdom active during the Napoleonic Wars, the early Restauration and the 1821 Piedmontese constitutional move. The Dictionary contain also the History...
Murray, 1912. — 427 p. The Italo-Turkish War (Turkish: "Tripolitanian War") was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire from September 29, 1911, to October 18, 1912. As a result of this conflict, Italy captured the Ottoman Tripolitania Vilayet, of which the main sub-provinces were Fezzan, Cyrenaica, and Tripoli itself. These territories became the colonies of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 238 p. In the late nineteenth century, the British Empire commanded the seas and possessed a vast Indian Empire, as well as other extensive dominions in South East Asia, Australasia, America and Africa. To secure the trade route to the glittering riches of the orient, the port of Berbera in Somaliland was taken from the ailing hands of an...
Low Price Publications Delhi, 1994. — 324 p. The Army of the Mughal Empire was the force by which the Mughal emperors established their empire in the 15th century and expanded it to its greatest extent at the beginning of the 18th century. Although its origins, like the Mughals themselves, were in the cavalry-based armies of central Asia, its essential form and structure was...
Lume Books, 2020. — 405 p. Wellington taught himself the art of war in India where his hard-fought victories helped lay the foundations of the British Raj. His armies liberated Portugal and Spain, shattered the myth of French invincibility and inspired the people of Europe to resist Napoleon. This is also the story of a humane, intelligent and acerbic aristocrat who created the...
Bretwalda Books, 2014. — 34 p. The Somerset town of Yeovil is today a busy bustling and prosperous place. Back in 1642 it was smaller, but was still prosperous enough to attract the attentions of both Roundhead and Cavalier armies eager to raise money and men for their sides. It became a focus for a battle fought as part of the English Civil War between Royalist Cavaliers loyal...
Bretwalda Books, 2014. — 25 p. The Dorset village of Abbotsbury is today a place of thatched stone cottages strung out along a single street, that widens at one point to form a market square. Although the village is today as peaceful as any in England, it was in 1644 a place of war and bloodshed for it became a focus for a battle fought as part of the English Civil War between...
Bretwalda Books, 2014. — 28 p. The village of Canon Frome nestles among the rolling hills of Herefordshire. Today it is a quiet, rural place, but in 1645 bloody war came here as Roundhead faced Cavalier in a brutal struggle that left the land strewn with the dead and maimed. The siege of the manor house was one of the final clashes of the English Civil War, taking place soon...
University of Alabama Press, 1994. — 248 p. Weapons improved rapidly after the Civil War, raising difficult questions about the battle tactics employed by the United States Army. The most fundamental problem was the dominance of the tactical defensive, when defenders protected by field works could deliver deadly fire from rifles and artillery against attackers advancing in...
Wojskowe Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej, 2016. — 186 p. The thousand-year history of Poland and the Polish nation reveals many battles which not only changed the course of the history of Poland, but also other countries in Central and Eastern Europe. A team of Polish military historians from both civil and military circles wishes to present you with a selection of campaigns and...
Brill, 2020. — 539 p. — (History of Warfare 131). Carl von Clausewitz is still considered one of the most important writers on military strategy. In Prussian Military Thought 1815-1830: Beyond Clausewitz , Jacek Jędrysiak offers a new perspective on the context of his legacy, with a detailed analysis of Prussian military thought after the Napoleonic wars and an examination of...
Det Nordiske Forlag, 1900. — 512 s. Den Skånske krig begyndte i 1675, da Danske og Svenske tropper tørnede sammen i det, der skulle blive en kamp om Skåne, Halland og Blekinge, som Danmark havde måttet afstå til Sverige i 1658. Med stor politisk og historisk indsigt forklarer N.P. Jensen årsagerne til krigen og gennemgår den slag for slag frem til freden i 1679. Niels Peder...
Amsterdam (Netherlands): P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1942.— 459 p. Монография известного исследователя истории военного-морского флота Нидерландов (на голландском языке). В книге ярко, интересно и подробно описаны самые известные военные кампании и морские сражения голландского флота, произошедшие в период с 1568 по 1695 гг. Много внимания автор уделил анализу боевых действий флотов...
Routledge, 2017. — 339 p. This book looks at the policing of social and political protest and of the role played by the French and Prussian armies in maintaining public order in the years leading up to the First World War. The period 1890 to 1914 was characterised by mass protest in both countries as the political, social and economic order of the German Empire and the French...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 256 p. The Civil Wars of the seventeenth century had a devastating effect upon Wales and the Marches, stripping the country of its human resources and ruining whole communities. This book explores the years of conflict between 1642 and 1649, detailing the campaigns, sieges and battles which took place in every corner of the country, presenting...
Cornell University Press, 2013. — 304 p. The U.S. Army entered World War II unprepared. In addition, lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and one in the air. Previous commentators have blamed Congressional funding and public apathy for the army's unprepared state. David E. Johnson...
Thames and Hudson, 2011. — 208 p. How military forces have prevailed against the odds, explained through vivid narratives and specially commissioned battle plans. Throughout history men and women have fought, endured, and sometimes emerged victorious though the odds were against them. What conditions must exist to enable relatively small or weak forces to challenge and even...
Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 368 p. A new study of Captain T. E. Lawrence "of Arabia", his ideas on warfare, and the context of the military campaigns, the peace settlements, and the legacies that followed. One hundred years ago, Captain Lawrence and an unlikely band of Arab irregulars captured the strategic port of Aqaba after an epic journey through waterless tracts of desert....
Osprey Publishing, 2020. — 368 p. A new study of Captain T. E. Lawrence "of Arabia", his ideas on warfare, and the context of the military campaigns, the peace settlements, and the legacies that followed. One hundred years ago, Captain Lawrence and an unlikely band of Arab irregulars captured the strategic port of Aqaba after an epic journey through waterless tracts of desert....
University Press of Kansas, 2007. — 376 p. In 1847 General Winfield Scott boldly led a small but undaunted army from the Mexican coast all the way to the Halls of Montezuma, routing Mexican forces at every turn while pacifying the countryside. Scott's military campaign—America's first ever in a foreign country—helped pave the way for victory in the wider war against Mexico and...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 232 p. — (Century of the Soldier). On 3 September 1650, two former allies fought a bitter clash of arms in the rain-soaked fields around the quiet seaside town of Dunbar. For one, it was a signal mercy which cemented his reputation and paved the way for political as well as military supremacy. For the other, it meant defeat, occupation, and the end...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 237 p. In the summer of 1745, a charismatic (but inexperienced) young Prince sailed to Scotland - determined to wrest the crowns of Great Britain from the head of George II. In a few short weeks, he raised an army large enough to challenge the government’s forces in Scotland and, against the odds, stormed to a shocking victory over them at the Battle...
Harvard University Press, 2011. — 426 p. In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable-it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in Africa to an end. In an age of relentless European expansion, Ethiopia had successfully defended its independence and cast doubt upon an unshakable certainty of the age-that sooner or...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. — 311 p. — ISBN-10 9780806142890. 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...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 140 p. The speakers at the 2018 Helion conference offer a variety of insights into the depth and direction of research into the Thirty Years’ War, with particular reference to the war’s effect on the British Isles, the careers of the officers from its shores who participated in the conflict, and the ‘trickle-down’ effect of the war into the military...
Helion and Company, 2018. — 220 p. The experience of war is never confined to those who participate militarily: the consequences of warfare ripple out across their immediate families and communities, and the lives of countless civilians the combatants will never meet. The wives and children of soldiers could become destitute in the absence of their menfolk, and in the...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 510 p. Few army officers of King Charles I shone as bright as George Lisle during the English Civil Wars, yet have drawn so little attention from subsequent historians. Born in London in 1615, Lisle’s father was a well-connected publisher and monopolist, and his mother a kinswoman of the Duke of Buckingham. Raised in the city of Westminster in a...
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, the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 128 p. John William Kaye’s book is a comprehensive look at the European intrigue and fighting that took place in modern-day Afghanistan during the 19th century. From the preface: Facts, having placed at my disposal a number of very interesting and important letters and papers, illustrative of the History of the War in Afghanistan, I undertook to...
Routledge, 2014. — 350 p. The Routledge Who's Who in Military History looks at those men and women who have shaped the course of war. It concentrates on all those periods about which the reader is likely to want information - the eighteenth-century wars in Europe, the American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars and the major conflicts of the nineteenth-century. There is full...
Vintage Books, 2012. — 348 p. At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people, Fields of Battle spans more than two centuries and the expanse of a continent to show how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on its soil of photos.
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. — (History of Warfare 104). 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...
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...
Pen and Sword Military, 2011. — 240 p. Of what use was the British cavalry during the years of trench warfare on the Western Front? On a static battlefield dominated by the weapons of the industrial age, by the machine gun and massed artillery, the cavalry was seen as an anachronism. It was vulnerable to modern armaments, of little value in combat and a waste of scarce...
New York Doubleday Page Company, 1916. — 520 p. As far, as practical, the language of Army and Navy regulations, manuals, official and semi-official reports and publications has been used in order that this volume may be considered a compendium of trustworthy military and naval information of educational value and interest to students, teachers, and the general public. The...
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 peninsula...
Henry Holt and Company, 2014. — 208 p. Historian Richard M. Ketchum's Saratoga vividly details the turning point in America's Revolutionary War. In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series...
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 Washington...
Henry Holt and Company, 2014. — 367 p. In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, George Washington's army lay idle for want of supplies, food, and money. All hope seemed lost until a powerful French force landed at Newport in July. Then, under Washington's directives, Nathanael Greene began a series of hit-and-run operations against the British. The damage the guerrilla fighters...
Edipresse, 2014. — 90 p. Bitwa pod Chocimiem – bitwa stoczona w dniach 2 września – 9 października 1621 roku pomiędzy armią Rzeczypospolitej Jana Karola Chodkiewicza a armią turecką pod dowództwem sułtana Osmana II. Zamknięte w warownym obozie siły polsko-litewsko-kozackie, stanęły na drodze armii osmańskiej pod miejscowością Chocim. Oblężenie zakończyło się taktycznym...
EdiPresse, 2014. — 92 p. The Battle of Kircholm (27 September 1605) was one of the major battles in the Polish–Swedish War (1600-1611). 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 remembered as one of the greatest triumphs of...
Edipresse, 2014. — 94 p. Bitwa pod Wiedniem (inaczej nazywana Odsieczą Wiedeńską lub rzadziej Wiktorią Wiedeńską) – bitwa stoczona 12 września 1683 pod Wiedniem między wojskami polsko-cesarskimi pod dowództwem króla Jana III Sobieskiego a armią Imperium Osmańskiego pod wodzą wezyra Kara Mustafy. Bitwa była przełomowym wydarzeniem w wojnie – zakończyła się klęską Osmanów, którzy...
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 ardently...
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...
Anboco, 2016. — 425 p. This book originally published in 1897. The author has endeavoured in the space at my disposal to show how the British Army has grown up. I have tried merely to tell a "story," and therefore omitted much that might have been said regarding the noble work the Queen's Army has done. As regards the opinions advanced, I have always, as far as possible, given...
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 during...
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 of...
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...
Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2003. — 315 s. Autor postawił sobie ambitne zadanie zaprezentowania polskiemu czytelnikowi monograficznego obrazu wojny amerykańsko-brytyjskiej na tle wydarzeń rozgrywających się równocześnie w Europie, gdzie rewolucyjna, a następnie napoleońska Francja - podporządkowawszy sobie spore obszary Starego Kontynentu - zwarła się w...
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...
Pen & Sword Military, 2006. — 208 p. The Zulu kingdom, created by Shaka kaSenzangakhona, lasted just over six decades before meeting the imperial might of the British Empire. Within six months the kingdom lay in pieces. A full military campaign, known as the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 was required to ensure its demise. The British High Commissioner in South Africa, Sir Henry Bartle...
Pen & Sword Military, 2006. — 208 p. The Zulu kingdom, created by Shaka kaSenzangakhona, lasted just over six decades before meeting the imperial might of the British Empire. Within six months the kingdom lay in pieces. A full military campaign, known as the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 was required to ensure its demise. The British High Commissioner in South Africa, Sir Henry Bartle...
Pen & Sword Military, 2020. — 272 p. The Anglo-Zulu War was a defining episode in British imperial history, and it is still a subject of intense interest. The Zulu victory at Isandlwana, the heroic British defense of Rorke's Drift and the eventual British triumph are among the most closely researched events of the colonial era. In this historical companion, Ian Knight, one of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 272 p. The Anglo-Zulu War was a defining episode in British imperial history, and it is still a subject of intense interest. The Zulu victory at Isandlwana, the heroic British defense of Rorke's Drift and the eventual British triumph are among the most closely researched events of the colonial era. In this historical companion, Ian Knight, one of...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 288 p. In this gripping collection of first-hand accounts, Ian Knight presents the adventure of nineteenth-century warfare – from the thrill of the cavalry charges at Balaklava and Omdurman, to the terror of battle against an overwhelming odds such as Rorke’s Drift – in the words of the men actually there. These eyewitness accounts provide a vivid and...
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 Army...
Macmillan, 2023. — 559 p. Ian Knight's Warriors in Scarlet is a comprehensive and stirring history of the Victorian army between 1837 to 1860, from the Battle of Bossendon Wood to the Crimean War, a period of seismic change. An acclaimed military historian, Knight draws on first-hand accounts to show us the reality of life for the British soldier in this era – the drudgery of...
Macmillan, 2023. — 558 p. Ian Knight's Warriors in Scarlet is a comprehensive and stirring history of the Victorian army between 1837 to 1860, from the Battle of Bossendon Wood to the Crimean War, a period of seismic change. An acclaimed military historian, Knight draws on first-hand accounts to show us the reality of life for the British soldier in this era – the drudgery of...
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...
Prentice Hall, 1983. — 256 p. Looks at the Thirty Years War, the American and French Revolutions, Napoleon's attempt to conquer Russia, the wars of Spanish and Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years War to show how modern warfare arose.
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 battle...
Harper, 2014. — 785 p. New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda's fresh, contemporary single volume historical biography of General Robert E. Lee—perhaps the most famous and least understood legend in American history and one of our most admired heroes. Michael Korda, author of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee...
Wydawnictwo inforteditions, 2009. — 66 p. Chorągwie wołoskie, tworzące wraz z chorągwiami tatarskimi lekką jazdę w kompucie koronnym, nie doczekały się do tej pory pełniejszego opracowania. W pracy omówiono genezę, skład społeczny, kadrę oficerską oraz uzbrojenie tych jednostek.
Edipresse Polska, 2015. — 96 p. The Battle of Prostki was fought near Prostki, 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 Waldeck, reinforced by cavalry of Prince...
Koebner, 1879. — 216 p. The Battle of White Mountain (German: Schlacht am Weißen Berge) was an important first battle in the early stages of the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648. It was fought on 8 November 1620. An army of 15,000 Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt was defeated by 27,000 men of the combined armies of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor led by Charles...
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...
G. Seyfarth, 1910. — 520 p. The Second Northern War (1655–1660) was fought between Sweden and its adversaries the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1655–1660), the Moscow Tsardom (1656–1658), Brandenburg-Prussia (1657–1660), the Habsburg Monarchy (1657–1660) and Denmark–Norway (1657–1658 and 1658–1660). In the Treaty of Labiau on 20 November 1656, Charles X Gustav of Sweden...
H. Altenberg, 1922. — 651 p. The Second Northern War (1655–60, also First or Little Northern War) was fought between Sweden and its adversaries the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1655–60), the Moscow Tsardom (1656–58), Brandenburg-Prussia (1657–60), the Habsburg Monarchy (1657–60) and Denmark–Norway (1657–58 and 1658–60). The Dutch Republic often intervened against Sweden in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 301 p. This book explores changes in emotional cultures of the early modern battlefield. Military action involves extraordinary modes of emotional experience and affective control of the soldier, and it evokes strong emotional reactions in society at large. While emotional experiences of actors and observers may differ radically, they can also be...
Forlagt G.E. Gad, 1909. — 125 p. Stormen på København den 11. februar 1659 var et slag under Karl Gustav-krigene, mens København var belejret af svenske tropper. Svenskerne havde omringet København, og efter at københavnerne havde modstået omtrent et halvt års blokade, bombardementer og angreb, forsøgte svenskerne at indtage byen ved et storstilet stormangreb. Københavnerne var...
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...
Helion and Company, 2017. — 154 p. — (Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 №1) The ignominious rout of a British force at the battle of Majuba on 27 February 1881 and the death of its commander, Major General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, was the culminating British disaster in the humiliating Transvaal campaign of 1880–1881 in South Africa. For the victorious Boers who were rebelling...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 276 p. The invasion in 1837 of the Zulu kingdom by Boers migrating from the British Cape Colony, and the massacres, battles and civil war that ensued between 1838–1840 as the Zulu resisted the settlers with spear against musket, was a critical moment in South African history. Many Afrikaners long celebrated their partial victory as the God-given...
Greenhill Books, 2019. — 256 p. It is January 1879, and the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom are at war. Lord Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who had successfully brought about federation in Canada in 1867, had believed a similar scheme would work in South Africa. But such plans are rejected by Boer leaders. Lord Chelmsford leads a British military...
Routledge, 2005. — 284 p. This book takes a unique look at the first Boer war by concentrating on the events and battles of the First Boer War. Due attention is also given to the 2nd Boer War - it's origins, key players and significance for the future of South Africa. The personal stories of heroism and sacrifice, sieges, rebellions and battles, make for an enthralling and...
Yale University Press, 2014. — 390 p. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the British embarked on a concerted series of campaigns in South Africa. Within three years they waged five wars against African states with the intent of destroying their military might and political independence and unifying southern Africa under imperial control. This is the first work to tell...
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. After...
Argo, 2010. — 264 p. The history of the small Estonian city of Dorpat (in modern days, Tartu), especially during the period of 1558–1708, when the whole country, coveted by three Great Powers – Russia, Poland and Sweden – was suffering in the throes of the Livonian War (1558–1583) and the Great Northern War (1700–1721), is full of dramatism. The city was besieged on nine...
Centro de Estudios Bilbilitanos, 2014. — 121 p. Esta obra indaga en las 'invisibles', o al menos poco conocidas relaciones, entre la ciudad de Calatayud y la odisea de los Tercios españoles durante la Guerra en Flandes. Calatayud fue una parte importante en esta guerra entre los reinos hipánicos y los rebeldes de Flandes, pues no sólo era zona de paso, con sus correspondientes...
Westholme Publishing, 2020. — 255 р. Civil War Hero and Scapegoat, Surveyor of Mexico, General of the Egyptian Army, and Builder of the Statue of Liberty's Pedestal. In the winter of 1861, as the secession crisis came to a head, an obscure military engineer, Charles Pomeroy Stone, emerged as the rallying point for the defense of Washington, D.C. against rebel attack. He was...
James Currey, 2011. — 245 p. The Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan - Churchill's 'River War' - has been well chronicled from the British point of view, but we still know little about its front line troops, the Sudanese soldiers of the Egyptian Army, the men who fought in all the battles, served as interpreters, military recruiters, and ethnic ambassadors throughout the...
Hippocrene Books. 1980, — 288 p. "This book [was] written to counterbalance those accounts that see the [Thirty Years'] War as a parade of campaigns, battles, and states. The author shows people coping with the rigours of war. His book spans the range of human ingenuity, from the production of worldly goods to the most subtle products of human reason and unreason.
Helion and Company, 2021. — 156 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №78) The outbreak of the Seven Years War saw the formation of new alliances and led to the conduct of military operations in several theatres simultaneously. The campaign of 1757 saw large-scale manoeuvres, with their necessary operational corollaries of supply and logistics, as France put an army of...
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 between...
G.E.C. Gad, 1889. — 272 p. Kalmarkrigen var en krig udkæmpet mellem Danmark og Sverige i årene 1611–1613 på grund af Sveriges forsøg på at bryde Danmarks monopol på handelen med Rusland og uenigheder om Finmarks fremtidige statslige tilhørsforhold. Den var sidste gang Danmark forsøgte at underlægge sig Sverige og dermed genetablere Kalmarunionen. I løbet af krigen forsøgte...
Casemate, 2017. — 576 p. On a typical day during the Second World War, Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, issued numerous memos to the ministers and service commanders on many different subjects, on both the grand strategy and the detail of the war effort. It was not just his work rate and his self-confidence which allowed him to do this. He had a...
Leiden, Brill, 2009. — 439 p. — (History of Warfare 53). 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,...
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...
Springer, 2024. — 248 p. - Focuses on the small wars of Western European in a time frame which often concentrates on ‘total war’ - Gives equal consideration to second-ranked and minor powers alongside Britain, France and Germany - Provides a thematic study of western European engagement with irregular warfare This book focuses on the wars that are normally relegated to the...
Springer, 2024. — 248 p. - Focuses on the small wars of Western European in a time frame which often concentrates on ‘total war’ - Gives equal consideration to second-ranked and minor powers alongside Britain, France and Germany - Provides a thematic study of western European engagement with irregular warfare This book focuses on the wars that are normally relegated to the...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 288 p. Kandahar in 1879 is the diary of Brigade Major Augustus Le Messurier (1837-1916), a British Indian railroad engineer who first joined the Bombay Engineers in 1856 and rose to become chief engineer and secretary to the government of Punjab in 1889. In November 1878, very shortly before the beginning of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, Le...
MacMillan Company, 1958. — 332 p. The Land and the People. Gathering Clouds. The Outbreak of War. The July Campaign of 1675. The War Spreads. Men, Materiel, and Money. The Campaign Against the Narragansetts. The Problem of the "Friendly Indians”. A Time of Troubles (February-May, 1676). The Spirit of Zion. The Waning of Indian Strength. Philipus Exit. The Aftermath. Notes.
Helion and Company, 2021. — 182 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 №75). This book covers an important part of British military history, namely the Trained Bands of the early Stuart period, 1603 - 1642. Both James I and Charles I tried to create a perfect militia during their reigns but how far did they get in achieving this aim? There is very little published about this...
Durham: Pentland Press, 1996. — 269 p. The author is a British officer (Colonial Police Medal, MBE) who served with 3/9th Bn Gurkha Rifles in Waziristan, India and Arakan, Burma, 1941-1944; served with 3/9th Bn Gurkha Rifles, 77th Indian Infantry Bde, 3rd Indian Infantry Div during Second Chindit Expedition in Burma, 1944; served with 3/9th Bn Gurkha Rifles on Java, Dutch East...
New York University Press, 2011. — 305 p. The early modern period (c. 1500–1800) of world history is characterized by the establishment and aggressive expansion of European empires, and warfare between imperial powers and indigenous peoples was a central component of the quest for global dominance. From the Portuguese in Africa to the Russians and Ottomans in Central Asia,...
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...
University of North Carolina Press, 2023. — 298 p. Incorporating archeology, anthropology, cartography, and Indigenous studies into military history, Wayne E. Lee has argued throughout his distinguished career that wars and warfare cannot be understood by a focus that rests solely on logistics, strategy, and operations. Fighting forces bring their own cultural traditions and...
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 struggle...
Regnery History, 2020. — 320 p. Many American know bits and pieces of the War for Independence. Lexington, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Yorktown, Washington, Hamilton, Benedict Arnold. All familiar names, but how did it all fit together. How did merchants, lawyers, farmers and cobblers all come together and defeat the combined forces of the British Empire, its powerful Navy, and...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 203 p. The proportion of wartime soldiers dying of disease as against combat injury, ran at about 70-75 percent in armies campaigning in Europe in the century and a half (1648-1789) between the end of the Thirty Years War and the French Revolution. During this time, field armies doubled in size and regimes usually fought for limited territorial...
Routledge, 2017. — 295 p. From Europe to India and America, Britain's Colonial Wars relates empire to the fortunes of war. In less than a century, between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the settlement following the War of the American Revolution, the modern British state was born. The Dutch William III tended to treat his British realms as a unit. The Act of Union of 1707...
Routledge, 2017. — 295 p. — (Modern Wars in Perspective). From Europe to India and America, Britain's Colonial Wars relates empire to the fortunes of war. In less than a century, between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the settlement following the War of the American Revolution, the modern British state was born. The Dutch William III tended to treat his British realms as a...
Routledge, 2000. — 320 p. — (Modern Wars in Perspective). Bruce Lenman's hugely ambitious study explores three interacting themes: the growth of England's sprawling colonial empire; its military dimension; and the impact of colonial warfare on national identity. He starts in Ireland, with the renewed assault of English settlers on the Irish Gaeltacht. Under the (Scottish)...
R. Drew Publishing, 1986. — 128 p. An authoritative, illustrated account of the Jacobite military Rebellions from their origins in 1688 to the total defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Jacobitism refers to the political movement in Great Britain and Ireland to restore the Roman Catholic Stuart King James II of England and his heirs to the thrones...
Routledge, 2018. — 252 p. This book assesses the service of Henri de Ruvigny, later earl of Galway, in France until the revocation of the edict of Nantes in 1685, his central role in transforming Ireland in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, and his service of the British monarchy as administrator, military commander and diplomat. The analysis rests on underutilized...
McFarland Company, 2009. — 283 p. This book describes and illustrates French fortifications from 1715 (the death of Louis XIV) to 1815 (the fall of Napoleon), focusing particularly on the Napoleonic era. After an historical background, it covers the heritage of the Ancien Regime with the important contributions of Vauban (the bastioned defense), Gribeauval's reforms in...
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995. — 214 p. For several years, the armies of Napoleon III deployed some 450 Muslim Sudanese slave soldiers in Veracruz, the port of Mexico City. As in the other case of Western hemisphere military slavery (the West India Regiments, a British unit in existence 1795-1815), the Sudanese were imported from Africa in the hopes that...
Brill, 2021. — 480 p. — (History of Warfare, Vol. 132). This book offers an in-depth examination of the conflict of 1838 to 1840 between the Zulus and the Boers. Leśniewski reflects on the established historiography and reappraises some key conceptions of the war. The conflict has often been seen as a colonial war, with the Zulus cast into the role of either villains or...
Texas Christian University Press, 2005. — 216 p. Traditional characterizations of the 1846–1848 war between the United States and Mexico emphasize the conventional battles waged between two sovereign nations. However, two little-known guerrilla wars taking place at the same time proved critical to the outcome of the conflict. Using information from twenty-four archives,...
Endeavour Press, 2014. — 746 p. From Agincourt to Waterloo, from Dunkirk to the Gulf War, and in every conflict in between, one man has served in all these battles. This is the story of Britain at war from the perspective of that man. It is the autobiography of the British soldier. In a comprehensive series of first-hand accounts, this anthology offers a huge variety of views...
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2019. — xvii, 245 p.: charts. — New Directions in East Asian History. — ISBN: 9789813296756 (eBook). This book re-visits 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 Maos 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, have indicated the true extent and level of Chinese participation in...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 292 p. This book surveys and examines the history of Britain's soldiers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It focuses on the lifecycle of a soldier, including enlistment and experience, and on identity, representations and place in society. It covers the diverse military forces of the British crown - the regular army, home defence forces,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 314 p. The British army between 1783 and 1815 – the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – has received severe criticism and sometimes exaggerated praise from contemporaries and historians alike, and a balanced and perceptive reassessment of it as an institution and a fighting force is overdue. That is why this...
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 304 p. The British army between 1783 and 1815 – the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – has received severe criticism and sometimes exaggerated praise from contemporaries and historians alike, and a balanced and perceptive reassessment of it as an institution and a fighting force is overdue. That is why this...
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 304 p. The British army between 1783 and 1815 – the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars – has received severe criticism and sometimes exaggerated praise from contemporaries and historians alike, and a balanced and perceptive reassessment of it as an institution and a fighting force is overdue. That is why this...
Wydawnictwo Obrony Narodowej, 1967. — 90 p. Кароль Чеслав Линдер – один из столпов польской униформологии середины XX в. Подполковник, куратор Музея Войска Польского, одаренный художник. Активный участник работ по восстановлению и продолжению многотомного труда «Польский солдат» другого корифея – Бронислава Гембажевского. Исторический консультант художественных фильмов и...
University of North Carolina Press, 2000. — 360 p. In a comprehensive study of four decades of military policy, Brian McAllister Linn offers the first detailed history of the U.S. Army in Hawaii and the Philippines between 1902 and 1940. Most accounts focus on the months preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. By examining the years prior to the outbreak of war, Linn...
University of North Carolina Press, 1989. — 275 p. After defeating the Philippine Republic's conventional forces in 1899, the U.S. Army was broken up into small garrisons to prepare Luzon for colonial rule. The Filipino nationalists transformed their resistance into a guerrilla warfare that varied so greatly from region to region in its organization, strategy, and tactics that...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 400 p. — (General Military). Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, this lavishly illustrated volume looks at all the different aspects of the 100-day campaign which has become synonymous with the Napoleonic Wars and saw the eventual defeat of Napoleon's French forces. Ten articles by internationally renowned...
Osprey Publishing, 2014. — 400 p. — (General Military). Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo, this lavishly illustrated volume looks at all the different aspects of the 100-day campaign which has become synonymous with the Napoleonic Wars and saw the eventual defeat of Napoleon's French forces. Ten articles by internationally renowned...
Neil Wilson Publishing, 2001. — 288 p. A unique historical record compiled from the rolls made by the Hanoverian army of the Duke of Cumberland after the Battle of Culloden in 1746. Every Scottish regiment present at the battle has been recorded and the following are detailed: Stewarts of Appin, Atholl Brigade, Bannerman of Elsick's, Cameron of Locheil's, Chisholm of...
London: MacDonald and Jane's, 1977. — 182 p. In The 1857 War Of Independence The Sepoys Of The Indian Army Rose Against The British And Seized Delhi. This Fast-Moving And Vigorous Account Of The Ensuing Siege Makes Skilful Use Of Contemporary Memoirs And Letters And Reconstructs The Atmosphere Of That Violent Summer. Contents: List of Illustrations vi Introduction 1 1. Mutiny 7...
Routledge, 2016. — 432 p. The First World War was above all a war of logistics. Whilst the conflict will forever be remembered for the mud and slaughter of the Western Front, it was a war won on the factory floor as much as the battlefield. Examining the war from an industrial perspective, Arming the Western Front examines how the British between 1900 and 1920 set about...
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 not...
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 kingdom...
Harper Perennial, 2010. — 349 p. The true story of the Baron de Steuben and the making of the American Army, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge is the first biography in half a century of the immigrant Prussian soldier who molded George Washington’s ragged, demoralized troops into the fighting force that eventually triumphed in America’s War of Independence. Praised by renowned...
Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop), 2024. — 96 p. — (War in Colour 013) Se Andrea Doria è stato forse il più importante Ammiraglio tra la fine del XV e la prima metà del XVI secolo, Ambrogio Spinola merita di essere menzionato con il medesimo lustro tra i Generali più capaci del XVII secolo. Due figli di Genova, appartenenti a famiglie per lungo tempo rivali, che sono stati in...
Pimlico, 2001. — 610 p. The British Isles, it is often believed, have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years. Norman Longmate reveals in this fascinating book that foreign soldiers have landed on British soil on many occasions. This definitive study weaves original sources into an enthralling narrative with facts about weapons, ships, armies, and fortresses—spiced with...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 202 p. Records show that the Chinese invented gunpowder in the 800s. By the 1200s they had unleashed the first weapons of war upon their unsuspecting neighbours. This extraordinarily ambitious book traces the history of that invention and its impact on the surrounding Asian world - Korea, Japan, South East Asia and South Asia - from the ninth...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 202 p. Records show that the Chinese invented gunpowder in the 800s. By the 1200s they had unleashed the first weapons of war upon their unsuspecting neighbours. This extraordinarily ambitious book traces the history of that invention and its impact on the surrounding Asian world - Korea, Japan, South East Asia and South Asia - from the ninth...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2018. — 54 p. On first glance, the Mexican-American War seems to be a simple border dispute. However, upon closer examination, it is clear that the war was also about slavery, politics, citizenship, and resources. Illuminating text explores the events preceding the war, the motivations of the key players, and the effects on Mexican, American,...
Casemate Publishers, 2014. — 320 p. There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This is not always true, as this book proves, because sometimes pure military skill can propel a nation to prominence, if it is simply able to crush all its opponents on a battlefield. No better example...
Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 2015. — 364 s. Do XVI wieku Szwecja pozostawała na uboczu wielkiej polityki europejskiej. Dopiero pojawienie się dynastii Wazów, zmiana wyznania na protestantyzm i przejęcie zasobów Kościoła wyzwoliły wielką energię w narodzie. W wojnach z Rosją i Rzeczpospolitą wodzowie szwedzcy zdobyli doświadczenie i usprawnili armię. Geniusz militarny i...
Routledge, 2018. — 220 p. British military history in India has been amply documented, but From Sepoy to Subedar by Sita Ram is the only published account by an Indian soldier of his experiences serving in the East India Company’s Army. These memoirs cover a span of more than forty years of active service, and provide a fascinating insight into the lives of the Indian soldiers...
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...
Savas Beatie, 2010. — 512 p. The months-long 1777 Saratoga campaign was one of the most decisive of the entire Revolutionary War. The crushing British defeat prompted France to recognize the American colonies as an independent nation, declare war on England, and commit money, ships, arms, and men to the rebellion. John Luzader’s impressive Saratoga: A Military History of the...
Routledge, 2019. — 290 p. Originally published in 1986. The French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War) occurred in the mid-eighteenth century. The concern of this bibliography is with the North American experience in this war, with excursions into the West Indies to examine collateral events which involved Anglo-Americans from what is now the United States. Emphasis is placed on...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 672 p. An 'invisible giant', the seventeenth-century French army was the largest and hungriest institution of the Bourbon monarchy. Combining social and cultural emphases with more traditional institutional and operational concerns, this book examines the army in depth, studying recruitment, composition, discipline, motivation, selection of...
New York: Routledge, 1999. — 436 p. Warfare dominated the long reign of Louis XIV. From 1672, France was continuously at war for over 40 years across Europe, from Sicily to Ireland, fielding the largest armies seen in the West since the fall of imperial Rome. Yet these conflicts - which shaped borders, determined lives, and settled crowns, and tell us so much about the great...
Osprey, 2002. — 96 p. Campaigns fought by Louis XIV, the Sun King, shaped the borders of European states, the destinies of royal dynasties, and even the patterns of absolutist government. This book presents the most authoritative yet accessible and succinct account of these all-important struggles available today, covering every aspect of the wars from decisions made by the...
Routledge, 1999. — 436 p. Warfare dominated the long reign of Louis XIV. From 1672, France was continuously at war for over 40 years across Europe, from Sicily to Ireland, fielding the largest armies seen in the West since the fall of imperial Rome. Yet these conflicts - which shaped borders, determined lives, and settled crowns, and tell us so much about the great monarch's...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 288 p. In 1711, the newly formed Great Britain launched its first attempt to conquer French North America. The largest military force ever assembled to fight on the continent was dispatched and combined with colonial American units in Boston before proceeding up the St Lawrence River for Quebec. An additional colonial force set out from Albany to...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 239 p. Far more than an architecture book, Coastal Defences of the British Empire, 1775–1815 is a sweeping reinterpretation of the Martello towers, Grand Redoubts, Royal Military Canal and other new defence infrastructure of the Napoleonic War. Lavishly illustrated with period maps, views, portraits, cartoons and newly commissioned color...
Legionary Books, 2017. — 420 p. On the morning of 22 January 1879, while three columns of British soldiers and their African allies cross the uMzinyathi River to commence the invasion of the Zulu Kingdom, a handful of redcoats from B Company, 2/24th Regiment are left to guard the centre column’s supply depot at Rorke's Drift. Ten miles to the east, the main camp at Isandlwana...
Leiden, Brill, 2003. — 245 p. — (History of Warfare. Volume 17). 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 any...
DM Publishers, 2016. — 239 p. The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and the subsequent capitulation of Quebec set the stage for an equally significant French-British engagement in the struggle for northeastern North America, the Battle of Sainte-Foy. In the spring of 1760, after having suffered a brutal winter, Quebec garrison commander James Murray's troops were...
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911. — 224 p. Classic depiction of the Indian Army at the height of the English Age of the Empire - superb uniform plates are set alongside a historical narrative with notes on the Indian Army, its regiments and battles. This is an invaluable work for anyone interested in the Indian armies and their military uniforms. The impressive watercolour...
Helion and Company, 2023. — 274 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №106). In the early 1770s, the 33rd Foot acquired a reputation as the best-trained regiment in the British Army. This reputation would be tested beyond breaking point over the course of the American Revolutionary War. From Saratoga to South Carolina, the 33rd was one of the most heavily-engaged units – on...
Central European University, 2012. — 452 p. Блестящая и великолепная комплексная научная монография современного историка Домагоя Мадунича (на английском языке) посвящена совершенно малоизученной и невероятно интересной теме боевых действий венецианской армии и флота в Далмации (Хорватии) и Албании в ходе Критской (Кандийской) Войны (1645-1669). Автор монографии проделал поистине...
Partizan Press, 2017. — 88 p. Since 1642 a bloody Civil War had been raging across England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland. By 1644 the north of England was completely dominated by Parliamentarian forces, everywhere royalist garrisons had been left to their own fates, no field armies coming to their aid. King Charles I, who had all but lost his war against his Parliament, must...
Boston: Little, Brown, & company, 1899. — 320 p. Introductory: Comprehension of military and Naval Matters possible to the people, and important to the nation. How the motive of the War gave Direction to its Earler Movements. — Strategic Value of Puerto Rico. — Considerations on the Size and Qualities of Battleships. — Mutual Relations of Coast Defence and Navy. The Effect of...
Macmillan Education, 1980. — 228 p. Areas of Conflict 1590–1609. Europe During the Twelve Years Truce 1609–1621. The Seven Fat Years of the Habsburgs 1621–1628. The Seven Lean Years of the Habsburgs 1628–1635. The European War 1635–1645. The Making of Settlements 1645–1660.
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. — 767 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...
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...
Create Space Independent Publishing, 2018. — 180 p. The Battle of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683 after the imperial city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire led by the Habsburg Monarchy and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, both under the command of King John III...
Normanby Press, 2016. — 238 p. Few Generals left such a shining legacy of military genius and glory than Frederick the Great and his Prussian army, however, this reputation was hard fought and grimly won against the forces of Austria. The leading Austrian general, who frustrated many of Frederick’s designs, was General Frieherr von Loudon, a soldier through and through. In this...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 541 p. This book describes the role and organization of the land forces of a renaissance state over a long period. It thus provides a model against which the military development of other countries can be measured in terms of the composition, control and cost of armies. Above all, it redresses the imbalance whereby only the naval forces of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 362 p. Although only formed in December 1992, The Light Dragoons look back to a history that began in the days of the first Jacobite rebellion. In 1922 a reduction in the Armys strength saw the amalgamation of four regiments of Hussars into the 13th/18th Hussars and the 15th/19th Hussars. Now they too have been amalgamated, with a name that...
Bantam Books, 2011. — 752 p. Edgehill, 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the old, feudal way: there has to be system and discipline, and therefore - eventually - a standing professional army. From the 'New Model Army' of Cromwell's distant vision, former...
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.
S. Fischer, 1971. — 1128 p. At the time of the Thirty Years War, Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634) became the supreme famous commander of the armies of the Habsburg Monarchy and became one of Europe's most powerful princes and one of the most important figures to emerge from the turmoil of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648).
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.
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 239 p. Britain’s war against the Zulu people of southern Africa in the late nineteenth century is one of the most famous clashes in the history of the British empire, but her earlier wars against the Xhosa, also in southern Africa, are far less well known. And, although the role Lord Chelmsford played in the Anglo-Zulu War has been recounted in...
Quartet Books, 1985. — 223 p. Guards are a key to history. Since the personal military bodyguards and household troops of the different monarchies of Europe were the largest military force in their respective capitals, it was they who, in moments of crisis, decided the fate of the monarchy. Guards were always there, on duty, when history was being made, and they often made it...
Liverpool University Press, 2016. — 256 p. The book outlines how class is single most important factor in understanding the British army in the period of industrialisation. It challenges the 'ruffians officered by gentlemen' theory of most military histories and demonstrates how service in the ranks was not confined to 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of...
Osprey Publishing, 1992. — 128 p. — (Osprey Aerospace). — ISBN 1855321939 / ISBN13 9781855321939. This Osprey Publishing Deserts Storm special issue contains images of colours and unit markings worn by the allied air forces during Operation Desert Storm.
Brill, 2022. — 228 p. — (History of Warfare. Vol. 141). This book reassesses the military and diplomatic capacity of the Stuart state in the run up to the British Civil Wars and fundamentally challenges the prevailing theory that there was little or no English engagement in the Thirty Years’ War. The granting of permission to levy soldiers for the armies of nations such as the...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 202 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №62) This is the story of a Spanish army, commanded by the Marqués de La Romana, which was sent to Denmark by Napoleon in 1807, whilst France and Spain were allies bound by the Treaty of San Ildefonso, signed in 1796. When relations between the two countries broke down in May 1808 they were soon at war...
National Book Network, 2013. — 152 p. A brilliant military strategist, superb horseman, statesman, philosopher, Muslim saint. Emir Abdel Kader (1808-1883) was an international celebrity in his own time, known for his generosity and kindness even towards enemies. Today he is recognized as one of the noblest leaders of the 19th century and a pioneer in interfaith dialogue. This...
Chicago Review Press, 2018. — 288 p. In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot—and illegal—forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms, which would...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 768 p. In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel - and then a fierce naval battle - foiled the planned invasion. Many myths still surround these events. The genius of Sir Francis Drake is exalted, while Spain’s efforts are belittled. But what really happened...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 768 p. In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel - and then a fierce naval battle - foiled the planned invasion. Many myths still surround these events. The genius of Sir Francis Drake is exalted, while Spain’s efforts are belittled. But what really happened...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 768 p. In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel - and then a fierce naval battle - foiled the planned invasion. Many myths still surround these events. The genius of Sir Francis Drake is exalted, while Spain’s efforts are belittled. But what really happened...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2005. — 241 p. When the first edition of this highly successful volume appeared in 1982, the proponents of the “new” military history were just gaining full momentum. Their objective was to reach beyond the traditional focus of military studies—the flow of guns, combat, and tactics that influenced the immediate outcome of battles and martial conflicts, often...
Edaf, 2017. — 278 p. Para los europeos de su tiempo no hubo sombra de duda: Durante más de ciento cincuenta años, entre 1534 y finales del siglo XVII, los tercios españoles fueron las mejores unidades militares del mundo. Tres siglos después de su desaparición, todavía los especialistas de hoy comparan los tercios de infantería española con las legiones romanas y las falanges...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2009. — 258 p. While researching this book, Jack C. Mason made the kind of discovery that historians dream of. He found more than one-hundred unpublished and unknown letters from Union general Israel B. Richardson to his family, written from his time as a West Point cadet until the day before his fatal wounding at the Battle of Antietam, the...
The Louisiana State University, 1972. — 278 p. Данная работа американского ученого Нормана Мейсона посвящена исследованию событий знаменитой Кандийской (Критской) Войны 1645-1669 годов, произошедшей между Венецианской Республикой и Оттоманской Империей. Автор достаточно подробно описывает ход этой длительной (25-летней) Войны, уделяя основное внимание ходу боевых действий сторон...
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.
Bretwalda Books, 2013. — 50 p. A book dedicated to the two sieges of Leicester in the summer of 1645, events that saw much of the medieval city razed to the ground and hundreds of citizens killed. Leicester spent most of the English Civil War at peace, a garrison town for Parliament in the Midlands. Then in May 1645 Royalist Prince Rupert arrived and laid siege to the city....
Bretwalda Books, 2013. — 48 p. The city and castle of Newark was a loyal bastion of Royalist support on the edge of Parliamentarian territory. Roundhead attacks in 1643 and 1644 were driven off. In 1645 they arrived in large numbers, with heavy cannon and great determination. The Royalist garrison fought back with imagination and courage. After 7 months the garrison...
Andrea Press 2006. — 51 р. The US Cavalry is a theme that reminds the reader of some of the most heroic actions in the military history of all times and at all the corners of the globe. This body, surrounded by the myths that made the US Cavalry known worldwide has seen how its image was either glorified with great campaigns idealized mainly by Hollywood, which were really...
Westholme Publishing, 2018. — 400 p. On July 29, 1778, a powerful French naval squadron sailed confidently to the entrance of Narragansett Bay. Its appearance commenced the first joint French and American campaign of the Revolutionary War. The new allies' goal was to capture the British garrison at Newport, Rhode Island. With British resolve reeling from the striking patriot...
New York University Press, 1992. — 275 p. James McCaffrey examines America's first foreign war, the Mexican War, through the day-to-day experiences of the American soldier in battle, in camp, and on the march. With remarkable sympathy, humor, and grace, the author fills in the historical gaps of one war while rising issues now found to be strikingly relevant to this nation's...
McFarland, 2009. — 231 p. This is the story of the Spanish-American War 1898-1899, told not from the perspective of generals, policy makers, or politicians, but from that of the soldiers, sailors and marines in the field and the reporters who covered their efforts. Concentration on the daily lives of these people provides insight into the often overlooked facets of a soldier's...
Pen and Sword, 1993. — 224 p. The white mercenaries who attracted the world's attention in the Congo during the early 1960s were never more than a few hundred in number. In contrast, no fewer than a million Swiss troops served as mercenaries in the armies of Europe during the preceding 500 years. Swiss mercenaries form a significant strand in the rope of European military...
The History Press, 2018. — 484 p. Born in Dublin in 1822, Lieutenant-General John Nicholson was raised and educated in Ireland. He joined the East India Company's Bengal Army as 16-year old boy-soldier and he saw action in Afghanistan, the two Anglo-Sikh wars and the Great Rebellion or Mutiny. He died in the thick of battle as the British army he was leading stormed the ancient...
THP Ireland, 2014. — 288 p. A history including the the Revolutionary War, the French Revolution, and the Flight of the Wild Geese. Covering the period from King James II's reign of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland in 1685, until the disbandment of the Irish Brigades in France and Spain, this book looks at the origins, formation, recruitment, and the...
Four Courts Press, 2005. — 190 p. The Nine Years War was the greatest challenge that Gaelic Ireland presented to the Elizabethan English state. The role played by the young chieftain, Red Hugh O'Donnell (1572-1602), in the Gaelic confederacy which fought this war, was crucial. Without him, the possibility of such successful and wide-ranging resistance to the expansion of...
Praeger, 2006. — 320 p. Egypt has one of the oldest civilizations and proudest national histories in the world, but most military histories treat it as a mere battleground for other great imperial powers such as the Ottoman Empire, the French, and the British. In a lively and stirring narrative, this work tells the untold story of the Egyptian experience. It looks at the lives of...
Stackpole Books, 2007. — 432 p. Based on soldiers' and civilians' vivid accounts--many uncovered for the first time from private collections--the story of the compelling fight for independence reaches its most desperate moments. This second in a two-volume set follows the saga from Cornwallis's triumphal march of his British and Hessian troops into Philadelphia in late...
Department of the U.S. Army Press, 2008. — 415 p. The newest volume in the Army Lineage Series, The Organizational History of Field Artillery addresses the need for a modern work recording the historical structure, strength, disposition, materiel, and technical and tactical doctrine of field artillery in the U.S. Army.В Although several books on field artillery have appeared...
Dundurn Press, 1997. — 195 p. James FitzGibbon, Defender of Upper Canada, is the often poignant story of a poor man’s rise to authority in the Upper Canada of the 1800s. Born the son of a tenant farmer in Ireland, FitzGibbon’s valour as a soldier brought him to the attention of those destined for power in the Canadas. Hero of the Battle of Beaver Dams in 1813, one of the...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2016. — 240 p. Raids and sieges; trench warfare and air campaigns; guerrilla warfare, naval engagements, and colonial wars―American Battles & Campaigns covers every major campaign and battle fought in North America or by United States’ forces overseas, from the Pequot War of 1634 to the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Arranged chronologically,...
Helion Company, 2018. — 311 p. In 1685, James, Duke of York, ascended to the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland. As the first catholic monarch in 150 years many believed that his reign would be short and that he would be succeeded by his eldest daughter Mary, a Protestant, who was married to her cousin William, Prince of Orange and Stadtholder of the United Dutch...
The History Press, 2013. — 224 p. With more than 60,000 combatants, the Battle of the Boyne, which took place on July 1, 1690, was the largest battle ever fought on Irish soil, and has long been regarded as the pivotal event of the Williamite War due to the presence of two crowned Kings of EnglandJames II and William IIIin command of the opposing armies. This is in fact a...
Potomac Books, 2021. — 448 p. Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the latter days of World War I. But Pershing was in his late fifties by then. Pershing’s military career began in 1886, with his graduation from West Point and his first assignments in the American West as a...
Potomac Books, 2021. — 448 p. Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the latter days of World War I. But Pershing was in his late fifties by then. Pershing’s military career began in 1886, with his graduation from West Point and his first assignments in the American West as a...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 94 p. The war with Mexico was the one of the most decisive conflicts in American history. After smashing Mexico's armies the young republic bestrode the North American continent like a colossus with one leg anchored on the Atlantic seaboard and the other on the Pacific. It was a bitter, hard fought war that raged across Mexico through the northern...
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...
Tafelberg-Uitgewers BPK, 1971. — 220 p. Petrus Jacobus Joubert (1831- 1900), better known as Piet Joubert, was Commandant-General of the South African Republic from 1880 to 1900. He also served as Vice-President to Paul Kruger from 1881-1883. He served in First Boer War, Second Boer War, and the Malaboch War. During the first British annexation of the Transvaal, Joubert earned...
The History Press, 2011. — 224 p. The day after the Battle of Balaklava, the Russians attempted an armed reconnaissance of the Allied right flank aimed at the exposed Inkermann position, but the remnants of the British 2nd Division bloodily repulsed them. The battle lasted less than 12 hours but was one of the bloodiest engagements in European history. While the Russian army...
Boydell Press, 2014. — 254 p. It is well-known that many Irishmen who refused to submit to the English in the reigns of Elizabeth and the early Stuart kings, including the famous earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, went to fight for the king of Spain, but what they did when they joined the Spanish armies is much less well-known. This book provides a wealth of detail on the...
Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa, 2008. — 169 p. Discurso Militar do marquês de Aytona, publicado inicialmente em 1654, foi reeditado em 2008 na colecção de clássicos do pensamento militar do Ministerio de Defensa de Espanha. Esta reedição é precedida por um estudo crítico da autoria de Eduardo de Mesa Gallego, no qual se apresentam os aspectos fundamentais do Discurso e uma...
Madrid: Ministerio de Defensa, 2009. — 245 p. Durante el resto de 1604 se estuvo planeando en Valladolid y Bruselas, porun lado, la forma en la que la pérdida de La Esclusa se viese mitigada y, por otro,la estrategia a seguir para intentar poner contra las cuerdas a las recién nacidas Provincias Unidas para forzarlas a llegar a un acuerdo honroso que pusiese fin a la Guerra de...
VR Unipress, 2020. — 317 p. — (Herrschaft und soziale Systeme in der Frühen Neuzeit 26). When looking at the Early Modern period (16th to the late 18th century), we often speak of "the military" or "the army", but do we know what exactly these terms mean? The forms and structures of the armed forces have not only changed between 1500 and 1800, but also varied throughout...
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1970. — 164 s. W książce opisane jest jedno z niesamowitych zwycięstw Jana Karola Chodkiewicza. Wojsko pod jego dowództwem rozgromiło o wiele liczniejszą armię Szwedzką Karola IX. Przy takim rozkładzie sił zwycięstwo zdaje się być, najwidoczniej z pozoru, nieosiągalne.
Yale University Press, 2022. — 440 p. The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years—the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland. Charles, First Marquis of Cornwallis (1738–1805), was a leading figure in late eighteenth-century Britain. His career spanned the American War of Independence, Irish Union, the French...
Wydawn. Bellona, 1991. — 248 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Bitwa pod Maciejowicami, stoczona 10 października 1794 pod Maciejowicami pomiędzy wojskami polskimi dowodzonymi przez gen. Tadeusza Kościuszkę a wojskami rosyjskimi pod dowództwem gen. Fiodora Denisowa i Iwana Fersena, zakończyła się klęską wojsk powstańczych i wzięciem do niewoli rannego dyktatora powstania. Naczelnik...
Stackpole Books, 2000. — 208 p. From the French and Indian War to the Civil War, Pennsylvania was often the setting for bloody battles and other important military events. The names reverberate through American history: Fort Necessity, Brandywine, Valley Forge, Lake Erie, Gettysburg. This book is a travel guide to these sites and more, outlining what originally happened at each...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 119 p. — (Retinue to Regiment). The Swabian League was established as a defensive alliance of princes, prelates, and Imperial cities to maintain the peace within the territory of Southern Germany. In 1525 the League faced an existential threat in the form of an attempt by the exiled Duke Ulrich of Württemberg to retake his territory and a series of...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 119 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. Швабская лига была создана как оборонительный союз принцев, прелатов и имперских городов для поддержания мира на территории Южной Германии. В 1525 году Лига столкнулась с экзистенциальной угрозой в виде попытки изгнанного герцога Ульриха Вюртембергского вернуть себе свою территорию и серии локальных...
Birlinn, 2007. — 288 p. In 1612, George Sinclair, an illegitimate son of a Caithness laird, became a Norwegian national hero. Along with almost 300 of his followers, Sinclair was killed in an ambush in Norway while marching to join the King of Sweden's army. Sinclair has legendary status in Norway but has been totally forgotten in his home country, just as the memory of...
Routledge, 2012. — 288 p. This study analyzes the readiness of the British military establishment for war in 1899 and its performance in the South African War (1899-1902). It focuses on the career of Field Marshal Paul Sanford, 3rd Baron Methuen, whose traditional military training, used so effectively in Queen Victoria's small wars, was put to the test by the modern challenges...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 224 p. This is a new history of Britain's imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Including chapters on wars fought in the hills, on the veldt, in the dense forests, and along the coast, it discusses wars waged in China, Burma, Afghanistan, and India/Pakistan; New Zealand; and, West, East, and South Africa. Leading military historians...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 224 p. This is a new history of Britain's imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Including chapters on wars fought in the hills, on the veldt, in the dense forests, and along the coast, it discusses wars waged in China, Burma, Afghanistan, and India/Pakistan; New Zealand; and, West, East, and South Africa. Leading military historians...
Free Press, 2012. — 736 p. Called “the preeminent survey of American military history” by Russell F. Weigley, America’s foremost military historian, For the Common Defense is an essential contribution to the field of military history. This carefully researched third edition provides the most complete and current history of United States defense policy and military institutions...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 484 p. The Ottoman–Safavid conflict was viewed by the countries of Europe as being beneficial to their interests and there was therefore a subsequent hunger for up-to-date intelligence of events in that part of the world. As resident physician to the Venetian legation, Giovanni-Tommaso Minadoi he made use of his wide contacts within the community to gather...
Białystok: Prymat, 2017. — 244 s. Forming in the first months after the February Revolution, sections of the extremely leftist branch of the Polish Socialist Party, the Polish Socialist Party – Left and the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania almost immediately made contact with Polish soldiers dispersed in the Russian Army, as well as serving in the Polish...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 252 p. The Second Anglo-Afghan War was a military conflict fought between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the latter was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dynasty, the son of former Emir Dost Mohammad Khan. The war was part of the Great Game between the British and Russian empires. The war was split...
Edipresse, 2016. — 96 p. The Battle of Párkány was a battle fought between October 7–9, 1683 in the town of Párkány (today: Štúrovo) in the Ottoman Empire, and the area surrounding it as part of the Polish-Ottoman War and the Great Turkish War. The battle was fought in two stages. In the first stage Polish troops under John III Sobieski were defeated by the Ottoman army under...
Archon Books, 1972. — 274 p. — Edited by Ian Roy. Blaise de Monluc and his 'Commentaries' are well known in France, hardly at all in England. He helped to establish the legend, a century before d'Artagnan and Cyrano de Bergerac, of the dashing Gascon cavalier whose sword brings him fame and honour. He has another reputation of the bloody avenger of the French Religious Wars....
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, 1998. — 282 p. The Punjab Irregular Force and the Origins of Hill Warfare, 1849–1878. The Army in India and Mountain Warfare, November 1878–April 1898. The Lessons of Tirah, May 1898–August 1914. The Lessons of Waziristan, August 1914–October 1925. The Modernization of Mountain Warfare, November 1925–August 1939. Conclusion Frontier Warfare in Retrospect and...
Frank Cass, 2004. — 293 p. A comprehensive and challenging analysis of the British defence of Egypt, primarily against fascist Italy, in the critical lead-up period to the Second World War. Culminating in the decisive defeat of the Italian military threat at Sidi Barrani in December 1940, this is a fascinating new contribution to the field. The security of Egypt, a constant of...
Royal Historical Society, 1993. — 272 p. Between 1594 and 1603 Elizabeth I faced her most dangerous challenge -the insurrection in Ireland known to British historians as the `Rebellion of the Earl of Tyrone', and to their Irish counterparts as the `Nine Years War'. This study examines the causes of the conflict in the developing policy of the Crown, which climaxed in the...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 256 p. The Fear of Invasion presents a new interpretation of British preparation for War before 1914. It argues that protecting the British Isles from invasion was the foundation upon which all other plans for the defence of the Empire were built up. Home defence determined the amount of resources available for other tasks and the relative focus...
Arcadia Publishing, 2016. — 128 p. In December 1780, former Quaker turned general Nathanael Greene took command of the entire Southern Department. He reported only to George Washington himself. Leadership of the southern states to that point in the American Revolution had failed, as the British held all major southern cities, including the important port city of Charleston....
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 armies...
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 others...
University of Leiden, 2007. — 135 p. Интересная монография голландского ученого (на английском языке) посвящена исследованию такой малоизвестной темы, как колониальная Война Голландской Ост-Индской Компании (ОИК) в Индии против местных колониальных владений Португалии и Англии. Автор много внимания уделил изучению структуры военного командования ОИК, обладавшей в Индии и Индонезии...
TAMU Press, 2001. — 234 p. The American military establishment is intimately tied to its technology, although the nature of those ties has varied enormously from service to service. The air force evokes images of pilots operating hightech weapons systems, striking precisely from out of the blue to lay waste to enemy installations. The fundamental icon for the Marine Corps is a...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2020. — 400 p. George Armstrong Custer, one of the most familiar figures of nineteenth-century American history, is known almost exclusively as a soldier, his brilliant military career culminating in catastrophe at Little Bighorn. But Custer, author James E. Mueller suggests, had the soul of an artist, not of a soldier. Ambitious Honor elaborates...
Soldiershop Publishing, 2018. — 94 p. After more than half-a-century of wars in Hungary, the conflict between the Habsburgs and the Sublime Porte explodes in 1593, after a series of border incidents. The confrontation was soon regarded as crucial by both sides, also involving the neighbouring states in a complex and ruthless game of diplomacy and betrayal. The organization and...
Soldiershop Publishing, 2018. — 82 p. After more than half-a-century of wars in Hungary, the conflict between the Habsburgs and the Sublime Porte explodes in 1593, after a series of border incidents. The confrontation was soon regarded as crucial by both sides, also involving the neighbouring states in a complex and ruthless game of diplomacy and betrayal. The organization and...
Soldiershop, 2011. — 80 p. La guerra di Candia (1645-1669) fu il luogo di confronto di due diversi modelli militari, quello occidentale e quello ottomano, fino ad assurgere nelle corti di tutta Europa a "Campo di Marte" del continente. A noi contemporanei queste campagne mostrano una specifica peculiarità, in quanto rappresentano la prima "guerra di materiali", ovvero un...
Soldiershop, 2012. — 80 p. La guerra di Candia fu il luogo di confronto di due diversi modelli militari, quello occidentale e quello ottomano, fino ad assurgere nelle corti di tutta Europa a 'Campo di Marte' del continente. A noi contemporanei queste campagne mostrano una specifica peculiarità, in quanto rappresentano la prima 'guerra di materiali', ovvero un conflitto...
Luca Cristini Editore (Soldiershop), 2019. — 80 p. — (War in Colour 004) La formazione militare dell'eroe dei due mondi iniziò negli anni in cui entrò al servizio della repubblica secessionista del Rio Grande do Sul. Nonostante l'ampia pubblicistica riguardante le imprese di Garibaldi e la nascita del suo mito, gli anni trascorsi nel continente americano sono quelli meno...
Helion and Company, 2018. — 288 p. A considerable part of the military history of the 17th century is dominated by the conflict between the Christian powers and the Ottoman Empire. Much has been written about the politics and the campaigns that led to the siege of Vienna in 1683 and the defeat suffered by the Sultan's armies, while, until today, there are relatively few studies...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 276 p. Prolific Italian artist and author, Bruno Mugnai introduces the Dutch Army of the third quarter of the 17th century in the first of a new 8 volume series that covers the armies of early years of Louis XIV reign. France and the United Provinces represented opposite models of state government during the 17th century. The contrary nature of their...
Helion and Company. 2019 — 276 p. Prolific Italian artist and author, Bruno Mugnai introduces the Dutch Army of the third quarter of the 17th century in the first of a new 8 volume series that covers the armies of early years of Louis XIV reign. France and the United Provinces represented opposite models of state government during the 17th century. The contrary nature of their...
Helion and Company. 2019 — 162 с. Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. Итальянский художник и автор Bruno Mugnai представляет голландскую армию третьей четверти XVII века в первом из новых 8 томов серии, которая охватывает армии первых лет правления Людовика XIV. Франция и Соединенные провинции представляли собой противоположные модели государственного управления в XVII веке....
Helion & Company, 2021. — 400 p. It has been a commonly-held historical belief that in the second half of the 17th century the Spanish army suffered such catastrophic defeats that it effectively brought about the collapse of the state as a major player on the European stage. The wars fought out in Catalonia, Franche Comté, Flanders and Italy resulted in a series of substantial...
Helion & Company, 2021. — 204 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 №78) In December 1640, the native dynasty of Braganza ascended to the Portuguese Throne. This event heralded the end Spanish domination in Portugal that had started in 1580. Following the Restoration, an ill-prepared Portuguese David found itself having to face a tormented but not exhausted Spanish Goliath....
Helion Company, 2021. — 138 с. Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. После Реставрации плохо подготовленный португальский Давид оказался лицом к лицу с измученным, но не истощенным испанским Голиафом. Новая национальная армия была сформирована за такой короткий период времени, что ее можно считать почти уникальной в европейской военной истории. Развитие вооруженных сил Португалии в...
Helion & Company, 2019. — 321 p. During the 17th century, Europe experienced only four years of general peace: 1610 and 1680-82. This scenario of almost continuous strife provided the terrain for the rise of the standing professional armies. The states were eager to avoid a repetition of the chaos and destruction that had plagued Europe during the Thirty Years’ War, and...
Helion & Company, 2019. — 271 p. Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. В XVII веке Европа пережила всего четыре года всеобщего мира: 1610 и 1680-82. Этот сценарий почти непрерывной борьбы обеспечил почву для подъема постоянных профессиональных армий. Государства стремились избежать повторения хаоса и разрушений, которые преследовали Европу во время Тридцатилетней войны, и поэтому...
Helion & Company, 2020. — 360 p. Conflicts between Christian powers and the Ottoman Empire displayed completely different characteristics compared to other contemporary wars fought in Europe, war without mercy being the norm. The tones adopted by Western literature to describe the Ottomans resemble the ones recently used against the communist bloc and the Soviet Union, and it...
Yale University Press, 2000. — 355 p. What was it like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield? What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another? What did the generals do during battle? Drawing on memoirs, diaries and letters of the time, this book explores what actually happened in battle and how the participants' feelings and reactions influenced the...
Rutgers University Press, 1999. — 304 p. — (Warfare and History). Ottoman Warfare is an impressive and original examination of the Ottoman military machine, detailing its success in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Focusing primarily on the evolution of the Ottoman military organization and its subsequent impact on Ottoman society in a period of change, the book...
Texas University Press, 2014. — 336 p. The opening campaign of the US-Mexican War transformed the map of each nation and shaped the course of conflict. Armed with a broad range of Mexican military documents and previously unknown US sources, Douglas Murphy provides the first balanced view of early battles such as Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. He reassesses previously...
ABC-CLIO, 2022. — 326 p. This work provides an overview of the Indian Wars from the arrival of Europeans until 1890. The work focuses primarily on Native American tribes and warriors and their role in battles and campaigns against other Native Americans and Europeans/Americans, while also including key European/American leaders and soldiers as well as treaties between Native...
Library of Alexandria, 2021. — 500 p. This book was firstly published in 1862. The Author gratefully acknowledges the assistance freely rendered him in this compilation by many Officers of the Regiments described. He feels also considerably indebted to many very valuable works, on the same and kindred subjects, for much of his information. Unfortunately, many of these volumes...
Potomac Books, 2014. — 330 p. Nicholas Murray's The Rocky Road to the Great War examines the evolution of field fortification theory and practice between 1877 and 1914. During this period field fortifications became increasingly important, and their construction evolved from primarily above to below ground. The reasons for these changes are crucial to explaining the landscape...
Bames & Noble, 1982. — 319 p. Rob Roy MacGregor, Scotland’s most romantic, elusive hero, was an outlaw and a life-long enemy of Montrose. So well-known was he that no one thought to write down a physical description of him, or any direct record of his childhood and youth. Thus tracking down Rob Roy today is to embark upon a painstaking search through archives, estate records...
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 serving...
DiG, 2006. — 364 p. Autor diariusza spisywał go na gorąco w trakcie kampanii smoleńskiej, co potwierdzają wpisy dzienne opisywanych wydarzeń. Jest to typ diariusza kancelaryjnego, gdyż obok narracji prezentującej wydarzenia pod Smoleńskiem widzimy zamieszczoną chronologicznie korespondencję osób uczestniczących w tej kampanii, informujących przyjaciół, rodzinę czy dygnitarzy...
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...
Indian Institute of World Culture Press, 1985. — 47 p. Rockets, or "fire-arrows" in some form, have been known for a long time: the Chinese are recorded as having used them in 1232 A.D., and the Europeans in the 14th and 15th centuries. After having fallen into disuse with the invention and improvement of cannon, rockets reemerged in the Mysore of Hyder and Tipu in the second...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 312 p. Throughout the ages, more combatants and civilians have died in war of the effects of starvation and resulting disease than have been killed by bullet or bomb. The author of this fascinating work argues that, over the last 160 years, conflicts have been decided not just on the battlefield but by the denial of an adversary’s access to food....
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 312 p. Throughout the ages, more combatants and civilians have died in war of the effects of starvation and resulting disease than have been killed by bullet or bomb. The author of this fascinating work argues that, over the last 160 years, conflicts have been decided not just on the battlefield but by the denial of an adversary’s access to food....
Greenwood Press, 2006. — 227 p. This is the story of the evolution of the citizen army throughout Western nations during the nineteenth century and up through World War I. The French Revolution had brought to Europe the concept of military service as a citizen responsibility. Until then, armies and navies had been the province of the upper classes and of mercenaries, with...
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...
Ashgate, 2010. — 358 p. In his groundbreaking book The British Way in Warfare (Routledge, 1990), David French outlined the skillful combination of maritime, economic and diplomatic power employed by Britain to achieve its international goals. Almost two-decades later, this collection offers a reassessment of French's thesis, using it as a lens through which to explore Britain's...
Westholme Publishing, 2021. — 328 p. While it is in the eastern United States where most Americans identify our military history, the vast, resource-rich Pacific Northwest, stretching from Northern California through British Columbia, endured a series of battles and wars over the course of the nineteenth century that were of regional and national importance. It was here where...
Greenwood Press, 1978. — 177 p. The period from the Indian wars to World War I saw the evolution of the U.S. Army from a 25,000 man frontier constabulary to a modern professionally led two million man force fighting in a coalition war in Europe. This study describes the context within which the Leavenworth schools--begun in 1881--evolved.
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 British...
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...
St. John’ s Press, 2015. — 56 p. The fifteen years that preceded the outbreak of the American Civil War were eventful ones for the U.S. Army. After invading and defeating Mexico, the Army dispersed across the vast Western frontier undertaking a myriad of duties. It subdued American Indian tribes, explored and governed new territories, and generally worked to maintain peace....
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 224 p. General Gordon’s death in Khartoum on 26 January 1885 - and the fall of the besieged city to the forces of the Mahdi - was a crucial episode in British imperial history. It was deeply controversial at the time, and it still is today. Gordon has routinely been depicted as the hero of the story, in contrast to Prime Minister Gladstone who is...
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...
Éditions du Boréal, 2018. — 397 p. Le général Louis-Joseph de Montcalm est aujourd’hui tenu pour l’unique responsable de la déroute française du 13 septembre 1759 sur les plaines d'Abraham. Emporté par sa fougue, cet adepte des batailles rangées à l’européenne aurait fait basculer une victoire facile en défaite écrasante en ordonnant une charge frontale contre les forces de son...
Westport; London: Greenwood Press, 2008. — 607 p. — ISBN: 978–0–313–33046–9. 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...
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 288 p. The colonisation of Southeast Asia was a long and often violent process where numerous military campaigns were waged by the colonial powers across the region. The notion of racial difference was crucial in many of these wars, as native Southeast Asian societies were often framed in negative terms as 'savage' and 'backward' communities...
Almena Liberia Editorial, 2020. — 85 p. — (Guerreros y batallas - 138) La Batalla de Empel, llamado en España como Milagro de Empel, ocurrió los días 7 y 8 de diciembre de 1585 durante la Guerra de los Ochenta Años, en la que un Tercio del ejército español, el Tercio Viejo de Zamora, comandado por el maestre de campo Francisco Arias de Bobadilla, se enfrentó y derrotó en...
Società Italiana di Storia Militare, 2020. — 454 p. — (Storia Militare Moderna). Nuova Antologia Militare (NAM) ideally refers to «Antologia Militare», the oldest Italian military journal, published in Naples by Antonio and Girolamo Calà Ulloa between 1835 and 1846. NAM wants to be an interdisciplinary and international forum (see Aim) for the historical study of conflicts, war...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 201 p. This book is the only dedicated study available in English that covers all of the armed factions that took part in the Wars of Religion as well as the whole period of these conflicts. It draws on contemporary French, Spanish and English accounts, as well as the best of more recent scholarship, to provide an account of the Wars and armies that...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. — 265 p. Who Became an Officer? ‘I was born into an Army family’: Irish Officers and the Family Tradition. ‘A great training school for the army’: Irish Officers and the School Influence. ‘We were an unwanted surplus’: Irish Medical Emigration and the British Forces. ‘We were all Paddys’: the Irish Experience of the British Forces. ‘The irreconcilable...
Routledge, 1992. — 233 p. From the middle of the sixteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century, the Baltic sea was the scene of frequent conflicts between the powers that surrounded it. As the fortunes in the struggles changed, so did the composition of opposing alliances and the identity of the leading participants. Not only were there littoral states concerned by the...
Helion Company, 2018. — 228 p. There has not been an account of the first attempt made in Scotland to restore the exiled Stuarts at the end of the seventeenth century for three decades; most accounts stop with the death of the movement’s first leader, ‘Bonnie Dundee’. This book is the first full length account of the military struggle between forces loyal to the newly...
Routledge, 2015. — 255 p. The military aspects of the Jacobite campaigns in eighteenth-century Britain are considered in this study. Taken from the viewpoint of those loyal to the Hanoverian Crown, the three mainland campaigns of 1715–1716, 1719 and 1745–1746 are examined, using research based on primary sources: memoirs, diaries, letters, newspapers and State papers.
Helion and Company, 2021 — 207 p. There were more sieges than there were battles during the Jacobite campaign in Scotland and England in 1745-1746, yet no one work has concentrated on these episodes. Siege warfare was more common than set piece battles in Europe at this time and the ‘45 was no exception. There were two sieges of both Ruthven Barracks and of Carlisle, whilst the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 196 p. Butcher' Cumberland is portrayed as one of the arch villains of British history. His leading role in the bloody defeat of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745 and his ruthless pursuit of Bonnie Prince Charlie's fugitive supporters across the Scottish Highlands has generated a reputation for severity that has endured to the present day. He has even...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 265 p. Whilst much has been written about the Jacobites, most works have tended to look at the Rebellion of 1745, rather than the earlier attempt to reinstate the Stuart dynasty. As such this book provides a welcome focus on events in 1715, when Jacobites in both England and Scotland tried to oust George I and to replace him with James Stuart. In...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 207 p. There were more sieges than there were battles during the Jacobite campaign in Scotland and England in 1745-1746, yet no one work has concentrated on these episodes. Siege warfare was more common than set piece battles in Europe at this time and the ‘45 was no exception. There were two sieges of both Ruthven Barracks and of Carlisle, whilst...
Amsterdam University Press, 2020. — 310 p. The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to Early-Modern European expansion? Was European fortification design as important for Early-Modern expansion as has been argued? This book takes...
Oświęcim: Napoleon V, 2014. — 245 s. Traktat "O bagażach wojska w polu będącego" jest pierwszą nowożytną pracą naukową poświęconą w całości zagadnieniu taboru wojskowego. Dzieło to napisał w 1769 r. w Warszawie Antoni Leopold Oelsnitz - były oficerem armii pruskiej sprowadzony jako nauczyciel do utworzonego przez Stanisława Augusta Poniatowskiego Korpusu Kadetów. Po 245 latach...
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...
Bridget Williams Books, 2019. — 272 p. The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nation’s history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Māori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual fighting. Physical remnants or...
Borodino Books, 2018. — 224 p. The subject has received very imperfect treatment by technical historians, who generally hurry on to the days of Gustavus Adolphus and Cromwell, Turenne and Marlborough—concerning whom there is much narrative and comment. But there is little or none on Gonsalvo de Cordova, Alexander Farnese, or Henry of Navarre. As long as my time was to a great...
Manchester University Press, 1990. — 260 p. The economics of power projection can be complicated. After WWI, the UK inherited much of the tattered Ottoman Empire. Broken by the war, it lacked conventional means to manage the Imperial responsibility. The young RAF devised a strategy for air policing in cheap aircraft and bid to supplant the Navy and Army across a swath of the...
Four Courts Press, 2017. — 336 p. The Nine Years War was one of the most traumatic and bloody conflicts in the history of Ireland. Encroachment on the liberties of the Irish lords by the English crown caused Hugh O’Neill, earl of Tyrone, to build an unprecedented confederation of Irish lords leading a new Irish military armed with pike and shot. This book is an important...
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 factor...
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
Officine Ferrari, 1912. — 95 p. I Corsi che servirono sotto le insigne délia Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, hanno lasciato nel giorioso passato di essa ricordi che sarebbe ingiusto, non rievocare, per oui m'aecinsi a ricercare fra le carte del nostro Archivio di Stato quanto ho potuto e mi.è sembrato degno di nota perche anche il ricordo di queste nostre genti forti ed...
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1981. — 330 p. La guerra anglo-española (1585-1604) fue un conflicto bélico entre los reinos de Inglaterra, gobernada por Isabel I de Inglaterra, y de España, donde reinaba Felipe II. La guerra comenzó con victorias inglesas como la de Cádiz en 1587, y la pérdida de la Armada Invencible en 1588, pero diversas victorias españolas como la...
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...
INFORTeditons, 2006. — 114 p. — (Pola Bitew №6) Niniejsza publikacja poświęcona jest działaniom militarnym, jakie toczyły się na ziemiach Ukrainy w drugiej połowie 1660 roku. Książka porusza problemy dotąd niezwykle powierzchownie i jednostronnie opracowane, a w szczególności kwestie związane ze starciem wojsk polsko-tatarskich z armią kozacką Jerzego Chmielnickiego,...
Leiden, Brill, 2007. — 390 p. — (History of Warfare. Volume 41). 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...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 264 p. This book uncovers the history of The Volunteers, a Spanish loyalist militia who were committed to upholding Spanish imperial interests and influence in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santa Domingo and The Philippines as the age of empire came to a close. Unpicking the relationship between local and imperial administrations and highlighting the...
Helion and Company. 2018 — 113 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №18) During the 18th Century, the Electorate of Saxony was a rich state of the Holy Roman Empire. Northern Saxony was one of most fertile parts of Germany, though fertility diminishes toward Ore Mountains of the south where Saxony long had important mineral production. The House of Wettin ruled Saxony...
Helion and Company. 2019 — 150 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №36) During the 18th Century, the Electorate of Saxony was a rich state of the Holy Roman Empire. Northern Saxony was one of most fertile parts of Germany, though fertility diminishes toward the Ore Mountains of the south where Saxony long had important mineral production. The House of Wettin ruled Saxony...
Pen and Sword, 2001. — 254 p. Distinguished British historians and past members of the Regiment celebrate the 350th anniversary of this famous British Guard Regiment with a lavishly illustrated account of its long history in war and peace. Familiar to tourists at Buckingham Palace, the Coldstream Guards are also a fully operational combat unit. The regiment played a key role at...
Poznań: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, 1997. — 280 s. Wstęp. Na polach Warny. Państwo sułtanów. Jagiellonowie a Turcja. Żółkiewski pod Cecorą. Chocim w 1621 r. Tatarzy. Sojusz z Tatarami. Turcja w XVII w. Nieszczęsny rok 1672. Chocimskie zwycięstwo w roku 1673. Lwów i Trembwola. Żórawińskie boje. Sobieski pod Wiedniem. Pościg. Kilka słów o stosunkach polsko-tureckich w ciągu wieków....
Instituto de Historia Militar Argentina, 2005. — 296 p. El Ejército Argentino, al igual que la Iglesia Católica y las provincias, es anterior a la República. Instituciones que son la cuna, por así decirlo, en donde nació a la faz de la tierra "una nueva y gloriosa Nación", símbolo de esa indoblegable raza americana forjada para la libertad. El aserto se confirma con solo...
University of Alabama Press, 2000. — 320 p. An exciting and accurate portrayal of the military action in the southern colonies that led to a new American nation. A companion to Pancake’s study of the northern campaign, 1777: The Year of the Hangman, this volume deals with the American Revolution in the Carolinas. Together, the two books constitute a complete history of the...
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. 2021 — 356 p. The campaigns of the War of the Spanish Succession in Flanders and Germany are well known in the English-speaking world. Those are fought in Spain are perhaps less so. However, the Italian front of the conflict is almost unheard of. Although there were no Allied armies fighting in Italy, William III considered the front more important that the...
Helion and Company. 2021 — 326 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. Кампании Войны за испанское наследство во Фландрии и Германии хорошо известны в англоязычном мире. Те, что велись в Испании, возможно, менее известны. Однако итальянский фронт конфликта почти неизвестен. Хотя в Италии не было союзных армий, сражавшихся в Италии, Вильгельм III считал фронт более важным, чем...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 356 p. The campaigns of the War of the Spanish Succession in Flanders and Germany are well known in the English-speaking world. Those are fought in Spain are perhaps less so. However, the Italian front of the conflict is almost unheard of. Although there were no Allied armies fighting in Italy, William III considered the front more important that the...
Helion and Company. 2019 — 216 p. The Italian Front of the Nine Year has been completely neglected by Italian and other European Historians. It is often assumed that the conflict was fought solely in Flanders and the Rhineland, and by mainly North West European Armies. This was not so. William of Orange, the driving force of the Grand Alliance in the fight against the French,...
Helion and Company. 2019 — 199 p. — Перевод: Крючков Ю.Н. Война Аугсбургской лиги, также известная как Девятилетняя война и война короля Вильгельма (в честь Вильгельма III), получила недостаточно внимания из-за тенденции фокусироваться на последующей войне за Испанское наследство. Это досадно на ряде уровней, хотя это создало замечательную возможность для Чиро Паолет его...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 216 p. The Italian Front of the Nine Year War has been completely neglected by Italian and other European Historians. It is often assumed that the conflict was fought solely in Flanders and the Rhineland, and by mainly North West European Armies. This was not so. William of Orange, the driving force of the Grand Alliance in the fight against the...
Oświęcim: Napoleon V, 2013. — 221 s. — ISBN 978-83-7889-196-3 Autor hobbystycznie zajmuje się badaniem wojskowości europejskiej z XVII wieku, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem konfliktów Rzeczypospolitej ze Szwecją. W związku z tym, udało mu się zgromadzić sporo materiałów źródłowych na ten temat. W tej pracy postanowił je opublikować i tym samym podzielić się nimi z szerszym...
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. As...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 251 p. Earlier Polish experience from the war against Ottoman Turks in 1672-1676 made their contribution vital for the coalition’s war effort in 1683. No surprise then, that Sobieski was chosen as commander of the joint forces and that the Poles deployed on the ancient place of honour in an army’s order of battle – on the right wing. Many Polish...
Grupo Anaya Publicaciones Generales, 2003. — 376 p. Una crónica bastante prolija de la evolución del Ejército de Flandes durante sus años de apogeo por parte de un autor riguroso y eficaz. Se lee con agrado pero no resulta nada amigable para quienes no estén familiarizados con los acontecimientos de la época a partir de otras fuentes. Además el autor se centra por completo en...
Cambridge University Press, 1975. — 309 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History). The publication of "The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road" in 1972 marked the birth of the "new military history", which emphasized military organization-mobilization, pay, supply, morale and, above all, logistics-rather than military "events" such as sieges and battles. Constantly...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 285 p. Well before the Industrial Revolution, Europe developed the superior military potential and expertise that enabled her to dominate the world for the next two centuries. In this attractively illustrated and updated edition, Geoffrey Parker discusses the major changes in the military practice of the West during this time...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 627 p. It is assumed widely that "war made the state" in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study challenges the traditional interpretations of the role of the army as an instrument of the emerging absolutist state, and shows how the expansion of the French war effort contributed to weakening Richelieu's hold on France and heightened levels...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 514 p. This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whereas previous accounts have emphasized the growth of state-run armies during this period, David Parrott argues instead that the delegation of military responsibility to sophisticated and...
Saqi Books, 2017. — 254 p. The definitive biography of the military leader who stood at the center of Arab politics for four decades. Revered by some as the Arab Garibaldi, maligned by others as an intriguer and opportunist, Fawzi al-Qawuqji manned the ramparts of Arab history for four decades. As a young officer in the Ottoman Army, he fought the British in World War I and won an...
Independent Publishers, 2021. — 88 p. The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States and its allies, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and its dependent colonies in North America and indigenous allies. Great Lakes and Western Territories. American Northwest, 1813. Niagara frontier, 1813. St. Lawrence and Lower Canada, 1813. Niagara and...
Roli Books, 2017. — 125 p. Peshwa Baji Rao (1700-1740), the great Maratha general and statesman, changed the map of India in the mid eighteenth century.His military campaigns were classic examples of his genius. In the mayhem of the religious intolerance continued by the tottering Mughals after Aurangzeb, Baji Rao stood out as the champion of Hinduism. He conquered Gujarat and...
Stuart Press, 1995. — 56 p. This book sets out to study the types and nature of the clothing worn by English and Welsh common soldiers of the period 1639-1646 serving in the British Isles. This involves primarily the two Bishop's Wars in 1639 and 1640, the troops suppressing the Irish revolt from 1641 onwards and most importantly the First English Civil War from 1642 to 1646....
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 615 p. It was the war that changed everything, and yet it’s been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels. It inspired mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As the British Navy sailed into the Mediterranean for a white-knuckle showdown with Italian...
University of Chicago Press, 1958. — 235 p. The American victory in the Revolutionary War came as a surprise to people all over the world. Believing that successful wars were fought by professionals and aristocrats, they could not understand how ragged and hungry troops of ill-assorted civilians were able to defeat one of the world's strongest professional armies. This book is...
Foundry Books, 2011. — 77 p. This is the second volume in Foundry's projected series describing the armies of the era of exploration in sub-Saharan Africa. Following a similar format to its predecessor, it covers the area now largely occupied by the countries of Gabon, the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, and Malawi....
Foundry Books, 2003. — 184 p. Principally covering Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, this volume deals with the native peoples of East Africa and the Arabs and Europeans who variously fought, explored, and raided there in the course of the 19th century. The detailed text provides the dress, arms, organisation, and tactics of the protagonists, and includes sections on the...
The History Press, 2017. — 192 p. Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana, both 1879, are undoubtedly the most famous of Britain's imperial battles, the former the subject of one of the nation's top war movies, Zulu, even if it wasn't actually filmed there. With South Africa becoming a more popular tourist destination, never has there been a better time to visit these iconic battlefields...
Greenhill Books, 2021. — 224 p. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes in military history. In the morning, 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed the British invading force in one of the greatest disasters ever to befall a British army. Later the same day, a Zulu force of around 3,000 warriors turned their attention to a small outpost at Rorke’s...
Greenhill Books, 2021. — 224 p. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes in military history. In the morning, 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed the British invading force in one of the greatest disasters ever to befall a British army. Later the same day, a Zulu force of around 3,000 warriors turned their attention to a small outpost at Rorke’s...
Pen and Sword Military, 2011. — 240 p. In The African Wars , Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of tropical and subtropical Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His pioneering and authoritative study describes in vivid detail the organization and training of African...
I.B. Tauris, 1995. — 224 p. While popular images of the British Raj are saturated with images and memories of military campaigns, remarkably few scholarly studies have considered the direct impact that the army exerted on the day-to-day operations of the British in India. Douglas Peer's book demonstrates not only how important the army was to the establishment of British...
Helion and Company, 2016. — 214 p. In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the military history of the English Civil War and its associated conflicts in Ireland and Scotland. Historians are increasingly paying attention to the ‘actualities of war’ (to use Sir Basil Liddell Hart’s phrase) during these conflicts, and this has given rise to an accompanying...
Routledge, 2020. — 305 p. Philip Skippon was the third-most senior general in parliament’s New Model Army during the British Civil Wars. A veteran of European Protestant armies during the period of the Thirty Years’ War and long-serving commander of the London Trained Bands, no other high-ranking parliamentarian enjoyed such a long military career as Skippon. He was an author...
Middle East and North African Studies Press, 1986. — 295 p. The Rif War, which took place in Northern Morocco between 1921 and 1926 and which almost shattered Spain's protectorate there, as well as threatening France's hold over the rest of Morocco, is, perhaps the most important anti-colonial struggle of the pre-World War II era.
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 376 p. Jews and the Military is the first comprehensive and comparative look at Jews' involvement in the military and their attitudes toward war from the 1600s until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Derek Penslar shows that although Jews have often been described as people who shun the army, in fact they have frequently been...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 363 p. This book explores the attitudes of the Spanish army officer corps towards the evolution of warfare during the early decades of the twentieth century, and their influence on the armies of the Spanish Civil War. It examines how the Spanish military coped with technological innovations such as the machine gun and the tank, how it adapted the...
Weidenfeld Military, 1993. — 240 p. This book presents a collection of eleven true stories from the battlefield - each a testament to bravery in the face of superior odds. The stories are collected from various conflicts and wars including: the British/Hanoverian advance against the French at Minden, past Balaclava, Gettysburg, the Franco-Prussian war, the Falklands, World War...
Pen and Sword Military, 2013. — 252 p. This book examines the history of the German Army which, for the best part of two centuries, influenced the course of events in Continental Europe. It was an army that studied the conduct of war at the highest levels, planning for the destruction of its opponents during the early stages of a war. On some occasions, this principle succeeded...
ABC Books, 2018. — 388 p. The son of a country butcher, Stan Savige left school at twelve to become a blacksmith's striker. But in 1915, a passage in the bible inspired the devout scout leader and Sunday school teacher to enlist. Soon his abilities as a crack marksman attracted the attention of the officers and he was put in charge of Sniper's Ridge, his job to eliminate the...
Kent State University Press, 2004. — 327 p. General Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was arguably the premier soldier of his era. More than any other, he was responsible for the professionalization of the U.S. Army during his long military career (1807-1861). He served as general in the War of 1812, commander of the U.S. forces it the final campaign of the war with Mexico, and...
McFarland and Company, 2007. — 308 p. For a hundred years, Sweden was the international military power of Northern Europe, in control of the entire Baltic region and among the first to colonize in Africa and America. But the history of Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, and Prussia is largely neglected in American classrooms and scholarship. This book fills a large...
Vij Books, 2018. — 210 p. Friends sometimes have problems with one another, the reasons are myriad, because after all, they are human beings and therefore subject to all of humanities foibles, and since that is the case, if two people can have a disagreement, so can two nations. This book relates the situation between two of these countries, the United States and France. Twenty...
Vij Books, 2016. — 104 p. By definition, a mercenary is a person who fights for personal gain or money instead of fighting for the ideological interests of a country. Since this individual also could serve in several foreign army’s, he could also be considered a professional soldier. Gustave Cluseret does not fit into this classic definition. While, as a soldier he served in...
Routledge, 2022. — 234 p. — (The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources, and Memory). In 1522, the Ottomans attacked the island of Rhodes and, after a six-month siege, the Hospitallers surrendered on terms. The Knights Hospitaller had ruled Rhodes since 1309, and the Ottomans had attempted to capture the island 40 years before in 1480, but were defeated by the Knights. The...
Routledge, 2022. — 235 p. — (The Military Religious Orders: History, Sources, and Memory). In 1522, the Ottomans attacked the island of Rhodes and, after a six-month siege, the Hospitallers surrendered on terms. The Knights Hospitaller had ruled Rhodes since 1309, and the Ottomans had attempted to capture the island 40 years before in 1480, but were defeated by the Knights. The...
Casemate, 2016. — 288 p. History plays tricks sometimes. During the course of America’s experience it has enshrined an exceptional few military leaders in our collective consciousness as “great,” while ignoring others often equally as deserving. In the Shadows of Victory takes a look at an array of American battlefield commanders who were as responsible for triumph as their...
Oriental Publishers, 1978. — 392 p. Full scan of the book, except for pages 364 and 365, which are missing (from Bibliography). The Army of the Mughal Empire was the force by which the Mughal emperors established their empire in the 15th century and expanded it to its greatest extent at the beginning of the 18th century. Although its origins, like the Mughals themselves, were...
LRT Editions, 2010. — 146 p. This Pierre Picouet's book has some very valuable material on the soldiers of the Spanish armies from 1600 to 1660 years. How they were organised, equipped, uniformed, and employed. Organisation of the Spanish Infantry isn’t actually restricted to the spanish infantry of the tercios. Weapon and Uniforms of Pikemen, Arquebusiers, and Musketeers, plus...
Helion Company, 2019. — 319 p. The reign of Philip IV of Spain is fascinating, as after a century of dominance in Europe, the Spanish hegemony was seriously challenged by France. At the beginning of Philip IV’s reign, Spanish dominions were vast, not only in Europe but also in South America, Asia and Africa. The defense policy of such vast territories was established in the XVI...
Helion Company, 2019. — 197 с. Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. Правление Филиппа IV Испанского увлекательно, так как после столетия господства в Европе, испанская гегемония была серьезно оспорена Францией. В начале правления Филиппа IV испанские владения были обширны не только в Европе, но и в Южной Америке, Азии и Африке. Политика обороны таких обширных территорий была...
Pike & Shot Society, 2014. — 100 p. In 1640, due to increased pressure from Madrid, an anti-Spanish uprising broke out in Catalonia, also known as the "war of the reapers". The rebels turned for help to Louis XIII, who on this occasion was proclaimed Count of Barcelona. French troops entered Catalan soil, pushed back the Spaniards and occupied the most important cities,...
Pen and Sword, 2022. — 530 p. The 'Defenestration of Prague', the coup d'etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War. When Habsburg Spain intervened in support of their Holy Roman Emperor relative, what had started as a localized political and religious dispute in Germany, transformed into a European and...
Pen and Sword, 2022. — 530 p. The 'Defenestration of Prague', the coup d'etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War. When Habsburg Spain intervened in support of their Holy Roman Emperor relative, what had started as a localized political and religious dispute in Germany, transformed into a European and...
Marseille: Université de Provence, 1997. — 256 p. Прекрасная научная работа французского ученого рассказывает нам о серии боевых кампаний и сражений между венецианской и турецкими армиями в ходе Морейских Войн (1684-1699 и 1715-1718) в южной Греции (Морее). Автор рассматривает строительство (с 1688) линии венецианских оборонительных сооружений на Истмском перешейке (между Аттикой...
Universite de Provence, 2003. 631 pages. Монография французского ученого Эрика Пинцелли является одной из лучших европейских работ, посвященных исследованию двух известных Морейских войн (1684-1699 и 1715-1718), произошедших между Венецианской Республикой и Османской Империей. В книге подробно и детально освещен ход боевых действий на суше (в греческой области Морея) и на море,...
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, Culloden...
Second Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 239 p. The first edition of The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was a revolutionary book. It argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the Jacobite Risings drew on extensive Lowland support and had a national quality within Scotland. The Times Higher Education...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. — 256 p. The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans against...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 345 p. In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution. At the beginning of that period, combat within Europe secured for the early colonial powers the resources and political stability they needed...
Warszawa, Bellona/Rytm, Seria: Najemnicy, 1997. — 190 s. — ISBN: 83-11-08635-4 (Bellona), 83-86678-50-X (Rytm) Niektóre książki aż proszą się o wznowienie ze względu na tematykę oraz słabą dostępność. Do takich pozycji należy „Daj nam, Boże, sto lat wojny” Marka Plewczyńskiego – tytuł, który koniecznie powinien się znaleźć w biblioteczce każdego czytelnika interesującego się...
Seria: Kampanie/bitwy. — Zabrze–Tarnowskie Góry, INFORteditions, 2011. — 460 s. — ISBN: 9788389943828 Opracowanie „Wojny i wojskowość polska XVI wieku” to pierwsza w krajowej historiografii synteza dotycząca problematyki historyczno-wojskowej „złotego wieku” dziejów polskich. W szczegółowym opisie działań zbrojnych Autor uwzględnił wpływ warunków terenowych i sposobu użycia...
Seria: Kampanie/bitwy. — Zabrze–Tarnowskie Góry, INFORteditions, 2012. — 380 s. — ISBN: 9788389943828 Opracowanie „Wojny i wojskowość polska XVI wieku” to pierwsza w krajowej historiografii synteza dotycząca problematyki historyczno-wojskowej „złotego wieku” dziejów polskich. W szczegółowym opisie działań zbrojnych Autor uwzględnił wpływ warunków terenowych i sposobu użycia...
Sheffield: 4th Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers, 1991. — 60 p. Today’s members of the regiment my rightly look back with pride at over130 years of continuous volunteer service within the County. The West Riding has a notable Territorial Army tradition and the 4th Battalion Yorkshire Volunteers (South Yorkshire) succeeded three famous units: The Sheffield Artillery Volunteers...
Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. — 350 p. The Conquest of Morocco tells the story of France's last great colonial adventure. At the turn of the 20th century, Morocco was a nation yet to emerge from the Middle Ages, ruled by local warlords & riven by religious fanaticism. But in the mad scramble for African colonies, Morocco had one great attraction for the Europeans: it was available. In...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2010. — 752 p. The French Foreign Legion is a complete, captivating study of the famed fighting force, from its inception in 1831 to modern times. Historian Douglas Porch chronicles the Legion’s involvement in Spain, Mexico, Indochina, Madagascar, WWI, Vietnam, and Algiers (to name a few) and delves into the inner workings of legionnaires and their...
Amberley Publishing, 2011. — 176 p. The story of the battle of Turnham Green and how 'the sack of London' was prevented by Londoners. As Charles I's army marched on the capital in the autumn of 1642, Nehemiah Wallington, a wood-turner living near London Bridge, wrote in his journal, 'those cruel cavilers doe so plonder and pillage and commit Rapin and use such cruelty that the...
Cornell University Press, 1984. — 288 p. Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. Posen isolates three crucial elements of a given strategic doctrine: its offensive, defensive, or deterrent characteristics,...
Brill, 2011. — 584 p. — (History of Warfare 66). The aim of this book is to explore the neglected subject of the final war between France and England at the end of Henry VIII's and Francis I reigns. The relationship between these two monarchs has long fascinated historians and serious work has been done in the last generation, especially on the earlier period. Rather less has...
Almark Publishing, 1973. — 98 p. The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom. It was part of the wider Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The first (1642–1646) and second (1648–1649) wars pitted...
Pen and Sword, 2015. — 288 p. Regimental histories abound, but few can be as stirring as this story of the fortunes of the famous Yorkshire-based Green Howards. Raised in 1688 in response to a call for loyal troops, the Green Howards have maintained their tradition of loyalty over the past 300 years winning many superb battle honours. Their history reflects that of the British...
Pen and Sword, 2005. — 255 p. A re-examination of Zulu War hero general Sir Redvers Buller, who was blamed for British defeats in the Boer War of 1899-1902. A very good review on the life of General Buller. It is most interesting to see his campaign in South Africa where he came under so much criticism. This last episode of his career was one which he was pitchforked into; even...
Pen and Sword Military, 2004. — 384 p. First World War Generals tend to have dubious reputations and in group photographs of the High Command on the Western Front, one figure stands out as an archetypal Colonel Blimp - smart to a fault, white hair, white moustache, pot-belly. This was Sir Herbert Plumer. But his appearance belies the fact that he was one of the best-performing...
Pen and Sword Books, 2018. — 312 p. This is the first biography of General Sir Edward Bulfin, who rose to high rank despite his Catholic Irish republican background, at a time when sensitivities were pronounced. Not only that but by the outbreak of the Great War, Bulfin was a brigade commander despite having not attended Sandhurst or Staff College and never commanding his...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 162 p. The League of Cambrai was an alliance stipulated in December 1508 between the main European powers with the purpose of halting 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...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 140 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. Камбрейская лига была союзом, заключенным в декабре 1508 года между основными европейскими державами с целью остановить экспансию Венецианской республики. Последовавшая за этим война была одним из главных конфликтов в Итальянских войнах: она длилась с 1508 по 1516 год и прошла в несколько этапов. Основными...
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 every to have invade 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. — 118 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. Ранним утром 24 февраля 1525 года под стенами города Павия лучшие имперцы сражались против одной из крупнейших французских армий, когда-либо вторгавшихся в итальянские государства. Армии под предводительством молодого Франциска I Французского и императора Карла V сражались за желанный приз Миланского...
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 afterwards a sky full of clouds unleashed its fury on a wretched battlefield. That gunshot kicked off a battle which changed warfare and represented the starting point of a raging...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 140 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. 6 июля 1495 года с правого берега реки Таро в долине Джерола, недалеко от Форново (недалеко от Пармы), внезапно раздался выстрел; вскоре после этого небо, полное облаков, обрушило свою ярость на жалкое поле битвы. Этот выстрел положил начало битве, которая изменила ход войны и стала отправной точкой...
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 every to have invade 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. After almost twenty years from the legendary Battle of Pavia, the two most powerful European States faced each other...
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. After almost twenty years from the legendary Battle of Pavia, the two most powerful European States faced each other...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 113 p. — Перевод: Крючков Ю.Н. Апрель 1544 г.: Французская армия под предводительством Карла Бурбона, графа Энгиенского, осаждавшая Кайриньяно, город, занятый имперцами, получила приказ сражаться с Альфонсо д'Авалосом, маркизом Васто, ненавистным соперником имперцев. Спустя почти двадцать лет после легендарной битвы при Павии два самых могущественных...
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 the...
Helion and Company, 2024. — 158 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. В ноябре 1500 года Фердинанд Испанский и Людовик XII Французский подписали секретный Гранадский договор. Это соглашение позволило Испании и Франции легко завоевать и разделить Неаполитанское королевство в 1501 и 1502 годах. Договор разделил Неаполь между двумя странами, однако возникли споры по поводу...
Constable and Company, 1995. — 224 p. How and more importantly why did Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, and his failed campaign of 1745, find such an enduring place in our popular memory. How did a half-Polish prince, born in Rome, and speaking English with an Italian accent, become the Bonnie Prince Charlie of ballad, poem and song? Charles was helped by his outstanding...
Center of Military History, 2016. — 72 p. The Mexican Expedition, 1916–1917, by Julie Irene Prieto, examines the operation, led by General John Pershing, to search for, capture, and destroy Francisco "Pancho" Villa and his revolutionary army in northern Mexico in the year prior to the United States' entry into World War I. This campaign marked one of the final times cavalry was...
Pen and Sword, 2011. — 320 p. Wingate Pasha is the first biography of an eminent Scottish soldier-statesman who contributed much to the development of the Sudan and Egypt during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It tells the story of a man from an impoverished background with a rudimentary education who nonetheless mastered several foreign languages including Arabic. In...
Editora Brasiliense, 1992. — 92 p. Entre 1504 e 1654 os portugueses tiveram de enfrentar outras nações interessadas no espaço econômico americano para consolidar seu domínio efetivo; foram 150 anos de lutas intermitentes. Analisando todos esses episódios podemos concluir que carece totalmente de fundamento a idéia tão disseminada de que a história colonial, tal como a nacional...
Amsterdam: Abraham Wolfgang, 1690. — 562 p. Excerpt from Les Mémoires de Messire Jacques de Chastenet, Chevalier, Seigneur de Puységur, Colonel du Regiment de Piedmont, Et Lieutenant General des Armées du Roy, Vol. 1: Sous les Règnes de Louis XIII. Et de Louis XIV. Aêîions militaires dans Îes Conibute Rencontres Batailles Sieges memora bles ou il s'fi rencontré que ceux qie'...
Zeughaus Verlag GmbH, 2013. — 62 p. — Heere & Waffen 21 Der Große Nordische Krieg (1700-1721) zählt zu den bedeutsamsten militärischen Konflikten des 18. Jahrhunderts. August der Starke, Kurfürst von Sachsen und König von Polen, strebte danach ein starkes mitteleuropäisches Reich aufzubauen. Doch obwohl die sächsische Armee einen guten Ruf als moderne Armee genoss, musste sie...
Zeughaus Verlag GmbH 2014. — 63 S. Als mit dem Prager Fenstersturz der Dreißigjährige Krieg ausgelöst wurde, war Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim ein einfacher, niederer Beamter am kaiserlichen Hof. Innerhalb kürzester Zeit stieg er zu einem der bedeutendsten Reiterführer in diesem Konflikt auf. Er, der vorher keine militärische Ausbildung genossen hatte, entwickelte einen...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 156 p. This is the first detailed study of the origins of the standing Saxon army. Created by elector John George III (r. 1680-1691), it quickly won its laurels in the battle of Vienna (1683) and later in campaigns against the Ottomans and the French. This book gives a broad analysis on this army, dealing with topics like finances and organisation,...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 139 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. Это первое подробное исследование происхождения постоянной саксонской армии. Созданная курфюрстом Иоганном Георгом III (годы правления 1680-1691), она быстро завоевала лавры в битве при Вене (1683), а затем в кампаниях против османов и французов. В этой книге дается широкий анализ этой армии, затрагивающий...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 395 p. Presents the tactics of French warfare throughout the 18th century, describing the creators of their system and their tactical developments. The period from the opening of the War of the Spanish Succession to the meeting of the Estates-General is generally looked upon as a period of decadence in the history of the French Army. Compared...
Michigan State University Press, 1998. — 1028 p. This two-volume work by historian Robert Quimby presents a comprehensive and detailed analysis of military strategy, operations, and management during one of America’s most neglected and least understood military campaigns, the War of 1812. With causes that can be traced to the epic contest against Napoleon in Europe beginning in...
Donzelli Editore, 2003. — 298 p. Nella piena metà del Cinquecento un sovrano intento a celebrare i suoi fasti, il re di Svezia Erik XIV, commissiona all’orefice di Anversa Eliseus Libaerts un’armatura da parata destinata a rimanere tra le più belle mai realizzate: un finissimo cesello ricopre la barda del cavallo con tredici medaglioni che narrano storie di Ercole (equivalente...
Bellona, 2010. — 326 p. Wprawdzie cała Europa poprzednich stuleci niejednokrotnie stawała się teatrem działań wojennych, jednakże są na jej mapie takie szczególne punkty, w których od zawsze „coś” się dzieje. Bez wątpienia jednym z najbardziej zapalnych miejsc w historii europejskiej był i nadal jest Półwysep Bałkański. Ze względu na bogactwo tematu książka ta ogranicza się do...
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 true...
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, they...
Mokomoji knyga. — Vilnius: Generolo Jono Žemaičio Lietuvos karo akademija, 2010. — 255 p.; iliustr. Учебное пособие. Иллюстрированная история военного искусства, на литовском языке. — 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,...
Harper India, 2019. — 256 p. An intelligent communicator and a defender of the faith, Rani Laxmibai (1827-1858) was a capable ruler, sagacious when it came to her people and astute in dealing with her enemies. As the Rani of Jhansi, the widowed queen had to repeatedly face gruelling challenges but drew strength from adversity, relying on her sense of justice, her dignity, and...
Routledge, 2020. — 595 p. This collection of essays examines the evolution of the British Army during the century-long Pax Britannica, from the time Wellington considered its soldiers 'the scum of the earth' to the height of the imperial epoch, when they were highly-respected 'soldiers of the Queen'. The British Army during this period was a microcosm and reflection of the...
ABC-CLIO, 2004. — 423 p. This is a very easy-to-use and highly readable book. It could supplement history collections as well as strengthen the reference sections on the Victorian era and on the British Empire. It would be a good purchase for academic and large public library collections, satisfying both the informal researcher and the serious student. Capturing the strength of...
The History Book Man, 2015. — 247 p. Foreign Regiments in French Service 1795-1814 Volume The Regiments Étrangère & Germanic Regiments was originally published in 1982 and has now been substantially revised and updated with a wealth of new material which was not available when the original edition was published. This first volume covers those foreign legions and regiments with...
The History Book Man, 2017. — 238 p. Previously published in two volumes in 1976 and 1983 both have been out of print since 1984. This new revised and enlarged e-book edition now includes the Regiments Etrangere from Italy, Greece, Croatia and the Balkans, and is illustrated with all new colour artwork and illustrations by well known authoritive and contemporary artists.
The History Book Man, 2017. — 151 p. This popular title was fIrst published in 1974 but has now been considerably enlarged and includes those troops from Portugal and Spain who served with the Army as Troupes Etrangere during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Now includes all new colour artwork and illustrations by well known authoritive and contemporary artists.
The History Book Man, 2017. — 235 p. The first edition of The Army of the Portugal 1808-1814 was published in 1974 as one of the early Pocket Uniform Guides produced by the Historical and Military Research Group Ltd and briefly covered the uniforms of the regular Portuguese Army worn during the Peninsular War campaigns. This new greatly expanded edition now covers the earlier...
The History Book Man, 2013. — 132 p. In 1806, on signing the Treaty of the Confederation of the Rhine, sixteen German states joined in a confederation with Napoleon as its "protector". The Confederation was above all a military alliance: the members had to maintain substantial armies for mutual defense and supply France with large numbers of military personnel. In return for...
The History Book Man, 2014. — 227 p. The Army of The Kingdom of Bavaria Was originally published in 1978 and revised in 1982. This was one of the most popular titles in the 'Armies and Uniforms' series of books written by W. J. Rawkins. This new E-book edition has been completely revised and updated with a wealth of new material which was not available when originally released....
The History Book Man, 2013. — 188 p. In 1806, following decisive victories over the allied armies at Austerlitz and over the Neapolitans at Campo Tenese, Napoleon installed his brother, Joseph as King of Naples. When Joseph was sent off to Spain two years later, he was replaced by Napoleon's sister Caroline and his brother-in-law Marshal Joachim Murat, as King of the Two...
The History Book Man, 2015. — 107 p. New Revised Edition was originally published in 1978 and was substantially revised and updated with a wealth of new material when the new e-book edition was released. In particular a lot of new information was added into the chapters concerning the army and regimental organisation which added considerably to the usefulness of the volume....
The History Book Man, 2015. — 282 p. The Army of the Kingdom of Westphalia 1807-1813 was originally published in 1979 and has now been substantially revised and updated with new material which was not available when the original edition was published and greatly expanded and now contains many of the original colour illustrations which could not be used in the older publications...
The History Book Man, 2015. — 270 p. The work has been has been substantially enlarged aand revised is now illustrated with the original colour artwork which was not used in the earlier monotone publications and selected illustrations many of which are drawn from the work of authoritive established or contemporary artists. This volume looks at the 5 - 7 Regimenter der Rheinbund...
The History Book Man, 2015. — 149 p. The original work has subsequently been substantially revised is now illustrated with the original colour artwork which was not used in the earlier monotone publications and selected illustrations many of which are drawn from the work of authoritive established or contemporary artists. This volume looks at the armies of the Duchy of Nassau,...
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...
The History Press, 2014. — 384 p. An indispensable guide to the British Army during the First World War covers the men who fought for Britain: from the ‘Old Contemptibles’ – the professionals who stemmed the German advance at the beginning of the war – to the Territorials, the ‘Derby Men’, Kitchener’s ‘New Army’ and the conscripts who eventually defeated the Kaiser’s armies...
University Press of Kansas, 1990. — 270 p. The use and abuse of military history is the theme of this book. Historian Carol Reardon scrutinizes the Army's relationship to its own history and traces the Army's attempts, from the end of the Civil War through the Progressive Era, to lay claim to the discipline of military history. "Owning" military history was important to 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.
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 152 p. The victory at Dunbar (1650) of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army over the Scots under General David Leslie merits a major place in the long succession of Anglo-Scottish battles. The Scots had brought Cromwell's invading army to its knees, but Cromwell took the offensive and, in one of the great upsets of military history, the Scots army was routed....
Pen and Sword, 2006. — 152 p. The victory at Dunbar (1650) of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army over the Scots under General David Leslie merits a major place in the long succession of Anglo-Scottish battles. The Scots had brought Cromwell's invading army to its knees, but Cromwell took the offensive and, in one of the great upsets of military history, the Scots army was routed....
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 of...
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, 2018. — 264 p. — ISBN: 978-1-52670-994-3. The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national tragedy, the first battle on the braes of Killiecrankie (1689) was unquestionably the most dramatic. It was very much a Scottish...
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...
Pen & Sword Military, 2005. — 154 p. Culloden Moor is one of the most famous battles in British history and, for the Scots, the battle is pre-eminent, surpassing even Bannockburn. In this decisive and bloody encounter in 1746 the Duke of Cumberland's government army defeated the Jacobite rebels led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Yet, despite the attention paid to this...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 248 p. The first campaign medal awarded to British soldiers is reckoned to be that given to those men who fought at Waterloo in 1815, but a decade and a half earlier a group of regiments were awarded a unique badge – a figure of a Sphinx - to mark their service in Egypt in 1801. It was a fitting distinction, for the successful campaign was a remarkable...
Newthorpe (Nottinghamshire, UK): Partizan Press, 2009. — 112 p. — ISBN: 978-1-85818-587-3. The Highland Clans have long been famed as a warrior race, charging fiercely into battle, sometimes against each other, but more often to set about a thin and uncertain line of English redcoats with their basket-hilted broadswords or two handed claymores. Yet looking for the historical...
Partizan Press, 1989. — 58 p. Killiecrankie has all too often been written of from the Jacobite point of view and seen as a climatic conclusion to the life and adventures of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee. Killiecrankie and subsequent Jacobite risings have also been seen as a fight between Scottish highlanders and English redcoats. Sellar and Yeatman's famous line...
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 of...
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...
Partizan Press. 2003. — 76 p. Die Infanterie-, Kavallerie- und Artillerieeinheiten in der letzten schottischen Armee zwischen 1661 und 1714. In kurzen Abschnitten werden die einzelnen Einheiten mit einem Überblick zu ihrer Geschichte und einigen Namen von Kommandeuren und Offizieren vorgestellt. Einige farbige Tafeln und wenige sw-Zeichnungen demonstrieren die Uniformierung und...
Partizan Press, 1989. — 90 p. In the summer of 1642 the First Civil War between king and parliament had broken out in England. Initially both sides were confident of victory, but after the first campaigns ended in stalemate they began looking for allies. The meddling of the Stuart Kings with Scotland's religious traditions provoked the National Covenant, and later the Solemn...
Frontline Books, 2010. — 256 p. Wellington s Highland Warriors covers the early history of the British Army s Highland regiments, from the raising of the Black Watch in 1739 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815. Stuart Reid provides an entertaining and thoroughly original study of the circumstances in which the regiments were authorised and recruited, not just in the Highlands but...
Penguin Publishing Group, 2001. — 256 p. The Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America's "forgotten war" of 1812. Andrew Jackson led his ragtag corps of soldiers against 8,000 disciplined invading British regulars in a battle that delivered the British a humiliating military defeat. The victory solidified America's independence and marked the beginning of...
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...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2010. — 304 p. Si existe un momento en la historia de España en el que el patriotismo cegó los espíritus de la mayoría de la población, fue este. Breve Historia de la Guerra del 98. España contra Estados Unidos nos narra de un modo excepcional la pérdida de las últimas colonias españolas: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Filipinas, las Islas Carolinas. El momento en que...
Almena Liberia Editorial, 2012. — 93 p. Band 83 der Reihe "Guerreros y Batallas" beschäftigt sich mit der ersten großen Schlacht des Dreißigjährigen Krieges. Die Schlacht am Weißen Berg im Jahre 1620 fand in Böhmen statt und war ein grandioser Sieg für die Kaiserlichen. Der Band beschreibt die Hintergründe des europäischen Konfliktes zwischen 1618 und 1648 und geht besonders...
Almena Liberia Editorial. 2013 — 87 p. Esta batalla puede ser considerada tanto una batalla del conflicto bohemio, dentro del marco de la Guerra de los Treinta Años, o bien un acto más de la Guerra de los Ochenta Años, en el avispero de Flandes y las Provincias Unidas. Aquí veremos quiénes y cómo eran los jefes de ambos ejércitos, en qué contexto tuvo lugar, el dasarrollo de la...
Almena Liberia Editorial. 2014 — 119 p. Posiblemente la Guerra de los Treinta Años fue uno de los más sangrientos conflictos que asolaron Europa hasta el estallido de las dos Guerra Mundiales del siglo XX. La batalla que ahora se trata, Tuttlingen, ha quedado oscurecida por otra que se produjo unos pocos meses antes: Rocroi.Y ello ha sido así porque a la histori ografía...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 208 p. In 1634, the Thirty Years' War had taken a spectacular turn; the great protagonists of 1630 had died: King Gustav Adolf of Sweden and Generals Tilly and Wallenstein. The Swedish army was disoriented without the presence of its charismatic king. Chancellor Oxenstierna was to preserve his legacy, so the Heilbronn League was formed, with various...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 179 p. The Battle of Rocroi (19 May 1643) is famous for the French victory over the Spanish Tercios. The Duc d’Enghien, only 21 years old, defeated a Spanish army commanded by Francisco de Melo. The victory has traditionally been attributed to the military genius of the young Duke, to the superiority of the French cavalry and to the decline of...
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.
Pen and Sword, 2007. — 207 p. Following the May 1857 uprising by sepoys in Meerut and Delhi, the whole future of the British Raj was in the balance. Nowhere was this better demonstrated than at Lucknow and Cawnpore. At the latter a garrison of 240 with 375 British women and children battled to survive a siege by 3,000 mutineers led by Nana Sahib. Unimaginable horrors of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2012. — 207 p. For over 100 years the Distinguished Conduct Medal - the DCM - was the second highest medal that could be awarded for gallantry to the other ranks of the British army and in some cases also the RAF and Royal Navy, yet the holders of this major award have rarely been given the recognition they deserve. And while the heroic exploits of...
Pen & Sword Military, 2024. — 224 p. The opening months of the First World War were the golden sunset for the horsed regiments of the British army. Whether they were Lancers, Hussars or Dragoons, their names were redolent of glory and grandeur. Trained for shock tactics as well as scouting and reconnaissance, several times in 1914 they clashed dramatically with their German...
Pen & Sword Military, 2024. — 224 p. The opening months of the First World War were the golden sunset for the horsed regiments of the British army. Whether they were Lancers, Hussars or Dragoons, their names were redolent of glory and grandeur. Trained for shock tactics as well as scouting and reconnaissance, several times in 1914 they clashed dramatically with their German...
Fulcrum Publishing, 2004. — 255 p. The fifth book in the Notable Westerners Series by Etulain and Riley, Chiefs and Generals presents a collection of newly written essays focusing on noteworthy Indian tribal and white military leaders of the nineteenth-century West. Profiles include Red Cloud, Geronimo, Chief Joseph, Victorio, O. O. Howard, George Custer, George Crook, Ranald...
Helion and Company, 2014. — 234 p. When Charles II returned home he began the search for a dynastic marriage. He fixed upon the Infanta of Portugal, Catherine of Braganza, whose dowry included the possession of Tangier, Bombay and valuable trade concessions. The Portuguese had been fighting for their independence from Spain for twenty years and needed alliances to tip the...
University of Miami Press, 1969. — 338 p. The Era of Absolute Monarchy and Professional Armies. The Christian Concept of the Duties of Rulers and the Power Politics of Frederic the Great. Rational Strategy and War Policy in the Rococo Age - The Goddess of War Tamed. The Revolution in Warfare and War Policy - Napoleon and Clausewitz. Popular Revolt and Cabinet Policy — Gneisenau...
Charles River Editors Press, 2020. — 61 p. For anyone trying to understand the origins of modern Russia and the start of the Russo-Turkish Wars, the search should begin with Tsar Peter I (1672-1725), who titled himself Peter the Great during his lifetime. The moniker is fitting, considering the manner in which Peter brought Russia out of the Middle Ages and into the 18th...
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 Mediterranean...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015. — 228 p. "The Rise of Wellington" is a quality reprint of a 1895 biography of Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, itself the book version of an extended article previously published in the Pall Mall Magazine. The Duke of Wellington, famously victorious at the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, is one of the premier military leaders in British and...
Wesleyan, 2014. — 220 p. This is the dynamic account of one of the most destructive maritime actions to take place in Connecticut history: the 1814 British attack on the privateers of Pettipaug, known today as the British Raid on Essex. During the height of the War of 1812, 136 Royal marines and sailors made their way up the Connecticut River from warships anchored in Long...
Marine Corps University Press, 2020. — 56 p. The Battle of Guantánamo Bay was fought from June 1898, during the Spanish–American War, when American and Cuban forces seized the strategically and commercially important harbor of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Capturing the bay from the Spanish forces was instrumental in the following Battle of Santiago de Cuba and the subsequent invasion...
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,...
Barnes Noble, 2022. — 368 p. It is a common aspect of uncommon men that their lives are so exceptional that they cannot be adequately described in a few words. So much the better then that the author of this autobiography left posterity his remarkable life story. William 'Wully' Robertson was born in Lincolnshire in 1860 and became a servant in the household of the Earl of...
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 - Spain,...
Wallstein Verlag, 2024. — 348 S. — (Polen: Kultur – Geschichte – Gesellschaft 8). Die Revolution von 1848/49 stellte die Habsburgermonarchie vor existentielle Herausforderungen. Nur mit militärischer Gewalt konnte dieser Staat zusammengehalten und die habsburgische Herrschaft im Inneren gesichert werden. Die folgenden Jahre waren gekennzeichnet von einer überragenden Stellung...
Nowtilus, 2015. — 322 p. Los Tercios de Flandes son para muchos la mejor infantería que ha producido nuestro país, pero detrás de ese término hay muchas cosas que aún no conocemos: mitos, pero también realidades e historias muy poco conocidas. Breve historia de los Tercios de Flandes pretende abordar un estudio de los Tercios de Flandes desde una perspectiva poco conocida, la...
Bellona, 1999. — 242 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The French campaign in Egypt and Syria (1798–1801) was Napoleon Bonaparte's campaign in the Ottoman territories of Egypt and Syria, proclaimed to defend French trade interests, seek further direct alliances with Tipu Sultan, weaken Britain's access to India, and to establish scientific enterprise in the region. It was the primary...
Routledge, 1995. — 400 p. This book brings together, for the first time, the classic articles that began and have shaped the debate about the Military Revolution in early modern Europe, adding important new essays by eminent historians of early modern Europe to further this important scholarly interchange.
Routledge, 2017. — 255 p. This book, originally published in 1977 examines in detail the organisation, training, and personnel of the British Army during the eighteenth century, and explains how the government policies of containing the enemy and colonial conquest were achieved. It also illustrates how the Army survived the constant nervousness of Parliament in reducing its...
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...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 256 p. The First and Second Italian Wars describes the course of military operations and political machinations in Italy from 1494 to 1504. The narrative begins with the French conquest of much of Italy. But the French hold collapsed. The second French invasion gained Northern Italy. This time, the French allied with the Pope’s son, Cesare...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 256 p. The First and Second Italian Wars describes the course of military operations and political machinations in Italy from 1494 to 1504. The narrative begins with the French conquest of much of Italy. But the French hold collapsed. The second French invasion gained Northern Italy. This time, the French allied with the Pope’s son, Cesare...
Warszawa: Bellona, 2008. — 187 s. Dlaczego, stojąca u szczytu potęgi Rzeczpospolita szlachecka doznała upokarzających porażek w walce z buntującymi się Kozakami Bohdana Chmielnickiego, jakie okoliczności doprowadziły do klęski wojsk polskich w trzydniowej bitwie pod Warszawą ze Szwedami w 1656 r., czy można było wygrać bitwę pod Maciejowicami? Książka Romualda Romańskiego...
Pen and Sword Books, 2014. — 196 p. General Sir Harry Smith won the lifelong respect and affection of the Duke of Wellington. Famously married to the Spanish beauty, Juana, after the siege of Badajoz in 1812, they served together to the end of the Peninsula war. With the French defeated, Harry left with the British expedition to America in 1814, and witnessed the burning of the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2009. — 224 p. The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. During the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz by Wellington, a 14 year old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married shortly after. From then on their lives and careers were inextricably linked and Juana not only followed her...
Purdue University Press, 1999. — 316 p. Rothenberg's work in the first analytical, full, length study of the Austrian Habsburgs army of Francis Joseph throughout its military history from 1815 to 1918. A Note on Ranks and Names. The Evolution of the Army: Origins to Archduke Charles. The Austrian Army in the Age of Metternich: 1815-1847. Guardians of an Empire: The Army...
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...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 668 p. The relationship between England and Ireland has been marked by turmoil ever since the 5th century, when Irish raiders kidnapped St. Patrick. Perhaps the most consequential chapter in this saga was the subjugation of the island during the 16th century, and particularly efforts associated with the long reign of Queen Elizabeth I, the...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 391 p. The volume analyzes the multidimensional ramifications of the Indian colonial state's armies and simultaneously integrates them with broader social and cultural studies. The present volume initially started as a sequel to "The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939", edited by late professor Partha Sarathi Gupta and Anirudh...
Routledge, 2014. — 395 p. — (Asian States and Empires 8). This book examines the differences and similarities between warfare in China and India before 1870, both conceptually and on the battlefield. By focusing on Chinese and Indian warfare, the book breaks the intellectual paradigm requiring non-Western histories and cultures to be compared to the West, and allows scholarship...
Routledge, 2018. — 298 p. This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 288 p. A substantial amount of work has been carried out to explore the military systems of Western Europe during the early modern era, but the military trajectories of the Asian states have received relatively little attention. This study provides the first comparative study of the major Asian empires' military systems and explores the extent of...
Naval and Military Press, 2016. — 552 p. The Egyptian Campaigns of 1882 to 1885 is a complete narrative of the rise and fall of the Arabist and Mahdist national military movements, as well as a history of England’s intervention in Egypt. A great starting point for anyone interested in this period of history and how the British became embroiled in Egypt. The author, Charles...
Aurum, 2014. — 344 p. The history of the British Army is really the story of its regiments and the men who served in them. From the very beginning they formed the backbone of a singular institution that is itself a reflection of the way the people of Britain view themselves and their collective past. Beginning with the Glorious "revolution" of 1660 and the return to the throne...
Pegasus Books, 2016. — 432 p. The Battle of Culloden in 1746 has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between the English Royal Army and the Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English: the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to...
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...
The History Press, 2016. — 224 p. Royle revises Kitchener's latter day image to reveal a warm-hearted, tender, and caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East, and his attachment to the Arab cause, and on the infamous struggle with Lord Curzon over the army in India. In...
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 Barcelona...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 383 p. On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, thirty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long tradition of rivalry was to come to an end here, in the ruins of Hitler's island...
Brill, 2024. — 364 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume, 147). This book discusses the role Western military books and their translations played in 17th-century Russia. By tracing how these translations were produced, distributed and read, the study argues that foreign military treatises significantly shaped intellectual culture of the Russian elite. It also presents Tsar Peter the...
Einaudi, 1999. — 407 p. Monografia su Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831), generale prussiano, tra i massimi teorici dell'arte della guerra, analizzato in stretto legame col contesto storico delle guerre napoleoniche e dell'ascesa prussiana come potenza europea.
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Oborony Narodowej, 1984. — 220 s. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Wojna o niepodległość Stanów Zjednoczonych toczyła się w latach 1775-1783. Historia opisana w książce, spina klamrą okres czterech lat pomiędzy kluczowymi momentami tej wojny. Pierwszym było odniesione w 1777 roku zwycięstwo regularnych sił amerykańskich nad armią brytyjską w bitwie pod...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 240 p. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as ‘the Lion of Yanina’ and the ‘Balkan Napoleon’, into the consciousness of Western rulers and the general public? This...
New Word City, 2015. — 255 p. In the colonization of North America, Great Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden each sought a share. By the eighteenth century, only Great Britain and France remained as rivals for the heart of the continent. Three times, beginning in 1690, warfare arose between New France and New England. Settlements were destroyed, and armies...
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...
Polity Press, 2016. — 362 p. In this latest addition to the War and Conflict Through the Ages series, Brian Sandberg offers a truly global examination of the intersections between war, culture, and society in the early modern period. He traces the innovative military technologies and practices that emerged around 1500, exploring the different forms of warfare including dynastic...
University of Nebraska Press, 2007. — 457 p. Beginning in 1879 and lasting until 1884, it pitted the Republic of Chile against the combined forces of Bolivia and Peru. This struggle would dramatically alter not merely these nations’ boundaries but their collective memory as well. A triumphant Chile would annex the Bolivian province of Atacama, thereby making La Paz the capital...
University of Nebraska Press, 1999. — 299 p. The Grand Illusion analyzes the impact of European military institutions on Hispanic America in general and examines the putative “Prussianization” of the Chilean army in particular. The authors focus on Chile’s attempt to import and assimilate foreign military methods, doctrine, and materiel. They incorporate research from Chilean,...
Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos Chile, 2016. — 438 p. William Sater continúa su preocupación por el evento militar de 1879. Esta vez entra en la guerra misma y con una minucia sorprendente entra en campañas, batallas y combates, como asimismo en la organización o falta de ella en los tres países involucrados, y la falta de preparación. Los altos mandos son juzgados...
Brill, 2003. — 344 p. — (History of Warfare, Volume 18). This volume explores French partisan warfare in the Spanish Netherlands during the Dutch War (1672-1678). It considers such practices as contributions, fire-raids, and blockades before sieges. The author relies extensively on archival sources, and in many cases explores events that have been passed over by similar...
Pen and Sword Military, 2010. — 240 p. Although many books have been published about the Western Front, few of them look beyond the Great War to consider trench warfare in a wider historical context. Trench warfare was not an aberration of the Western Front. On the contrary, it was a watershed in a greater upheaval in warfare which started in the 1850s and continued well beyond...
Savas Beatie, 2006. — 432 p. This is the first comprehensive account of every engagement of the Revolution, a war that began with a brief skirmish at Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, and concluded on the battlefield at the Siege of Yorktown in October 1781. In between were six long years of bitter fighting on land and at sea. The wide variety of combats blanketed the North...
Aeterna Classics, 2018. — 180 p. The siege of Vienna, in 1529, was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire to capture the city of Vienna, Austria. Suleiman the Magnificent, sultan of the Ottomans, attacked the city with over 100,000 men, while the defenders, led by Niklas Graf Salm, numbered no more than 21,000. Nevertheless, Vienna was able to survive the siege, which...
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...
Random House, 2012. — 264 p. More than a hundred years later, there is still a great interest in Anglo-Boer War literature. It is an event that has captured the imagination of readers more than most other events in South African history have. The book is by far the most comprehensive account of the Hollander volunteers’ participation in the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. At...
Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2003. — 392 p. Every rock, every hill has its story", Winston Churchill wrote of the North-West Frontier, and here is the full story of these turbulent lands. Against a background of the history and geography of the region, the author paints a vivid picture of this extraordinary place. Drawing on written records, soldier's letters, memsahibs' journals,...
Quercus Publishing, 2012. — 352 p. As the oldest of the Highland Regiments, The Black Watch has an enviable roster of Battle Honours and a mystique born of repeated service on behalf of King, Queen and country. On the strength of her acclaimed biography of Field Marshal Earl Wavell, the regimental trustees commissioned Victoria Schofield to write this, the first volume of her...
Helion and Company, 2023. — 336 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721). In 1632, the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) took another turn. Gustavus Adolphus’s triumphal campaign in the Holy Roman Empire was halted at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, where the Imperial-Leaguist Generalleutnant Tilly died of wounds received in the battle Rain am Lech. The former commander of the Imperial army,...
BAR Publishing, 2012. — 264 p. The seventh 'Notebook on Military Archaeology and Architecture' presents the reports of the Congress '1744. La campagna gallispana in Piemonte', which took place in Turin in November 2005. Contributors outlined the main topics relating to the history and archaeology of a military campaign in Piedmont during the War of the Austrian Succession, when...
Societa Piemontese di Archeologia, 2009. — 58 p. La materia trattata nelle Quattre relations è la descrizione minuziosa dell’attività bellica presso le mura della città di Candia, capitale del Regno di Creta, dominio veneziano d’oltremare , durante i mesi a cavallo del 1667 e del 1668, quando l’armata ottomana del gran vizir Ahmed Köprülü si accingeva a dare l’ultima spal lata...
Partizan Press, 2018. — 130 p. King James II inherited a small but well organised regular army and a nationwide system of county militias when he came to the throne in 1685. However, he was a catholic and protestant politicians and exiles worked upon his bastard nephew, James Scott, Duke of Monmouth to invade and lead a rising in the West Country. At the Battle of Sedgemoor...
Partizan Press, 2015. — 82 p. In his political moves to expend his small regular army, James II denigrated his militia, saying they were not up to the job of defending the county, and implying that they were cowardly, ill-disciplined, poorly administrated, badly led, and prone to deserting. James and his senior commanders, in a remarkable piece of political spin, created a...
Pen and Sword Military, 2008. — 192 p. In 1643 and again in 1644 the Royalist forces of King Charles I and Parliament clashed at Newbury in a bloody fight. Each time the fate of the country hung in the balance. Chris Scott retells the story of these two complex and exciting battles and provides a fascinating guided tour of the surviving battlefields. Dr Christopher L. Scott has...
Routledge, 2016. — 356 p. Despite its failure to unseat King James II, the Monmouth Rebellion had a profound influence upon English politics. In particular, it reignited the debate about whether the country should rely on a professional army under direct royal control or local country militias made up of part-time soldiers. King James favoured the former, and used criticism of...
Helion and Company, 2018. — 97 p. One of the most celebrated moments in Scottish history, the Jacobite Rising of 1745 is often romanticized. Drawing on the work of historians and a wide range of contemporary sources, this book seeks to strip away some of the myths surrounding the Jacobites and the Highland army by looking at what they really wore, what they fought with, and...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 89 p. This book throws new light on the men who fought for the Stuarts in Scotland from the beginning of the Jacobite cause in 1689 to Glenshiel in 1719 by drawing on the work of historians and a wide range of primary sources and therefore presenting a picture based on the evidence available. I am minded to rise looks at the variety of clothing and...
Helion and Company. 2023 — 126 p. The Men of Warre examines the clothes, weapons and accoutrements of the Scots at war between 1460 and 1600 using a wide range of sources to present a clear picture of the what the highland and lowland Scots were wearing and fighting with in this crucial and turbulent period in Scotland’s history. Scott has carefully drawn together a myriad of...
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...
Greenwood Press, 1980. — 304 p. An excellent account and analysis of the role of the U.S. Army in this period. Well indexed, footnotes in their proper place; two valuable appendices, one listing the structure of Army commands and the other providing the numbers and locations of the troops for the South during Reconstruction. Certainly one of the best of the many new books on...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981. — 295 p. British regulars were part of Montreal's social, religious, and economic life for more than a century after the first redcoat marched through the Recollet Gate in 1760. In this blend of military and social history, Elinor Kyte Senior examines the garrison's impact on the city in the troubled years 1832-1854. It was during a...
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 of...
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 revolutions,...
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...
St. Martins Press, 1989. — 405 p. Seymour proposes to provide "insight into the anatomy of victory and defeat." He discusses 20 major battles from Zama to Dien Bien Phu, summarizing the action and then analyzing the factors he believes had a clear effect on the outcome. While the individual accounts are lucid, Seymour offers no convincing reason why he chose these particular...
St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 320 p. Americans today have a love/hate relationship with France, but in How the French Saved America Tom Shachtman shows that without France, there might not be a United States of America. To the rebelling colonies, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph. Even before the Declaration of Independence was...
Helion Company, 2022. — 156 p. This book discusses the evolution and changes in Swedish infantry and artillery uniforms during the Great Northern War. Drawing on a number of studies and using evidence based on many surviving documents and artefacts the author reconstructs in detail the appearance of the officers and the other ranks that made up the infantry and artillery of the...
Helion and Company, 2023. — 196 p. — ( Century of the Soldier 1618-1721). This book is a continuation of the special series devoted to the Swedish Army from the time of Charles XII. It examines in detail the uniforms and equipment of the Swedish cavalry during the Great North War. Based on iconographic and written sources, the development, changes, and differences in the...
Helion Company, 2021. — 150 p. In 1529, an army from the Sultanate of Adal in modern-day Somalia invaded neighbouring Ethiopia. For the next fourteen years, the conflict ravaged Ethiopia, planting the seeds of enmity and mistrust in the Horn of Africa that resonate to this day. The Ethiopian-Adal War: The Conquest of Abyssinia brings sixteenth-century Arab, Portuguese, and...
Aurum Press, 2011. — 400 p. Douglas Haig is the single most controversial general in British modern history. In 1918, after his armies had won the First World War, he was feted as a saviour. But within twenty years his reputation was in ruins, and it has never recovered. In this fascinating biography, Professor Gary Sheffield reassesses Haig's reputation, assessing his critical...
Routledge, 2019. — 516 p. The book contains a narrative of the events of the first Indian war of Independence (1857-1859) in modern Haryana and surrounding areas in a chronological order derived from hitherto untouched sources such as original and first-hand reports of the British commanding officers and accompanying magistrates, available in the contemporary newspapers...
Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2006. — 272 p.
Красиво иллюстрированная книга рассказывает о англо-французских и "индейских" войнах на территории Северной Америки в XVII в.
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"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...
Routledge, 2021. — 174 p. The Scramble for Italy offers fresh insights on the set of conflicts known as the Italian Wars of 1494-1559. The aim of this book is to explore the trends of continuity and change that characterized the sixteenth century in order to demonstrate the significance of the Italian Wars as an especially intense period of warfare that drove forward several...
Brill, 2017. — 304 p. — (History of Warfare 114). In Warriors for a Living, Idan Sherer examines the experience of the Spanish infantry during the formative period of the Italian Wars. Decades of clashes between Spain and France transformed Italy into a crucible of military tactics and technology and brought about the emergence of the Spanish infantry tercios as Europe’s finest...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 421 p. The Wars of German Unification is the definitive account of the three of the most decisive conflicts in the history of modern Europe. In this new edition, Dennis Showalter offers a thoroughly updated look at the wars and their context that will be invaluable for those interested in the military, social and political history of the period....
Greenwood, 2007. — 320 p. Two distinguished historians tell the story of the early modern soldier of Europe, a figure often misunderstood, in the period spanning from 1494 to 1789. He is the freebooting Landsknecht of the sixteenth century, swaggering in dilapidated finery through the ruins he and his kind created. He is the mercenary of the Thirty Years War in the seventeenth...
Greenwood, 2007. — 320 p. Two distinguished historians tell the story of the early modern soldier of Europe, a figure often misunderstood, in the period spanning from 1494 to 1789. He is the freebooting Landsknecht of the sixteenth century, swaggering in dilapidated finery through the ruins he and his kind created. He is the mercenary of the Thirty Years War in the seventeenth...
Frontline Books, 2012. — 372 p. Frederick the Great is one of history’s most controversial leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia’s place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war that was to endure until 1916. However, much myth surrounds this enigmatic...
Pen and Sword Books, 2012. — 372 p. Frederick the Great is one of history’s most controversial leaders. Famed for his military successes and domestic reforms, his campaigns were a watershed in the history of Europe, securing Prussia’s place as a continental power and inaugurating a new pattern of total war that was to endure until 1916. However, much myth surrounds this...
Amber Books, 2013. — 498 p. — (Encyclopedia of Warfare). Although the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815, the world entered a new era of conflict as the newly-industrialised European powers sought to contain the expansion of their neighbours on battlefields that spanned the globe, while the United States laid the groundwork for its future superpower status. The Wars of Empire and...
Editorial: Almena, 2013. — 117 p. En la cruel Guerra de los Ochenta Años hubo bastantes mieles y algunas hieles para los legendarios Tercios de Flandes. A casi todos nos gusta leer, admirar y examinar las victorias de nuestros antepasados o héroes, pero no tantos se detienen a hacer lo propio con una derrota, en la cual, además, estuvieron involucradas las más expertas tropas...
Wydawnictwo MADO, 2005. — 271 p. Husaria to jazda, która w powszechnej swiadomosci Polaków kojarzy sie z czyms niezwyczajnym, niepospolitym, czyms co laczy w sobie cechy potegi i piekna. To cos, co zachwyca i wywoluje dume. Aby w pelni zrozumiec fenomen najslynniejszego polskiego rycerstwa Radoslaw Sikora opisuje kluczowe elementy decydujace o olbrzymiej wartosci bojowej...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. — 272 p. It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these. Played out over three distinct conflicts--one fought between the Spanish and the allied United States and Filipino forces;...
Fordham University Press, 1970. — 208 p. The occupation of the Irish port of Kinsale by a Spanish force in 1601 and its surrender to an English army early in 1602 is an event of both European and Irish significance. This work, based mainly on research in the Archivo General de Simancas, has since its first publication in 1970 remained the standard treatment of the invasion and...
Palgrave Pivot, 2022. — 207 p. This book explores and analyzes developments in the military institution, military engagements as well as the larger security environment of (including non-war violence and maritime regions linking to) the Portuguese Empire in India. These developments occurred under the onslaught of the early modern globalization. The research shows that far from...
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 century....
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 technological...
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...
Amberley Publishing, 2014. — 336 p. During the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century, the red tide of British expansion had covered almost the entire Indian subcontinent, stretching to the borders of the Punjab. There the great Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh had developed his military forces to thwart any British advance into his kingdom north of the River Sutlej. Yet...
Harper Collins India, 2021. — 580 p. On 10 May 1857, the most serious threat to British supremacy in India appeared at Meerut, a large military station near Delhi. After months of increasing tension, sepoys of the 3rd Light Cavalry along with the 11th and 20th Native Infantry pointedly refused to use the new cartridges supplied to them. ‘The company Raj is over forever,’...
Helion and Company, 2024. — 227 p. — ( Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 — №119). The 2023 Century of the Soldier Conference was held at the University of Worcester on the banks of the River Severn in the historic city of Worcester. The theme of the conference was ‘Novelty and Change’ and had a range of papers covering a variety of topics. The conference focused on new research...
Michigan State University Press, 2010. — 414 p. "The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes" contains twenty essays concerning not only military and naval operations, but also the political, economic, social, and cultural interactions of individuals and groups during the struggle to control the great freshwater lakes and rivers between the Ohio Valley and the Canadian Shield....
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...
Blackwood, 1906. — 477 p. The Battle of Fontenoy was a major engagement of the War of the Austrian Succession, fought on 11 May 1745, outside Tournai, Belgium. A French army of 50,000 under Marshal Saxe defeated a Pragmatic Army of 52,000, led by the Duke of Cumberland. Along with his son the Dauphin, Louis XV of France was present and thus technically in command, a fact later...
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 since...
Texas University Press, 2003. — 365 p. Earning glory on the fields of battle, Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) was one of the most influential and enigmatic figures of Latin American history. Most North Americans know little of "the Liberator" who freed South America from Spanish rule from 1810 to 1826. Richard W. Slatta and Jane Lucas De Grummond bring forth the entire life and legacy...
Zeughaus Verlag, 2017. — 63 S. Am 16. Juni 1626 starb Christian von Braunschweig in Wolfenbüttel. Katholische Quellen berichten, er sei wie Herodes gestorben. Seine inneren Organe seien von einem Riesenwurm zernagt worden. Sein Leben war mit dem Lauf eines Sterns, eines Kometen verglichen worden. Rastlos handelnd stieg er rasch auf. Und ebenso rasch erlosch sein Leben. Keine...
Osprey Publishing, 2017. — 304 p. General William Howe was the commander-in-chief of the British forces during the early campaigns of the Revolutionary War (1775-1783). He was an enigma, who appeared on multiple occasions to be on the verge of winning the war for Britain, only to repeatedly fail to deliver the final blow. Howe evoked passionate reactions in the people he worked...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 208 p. The first major work on this enigmatic British general for more than 40 years, William Howe and the American War of Independence offers fascinating new insights into his performance during the revolution in America. From 1775 to 1777, Howe commanded the largest expeditionary force Britain had ever amassed, confronting the rebel army under...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 359 p. Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 -1750 argues that armies had a profound impact on the major political events of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain. Beginning with the controversial creation of a permanent army to protect the restored Stuart monarchy, this original and important study examines how armies...
Routledge, 2014. — 272 p. — (Modern Wars In Perspective). Fought in both Caribbean and Pacific and turning on America's superior naval strength, this short but decisive war had momentous consequences internationally. It ended Spain's imperial power, and the US emerged for the first time as an active force in world affairs, acquiring -- amidst much domestic controversy -- an...
Pen and Sword, 2012. — 304 p. The last of the nine Frontier Wars fought between 1799—1877 was in many ways a 'prequel' to the more famous Zulu War of 1879, featuring as it did many of the British regiments and personalities who were to fight at Isandlwana, as well as being the final defeat of the Xhosa people and their reduction to lowly workers for the colonists. This war saw...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 290 p. This is the most thoughtful and well-researched monograph on the topic of the Victoria Cross that I have encountered. It fully explores the reasons for the creation of the award and then traces the shifts in criteria for awarding the medal from its inception to the present day. It analyses the reasons for awarding the VC at various points in...
Leo Cooper, 1991. — 208 p. The origin of the Corps of Royal Engineers, now affectionately known as The Sappers but then as the King's Military Engineers, has been traced as far as 1414, though it was not until 1716 that a permanent officer corps of engineers was established by the Board of Ordnance with the title Corps of Engineers.. Being part of the Regular Army it is hardly...
Leopold Classic Library, 2016. — 205 p. Books about the history of Canada cover a period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago. Before European colonization, Canadian lands were for millennia inhabited by Indigenous peoples. Some of these civilizations had long faded by the time the first Europeans arrived. Since around 1600, French and British expeditions...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 181 p. — (From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 №20) The Shangani or Allan Wilson’s Patrol was a minor incident in the British expansion in Africa. Much smaller in scale than the massacre of Isandlwana, the fate of the Patrol was a black mark on the British South Africa Company’s conquest of Matabeleland. The Patrol was part of the Ndebele War of 1893-94...
Routledge, 2008. — 332 p. This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through extensive analysis of official military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, Michael Snape challenges the widely-held assumption that religion did not play a role in the...
Frontline Books, 2014. — 608 p. In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early in 1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to withdraw. Beyond the Reach of Empire describes how Major General Charles Gordon was dispatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn the Sudan over to self-rule. It goes on to...
Frontline Books, 2016. — 320 p. Wednesday, 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the annals of military history. In the morning, a modern British army was swept aside by the onset of a seemingly unstoppable host at Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote border outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment and a few dozen recuperating hospital...
Harper Collins Publishers, 2009. — 534 p. An epic history of the Battle of Quebec (1759), the death of Wolfe and the beginnings of Britain’s empire in North America. Military history at its best. Perched on top of a tall promontory, surrounded on three sides by the treacherous St Lawrence River, Quebec – in 1759 France's capital city in Canada – forms an almost impregnable natural...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 457 p. In the autumn of 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced and improvised American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the highly trained British and German forces led by General John Burgoyne. Despite inferior organization and training, the Americans exploited access to fresh reinforcements of men and materiel, and...
John Murray Publishers, 2011. — 400 p. The seven-year campaign that saved Europe from Napoleon told by those who were there What made Arthur Duke of Wellington the military genius who was never defeated in battle? In the vivid narrative style that is his trademark, Peter Snow recalls how Wellington evolved from a backward, sensitive schoolboy into the aloof but brilliant...
John Murray Publishers, 2011. — 400 p. The seven-year campaign that saved Europe from Napoleon told by those who were there What made Arthur Duke of Wellington the military genius who was never defeated in battle? In the vivid narrative style that is his trademark, Peter Snow recalls how Wellington evolved from a backward, sensitive schoolboy into the aloof but brilliant...
HM Zrínyi, 2018. —99 p. As a result of the war of liberation fought between 1683 and 1699, Hungary - except for Banat - was liberated from Ottoman rule. Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary Leopold I (Habsburg dynasty, 1657-1705) declared the country an area conquered by arms, and then started to populate it with Germans and Southern Slays. He banned Hungarians from major...
Białystok, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, 2021. — 381 s. Celem niniejszego studium jest zaprezentowanie w maksymalnie szerokim kontekście prawnym, militarnym i politycznym organizacji i funkcjonowania wojskowego wymiaru sprawiedliwości w wojsku koronnym, jak również próba odpowiedzi na pytanie: jak dużą rolę pełniło ono w całościowym systemie utrzymania dyscypliny w...
Endeavour Press, 2014. — 419 p. In the summer of 1704, French conquest seemed inevitable. In this bestselling history, Charles Spencer traces the story of how it was prevented. This is an epic history of how, as Louis the Great’s armies threatened total domination of Europe, poised to extend their frontier and install a French prince on the throne of Spain, two men came...
Warszawa, MON, 1958. — 153 s. W monografii poddano analizie przemiany uzbrojenia indywidualnego wojska polskiego na przełomie średniowiecza i nowożytności z punktu widzenia teorii rewolucji militarnej.
Warszawa, MON, 1961. — 287 s. W monografii poddano analizie przemiany uzbrojenia indywidualnego wojska polskiego na przełomie średniowiecza i nowożytności z punktu widzenia teorii rewolucji militarnej.
Manchester University Press, 1992. — 375 p. This volume, part of a nine-volume series on the history of the British Army which aims to enhance the military aspect of the work with social, economic and political factors, is specifically concerned with the late Victorian period and addresses topics such as the Cardwell reforms, rank and file and training. Spiers is one of the...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 208 p. Engines for empire examines the use of the railway by the British army from the 1830s to 1914, a period of domestic political strife and unprecedented imperial expansion. The book uses a wide array of sources and images to demonstrate how the Victorian army embraced this new technology, how it monitored foreign wars, and how it came...
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 nineteenth...
Manchester University Press, 2005. — 224 p. This book re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period, 1874-1902--the zenith of the Victorian imperial expansion--and does so from the perspective of the regimental soldier. The book utilizes an unprecedented number of letters and diaries, written by regimental officers and other ranks, to allow...
Helion Company, 2019. — 218 p. Albrecht von Wallenstein! His very name is synonymous with the Thirty Years War. From a poor nobleman he rose to become the Duke of Friedland and Mecklenburg. Many see his assassination at Eger in 1634 as the end of the “interesting” period of the war, since he was the last of the war’s titans to be killed. However, his army continued to serve the...
Helion Company, 2019. — 184 p. Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. Альбрехт фон Валленштейн! Его имя является синонимом Тридцатилетней войны. Из бедного дворянина он вырос до герцога Фридландского и Мекленбургского. Многие считают его убийство в Эгере в 1634 году концом «интересного» периода войны, поскольку он был последним из титанов войны, убитых. Однако его армия продолжала...
Helion Company, 2018. — 168 p. The Battle of the White Mountain and the Bohemian Revolt, 1618-1622 looks not only at the battle of the White Mountain (1620), but also the campaigns and events leading up to the battle, such as the Bohemian Army’s march on Vienna, the sieges of Pilsen and Bautzen and the battle of Zablat. These events are often described using the words of the...
Helion Company, 2017. — 199 p. 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 an independent army after the Peace of Prague. Among the generals of the Bavarian Army were Count Johan von Tilly and...
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 an independent army after the Peace of Prague. Among the generals of the Bavarian...
Helion Company, 2019. — 216 p. Nothing sums up the tragedy of the English Civil War more than the friendship between Sir William Waller and his opponent Sir Ralph Hopton as “this war without an enemy.”However, Waller was also a general respected by both sides during the war, the Royalist Colonel Walter Slingsby described him as “the fox” and the “best shifter and chooser of...
Helion Company, 2016. — 299 p. True, the concept of Britain dates back to Roman times, but it was James I that founded Britain in the modern sense. With his accession to the throne in 1603 for the first time Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland were united - with James bestowing on himself the title of 'King of Great Britain'. Before this time, Scots and Irishmen may have...
Oświęcim: Napoleon V, 2018. — 302 s. Autor książki zaprasza w pasjonujący świat życia XVII-wiecznych żołnierzy. Obraz życia ówczesnego żołnierza jawi się jako niezwykle bogaty i różnorodny. Obok splendorów i wspaniałego wyglądu czy fantazji bohaterów staropolskiego oręża widnieją nędzne losy wojskowej zbiorowości, prowadzące do ekstremalnych sytuacji, np. kanibalizmu,...
Oświęcim: Napoleon V, 2018. — 302 s. Autor książki zaprasza w pasjonujący świat życia XVII-wiecznych żołnierzy. Obraz życia ówczesnego żołnierza jawi się jako niezwykle bogaty i różnorodny. Obok splendorów i wspaniałego wyglądu czy fantazji bohaterów staropolskiego oręża widnieją nędzne losy wojskowej zbiorowości, prowadzące do ekstremalnych sytuacji, np. kanibalizmu,...
Jelenia Góra, Kolegium Karkonoskie Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa, 2009. — 397 s. — ISBN 978-83-926801-6-1. Historia Sił Powietrznych zaczyna się z końcem I wojny światowej. W 1918 roku funkcjonowało kilka polskich eskadr stworzonych w innych państwach. W Rosji istniała eskadra przy oddziałach generała Józefa Dowbor-Muśnickiego, rozformowana w maju 1918 roku. We Francji pięć...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 2018 р. — 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 228 p. This book uses the transnational story of a single regiment to examine how ordinary soldiers, military women, and officers negotiated their lives within the chaos and uncertainty of the seventeenth century. Raised in Saxony by Wolf von Mansfeld in spring 1625 in the service of the King of Spain, the Mansfeld Regiment fought for one and...
Warhammer Historical Wargames Ltd., 2006. — 143 p. Несмотря на свое несколько игрушечное название, эта книга на удивление получилась невероятно серьезной, исторически точной, невероятно детальной, богато иллюстрированной и очень легко читаемой. Гражданские Войны (1642-1651) в Англии и Шотландии описываются здесь не столько с точки зрения хронологии сражений и осад, сколько...
Praeger, 2010. — 244 p. A Military History of South Africa: From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid represents the first comprehensive military history of South Africa from the beginning of European colonization in the Cape during the 1650s to the current post-apartheid republic. With particular emphasis on the last 200 years, this balanced analysis stresses the...
Praeger, 2003. — 244 p. War in the 18th century war was a complex operation, including popular as well as conventional conflict, between Europeans and with non-Europeans. These conflicts influenced European intellectuals and contributed to the complexity of Enlightenment thought. While Enlightenment writers regarded war as the greatest evil confronting mankind, they had little...
Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2012. — 255 p. What motivated a small multiracial force of Cape-born soldiers - whites, coloureds and Malays - to put up such stiff resistance at the Battle of Blaauwberg in 1806, in spite of odds so overwhelming that even some long-serving professional soldiers broke rank and ran? This was the intriguing question that launched author Willem...
Tattered Flag, 2014. — 352 p. This is the first book in the English language to offer an analysis of a conflict that, in so many ways, raised the curtain on the Great War. In September 1911, Italy declared war on the once mighty, transcontinental Ottoman Empire – but it was an Empire in decline. The ambitious Italy decided to add to her growing African empire by attacking...
John Donald, 2003. — 337 p. In 1644 James Grahame, Marquis of Montrose, stormed his way into legend with a series of astonishing victories over the Covenanters. At his side stalked a shadowy but terrible ally - Alasdair MacColla, who had a far more ancient agenda of his own. MacColla's aim was nothing less than the effective destruction of the power of Clan Campbell and its...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 432 p. Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century. He trained many future commanders of the Victorian army, saw action in Spain and British India, and rode with the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava. But tasked with disciplining the Turkish...
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 conflicts...
I.B. Tauris, 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 conflicts on...
The History Press, 2011. — 255 p. In the mid-nineteenth century, the British and Russian Empires played the 'Great Game,' a rivalry for supremacy in Central Asia. To secure a 'buffer zone' in Afghanistan, between India and Russian territory, Britain launched the First Anglo-Afghan War in 1838. Initial success, including the imposition of a puppet regime supported by too few...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. — 408 p. A re-evaluation of a controversial Canadian general that overturns much of what is known about him. Introduction. Boer War Hero: Turner to 1914. “An awful war”: Turner as Brigade Commander. “We are in desolate places”: Battle of St Eloi Craters. “Won by my infantry”: Turner’s Somme Campaign. Chaos in England: Unwise Management. “A...
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...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. — 208 p. Once celebrated on par with the Fourth of July, January 8th―the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans―is no longer a day of reverence for most Americans. Although the United States’ stunning 1815 defeat of the British army south of New Orleans gave rise to the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the Democratic Party, and the legend of...
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...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 224 p. Thanks to newly discovered letters and documents, A Handful of Heroes updates the history of the defense of Rorke’s Drift, which will forever be one of the most celebrated British feats of arms. Remarkably, after such prolonged historical scrutiny, the author’s research proves that there is yet more to discover about this famous incident...
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...
Routledge, 2006. — 200 p. This is a fascinating new insight into the British army and its evolution through both large and small scale conflicts. To prepare for future wars, armies derive lessons from past wars. However, some armies are defeated because they learnt the wrong lessons, fighting new conflicts in ways appropriate to the last. For the British Army in the twentieth...
Routledge, 1988. — 226 p. Discussing the key issues of modern warfare, Hew Strachan’s work examines the theory and practice of land warfare in Europe since 1700. Looking at warfare in the context of social and political change, Dr. Strachan interprets his subject matter as widely as possible, and European Armies and the Conduct of War considers the roles of air power and the...
Routledge, 2010. — 408 p. Islamic Gunpowder Empires provides readers with a history of Islamic civilization in the early modern world through a comparative examination of Islam's three greatest empires: the Ottomans (centered in what is now Turkey), the Safavids (in modern Iran), and the Mughals (ruling the Indian subcontinent). Author Douglas Streusand explains the origins of...
Casemate, 2021. — 202 p. The first two decades after the end of the Cold War were characterized by governments' desires to reduce the sizes of their armed forces, not least in order to save money. Hand in hand with this general reduction went an intellectual and doctrinal re-orientation of the armies from conventional warfare to counterinsurgency operations. These trends...
University Press of Kentucky, 2010. — 298 p. After graduating from West Point in 1892, Charles Pelot Summerall (1867--1955) launched a distinguished military career, fighting Filipino insurgents in 1899 and Boxers in China in 1900. His remarkable service included brigade, division, and corps commands in World War I; duty as chief of staff of the U.S. Army from 1926 to 1930; and...
Helion and Company. 2022 — 171 p. On 2 September 1898, the Anglo-Egyptian army under General Kitchener crushed the Mahdist Sudanese army of the Khalifa Abdallahi at the battle of Omdurman. Depictions of the battle, in books and films, have too often depicted it as the hapless slaughter of the Mahdists by a modern, well-equipped professional army. This book seeks to show,...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 256 p. The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur explores how a new kind of international military figure emerged from, and exploited, the seventeenth century's momentous political, military, commercial, and scientific changes. In the era of the Thirty Years' War, these figures traveled rapidly and frequently across Europe using private wealth,...
University Press of Kentucky, 1980. — 257 p. Early in 1733 Augustus II, elector of Saxony and king of Poland, died in Warsaw from complications of a gangrenous foot. The elective throne of Poland thus fell vacant, and the states of Europe began cautious maneuvers designed to secure for each some national advantage in the choice of a successor. Before the year was out, diplomacy...
Helion Company, 2021. — 337 p. In 1655 Oliver Cromwell, England’s Lord Protector, sent a fleet to attack and seize Spanish possessions in South America. The English were flexing their muscles on the international stage and for political, religious and commercial reasons chose to attack a weakened Spain in the West Indies believing it a soft target. In late 1654 possibly the...
Helion Company, 2021. — 322 p. In 1655 Oliver Cromwell, England’s Lord Protector, sent a fleet to attack and seize Spanish possessions in South America. After initial failure on Hispaniola the English occupied Jamaica and in so doing started a five year war with Spain in the West Indies, but one that was also to spread to Europe. This is the second of a two book series that...
Helion and Company, 2023. — 352 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 - 103). Throughout the English Civil War numerous militia and auxiliary cavalry formations were raised at the behest of Parliament in and around the City of London, which have been collectively called the City Horse. Using an extensive array of primary sources this book describes in detail the raising,...
Dundurn Press, 2012. — 224 p. This book provides a fresh new view of the battles of the war and goes behind the scenes to explore wartime trading activity, particularly American dealings with Napoleon and cross-border commerce, as well as the activities of John Jacob Astor, America’s richest man and war financier, and his fur-trading partners in Montreal. There was a wealth of...
Zeughausverlag, 2022. — 151 p. — (Heere & Waffen - 44) Die sogenannten „Galloglas“ prägten die irische Militärgeschichte jahrhundertelang – von ihrem Auftauchen im 13. Jahrhundert bis zu den Kriegen der Tudorzeit im ausgehenden 16. Jahrhundert. War die Kriegführung irischer Armeen von blitzartigen Überfällen mit ebenso schnellem Rückzug geprägt, die Galloglas fochten es bis zum...
Warszawa: Bellona, 2004. — 154 s. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Bitwa pod Kłuszynem miała miejsce 4 lipca 1610 roku podczas wojny polsko-rosyjskiej 1609–1618. Bitwa została stoczona między wojskami polskimi pod dowództwem hetmana polnego koronnego Stanisława Żółkiewskiego, a armią moskiewską pod dowództwem kniazia Dymitra Szujskiego oraz szwedzkimi posiłkami dowodzonymi przez Jakuba...
Bellona, 2009. — 212 p. Bitwa pod Racławicami – zbrojne starcie wojsk polskich, pod dowództwem naczelnika Tadeusza Kościuszki z wojskami rosyjskimi, pod dowództwem generała majora Aleksandra Tormasowa. Bitwa miała miejsce 4 kwietnia 1794, w czasie insurekcji kościuszkowskiej, pod wsią Racławice, znajdującą się obecnie w powiecie miechowskim, w województwie małopolskim. W wyniku...
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.
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 394 p. The period 1350-1750 saw major developments in European warfare, which not only had a huge impact on the way wars were fought, but also are critical to long-standing controversies about state development, the global ascendancy of the West, and the nature of 'military revolutions' past and present. However, the military history of this...
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 and...
Collana, 2014. — 104 p. La pace frettolosamente firmata il 21 luglio 1718 nel castello di Passarowitz dai plenipotenziari austriaci e turchi senza nemmeno consultare i veneziani, conclude l’ultima guerra tra la Dominante e la Porta e si pone come spartiacque tra due momenti della storia politicomilitare della Serenissima. Passarowitz chiude quello che il segretario...
Nadir Media, 2022. — 294 p. Social and operational history of the two Italian regiments who fought in the War of the Seven Years: the Reggimento Clerici, a regular unit of the Austrian line infantry, recruited in Lombardy and Northern Italy, and the Toscanische Infanterie Regiment, an auxiliary force supplied by Francesco Stefano di Lorena, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and recruited...
Casemate Publishers, 2017. — 288 p. The hitherto forgotten story of the development of the regimental band, mainly drummers and buglers. A rare piece of social history. The Instruments of Battle examines in detail the development and role of the British Army’s fighting drummers and buglers, from the time of the foundation of the army up to the present day. While their principal...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2014. — 54 p. In June of 1815 Napoleon led French forces on an offensive campaign into Belgium against the Allied Anglo-Dutch and Prussian armies under Wellington and Blucher. During this campaign Napoleon and several of his marshals made serious errors that led to missed opportunities for victory and ultimately to defeat at Waterloo. Less than 50...
Wydawnictwo i Agencja Informacyjna WAW, 2010. — 280 s. Wyśmienita praca dr. Łukasza Tekieli traktująca o górnołyżyckim teatrze działań podczas wojny trzydziestoletniej, uzupełniająca dotychczasową lukę w literaturze tematu. Fragment recenzji wydawniczej prof. dr. hab. Krystyna Matwijowskiego: - Przy ujęciu podjętej problematyki i konstruowaniu pracy Autor nawiązał do...
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...
De Gruyter Mouton, 1984. — 254 p. The Development of the Nien. The Nien Organization and Leadership. Relations of the Nien with Other Rebels. A History of the Nien Movement and Its Suppression. The Weapons of the Nien Army and Their Guerrilla Tactics. Causes of the Prolonged War against the Nien Army. Conclusion: The Effect of the Nien Rebellion on the Fate of the Manchu Dynasty.
Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. — 285 p. — (Cultures of Christian–Islamic Wars in Europe (1450–1800). Imagining the 1456 Siege of Belgrade in Capystranus. The Memory of the Battle of Krbava (1493) and the Collective Identity of the Croats. Turning Turk as Rational Decision in the Hungarian–Ottoman Frontier Zone. Going Off to the War in Hungary: French Nobles and Crusading...
LRT Editions, 2011. — 93 p. The Battle of Les Avins took place on 20 May 1635, outside the town of Les Avins, near Huy in modern Belgium, then part of the Bishopric of Liège. It was the first major engagement of the 1635 to 1659 Franco-Spanish War, a subsidiary conflict of the Thirty Years' War. France supported the Dutch Republic in its war of independence from Spain, but...
Histoire et Collections, 2013. — 48 p. Fought on 19th May 1643 between the French army of the Duc d'Enghein and the Spanish army under Francisco de Melo, Rocroi is probably one of the most controversial battles in the long period of conflict between the kingdoms of France and Spain. The numerous sources, be they official accounts, memoirs, or correspondence, most often...
Routledge, 2015. — 424 p. The Routledge Handbook of American Military and Diplomatic History provides a comprehensive analysis of the major events, conflicts, and personalities that have defined and shaped the military history of the United States. This volume, The Colonial Period to 1877, illuminates the early period of American history, from the colonial warfare of the 17th...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 226 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №75) In October 1810, the Third French invasion of Portugal under Maréchal Masséna arrived at the Lines of Torres Vedras and his triumphal march into Lisbon came to an abrupt halt. Five months later a thoroughly demoralised and defeated French army retreated from Portugal and never returned. The Lines...
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...
Fonthill Media, 2023. — 528 p. On 22 January 1879, British forces in Zululand suffered a shocking and unimaginable defeat at the hands of the Zulus resulting in over 1300 dead, including more than 800 regular British soldiers. But the Zulu victory came at a cost, and their losses were very heavy too. Yet, surprisingly, scattered in archives, museums, and private collections...
London, S. O. Beeton, 1865. — 432 p. Классическая книга английского историка достаточно подробно описывает основные военные события в Англии и в Голландии в период с 1574 по 1658 годы. Особое внимание автор уделил боевым действиям и осадам в ходе Войны Нидерландов (с Испанией) за Независимость (в 1568-1610), знаменитой осаде Ла-Рошели (в 1628), и конечно, битвам Гражданских Войн в...
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 turn...
University of North Carolina Press, 2006. — 352 p. From 1895 to 1898, Cuban insurgents fought to free their homeland from Spanish rule. Though often overshadowed by the "Splendid Little War" of the Americans in 1898, the longer Spanish-Cuban conflict, according to John Tone, was in fact more remarkable, foreshadowing the wars of decolonization in the twentieth century.Employing...
Casemate, 2011. — 288 p. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 formally ended the American Revolutionary War, but it was the pivotal campaigns and battles of 1781 that decided the final outcome. 1781 was one of those rare years in American history when the future of the nation hung by a thread, and only the fortitude, determination, and sacrifice of its leaders and citizenry ensured its...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 304 p. Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking at how war funding impinged on state development, and how state growth made wars more significant, have tended to downplay the role of military-provisioning...
Pub Libre, 2017. — 52 p. La batalla de Marignano se libró los días 13 y 14 de septiembre de 1515, cerca de la localidad de Melegnano, 16 km al sur de Milán, entre los ejércitos del Reino de Francia y la República de Venecia, por una parte, y los del Ducado de Milán y la Confederación Helvética, por la otra. • Comprender las reclamaciones territoriales de la época, basadas en...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 390 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №28) This book is the first part of a two-volume investigation into the clothing orders of the British late Georgian army, combined and contrasted with an analysis of fashion in the same army- comparing the regulated dress with the 'modes of the army' as revealed by contemporary writing and illustrations....
Częstochowa: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie, 2018. — 571 s. — ISBN: 9788374555906 Rozwój osiemnastowiecznej sztuki fortyfikacyjnej oraz postęp w dziedzinie inżynierii wojskowej i artylerii związany był z działalnością Sebastiana Le Prestre de Vaubana i Marca Rene de Montalemberta. Pierwszy z nich tworzył przede wszystkim w XVII w., ale jego dzieła stanowiły kanon...
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 steadily...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 362 p. This book examines the three dimensions of European warfare, based on the campaigns of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558). Charles's role as commander-in-chief is evaluated by measuring his strategic aims. The process by which bankers took control of the finances of the Habsburg lands becomes clear from an examination of the source of the...
Pen and Sword Books, 2009. — 288 p. This books explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: Was the style of warfare on the Western Front inevitable? Using an...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 116 p. — (From Musket to Maxim 1815-1914 №2) This book records the actions of those Irish soldiers (and others) who were awarded the Victoria Cross in the event known to the British public in 1857 as 'The Indian Mutiny'. Since then, revisionist historians have applied other names to what occurred: a 'war of independence', 'a revolt', or 'a great...
Ballantine Books, 1989. — 448 p. Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War. In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. Tuchman places the Revolution...
Skyhorse Publishing, 2014. — 664 p. Like many historical events, the American Revolution is sometimes overlooked, ignored, or minimized by historians because of common shrouding in romantic myth or interference from stubborn stereotypes. Here historian Phillip Thomas Tucker provides an in-depth look at the events of the Battle of Trenton (1778), weeding out fiction and legend...
Skyhorse, 2022. — 440 p. General William Howe and the mighty British-Hessian Army possessed the golden opportunity to cut-off, trap, and then destroy General George Washington’s Army before he could retreat north and escape from Harlem Heights, New York, when he landed his army at Pell’s Point north of New York City. Howe’s bold amphibious operation north of Washington’s Army...
Stackpole Books, 2021. — 552 p. A figure of legendary, almost mythic proportions, Robert Rogers is widely considered the father of U.S. Army Rangers. He gained his fame during the French and Indian War, fighting in the American and Canadian wilderness for the British colonies and the English Empire against the French and Indians, but a decade later, during the Revolution, he...
ABC-CLIO, 2012. — 1084 p. The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War: A Political, Social, and Military History provides an in-depth examination of not only the military conflict itself, but also the impact of the war on both nations; and how this conflict was the first waged by Americans on foreign soil and served to establish critical U.S. military, political, and foreign...
ABC-CLIO, 2012. — 1034 p. The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812: A Political, Social, and Military History dedicates 872 entries—totaling some 600,000 words—to this important American war. It is the most comprehensive and significant reference work available on the subject. Its entries spotlight the key battles, standout individuals, essential weapons, and social, political, and...
Helion and Company, 2019. — 131 p. — (From Retinue to Regiment 1453-1618 №2) In 1587 the 1,000-strong garrison of tiny Tanaka Castle in Higo Province (modern Kumamoto Prefecture) on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, held out for 100 days against an army ten times their size sent by the great general Toyotomi Hideyoshi. When the castle fell it was burned to the ground, and for...
Frontline Books, 2021. — 192 p. The Lost Samurai reveals the greatest untold story of Japan’s legendary warrior class, which is that for almost a hundred years Japanese samurai were employed as mercenaries in the service of the kings of Siam, Cambodia, Burma, Spain and Portugal, as well as by the directors of the Dutch East India Company. The Japanese samurai were used in...
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999. — 296 p. In British Generals in the War of 1812 Wesley Turner takes a fresh look at five British Generals - Sir George Prevost, Isaac Brock, Roger Sheaffe, Baron Francis de Rottenburg, and Gordon Drummond - who held the highest civil and military command in the Canadas. He considers their formative experiences in the British Army and on...
Dundurn Press, 2011. — 375 p. This book is about British Major General Sir Isaac Brock (1769 - 1812). It tells of his life, his career and legacy, particularly in the Canadas, and of the context within which he lived. One of the most enduring legacies of the War of 1812 on both the United States and Canadian sides was the creation of heroes and heroines. The earliest of those...
Dundurn Press, 2000. — 159 p. Tragedy and farce, bravery and cowardice, intelligence and foolishness, sense and nonsense - all these contradictions and more have characterized the War of 1812. The real significance of the series of skirmishes that collectively made up the war between 1812 and 1814 is the enormous impact they have had on Canadian and American views of themselves...
Helion & Company, 2017. — 252 p. ‘Hey For Old Robin!’ was the cry of the Earl of Essex’s army during the First Civil War as, contrary to modern popular belief, Robert Devereux was well-liked by the men he led. This book fills a gap in the literature of the Civil Wars, taking up the challenge to write a new history of Essex and his Army and examining the often-repeated view that...
Winged Hussar Publishing, 2020. — 1120 p. The year is 1618, and representatives of the powerful Habsburg’s have just been thrown out of the windows of Prague Castle. What happened next took virtually everyone by surprise, as a conflict unparalleled in its intensity, cost and of course in its duration. The Thirty Years War would not end until 1648, and in those three decades of...
Sydney: Big Sky Publishing, 2014. — 159 p. — (Australian Army Campaigns Series). The involvement of an Australian colonial military force in Britain's Egyptian campaigns between 1883 and 1885 was very short, extending for only five months overall, including the pre-deployment phase. Consequently its influence on these campaigns was insignificant. Nevertheless, our involvement...
Nakładem Towarzystwa Naukowego we Lwowie, 1932. — 176 p. Opisuje zmagania Polski i Moskwy o prymat w Europie Wschodniej i o posiadanie ziem pogranicznych nad Dźwiną i Dnieprem. Wiekowe zmagania Polski i Moskwy o prymat w Europie Wschodniej i o posiadanie ziem pogranicznych nad Dźwiną i Dnieprem przechodzą rozmaite stadia i fazy. To jeden, to drugi przeciwnik bierze górę. W...
Routledge, 2015. — 248 p. — (Warfare, Society and Culture). Tzoref-Ashkenazi presents a detailed study of two German regiments which served in India under the British between 1782 and 1791. He asks if the Germans identified with the goals of the British colonial power, how they felt about local people and whether they adopted the colonial ideologies of their British employers.
University of North Texas Press, 2022. — 448 p. Comprehensive in scope, A Military History of Texas provides the first single-volume military history of Texas from pre-Columbian clashes between Native American tribes to the establishment of the United States Space Force as the newest branch of the nation’s military in the twenty-first century. Loyd Uglow ties the various...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 269 p. An examination of how the logistical demands of the British military campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia led to a more intrusive and authoritarian form of imperial control in 1917-1918. This early example of Western military intervention in the Middle East provoked a localized backlash in 1919-1920 whose effects continue to be felt today.
Wiley, 2002. — 480 p. Appearing at a time when there is a new wave of interest in America's Founding Fathers, this well-written and well-researched biography should appeal to traditional political historians and informed lay readers alike. The author, a journalist and biographer, makes no secret of his great admiration for Lafayette, whom he presents as a "gallant knight" and true...
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 light...
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 move...
Frontline Books, 2007. — 230 p. From the Greek professional armies of Alexander, through the Hundred Years War, to today, mercenaries have been ever-present, their role constantly evolving. In this compelling history William Urban takes up their captivating and turbulent story from 1550 to 1789: from the Wars of Religion to the eve of the French Revolution. The 16th century saw...
Frontline Books, 2011. — 263 p. n the early modern world three dominant cultures of war were shaped by a synergy of their internal and external interactions. One was Latin Christian western Europe. Another was Ottoman Islam. The third, no less vital for so often being overlooked, was east–central Europe: Poland/Lithuania, Livonia, Russia, the freebooting Cossacks, a volatile...
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...
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...
Frontline Books, 2013. — 256 p. The eighteenth century marked a watershed in European history. This was a period of significant economic, political and technological upheaval, which led to the American and French revolutions, and was to ultimately pave the way for Europe’s domination of much of the world during the nineteenth century. The wars and political maneuvering of...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. — 248 p. General George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876). The name evokes instant recognition in almost every American and in people around the world. No figure in the history of the American West has more powerfully moved the human imagination.When originally published in 1988, Cavalier in Buckskin met with critical acclaim. Now Robert M. Utley has...
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, besting...
Helion and Company, 2018. — 448 p. In 1799, as part of the Second Coalition against France, an Anglo-Russian army landed in Holland to overthrow the Batavian Republic and to reinstate the Stadtholder William V of Orange. Initially called ‘The Secret Expedition’, although not really a secret for both sides, the description of the invasion reads like a novel. Five major battles...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 290 p. This book is the first monographic attempt to follow the environmental changes that took place in the frontier zone of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. On the one hand, it looks at how the Ottoman–Hungarian wars affected the landscapes of the Carpathian Basin – specifically, the...
Venetia, Paolo Baglioni, 1679. — 752 p. Информативная, достоверная и классическая книга, повествующая об истории Критской (Кандийской) Войны (1645-1669) между Венецианской Республикой (и ее союзниками) и Османской империей. Книга была написана и издана уже через 10 лет после завершения этой длительной войны, и в определенном смысле создана "по горячим следам" после минувших...
Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. — 261 p. From the establishment of NATO in 1949, Western Europe has been under Anglo-American tutelage in military and security matters. Several countries, most notably France and (since reunification) Germany, have experienced this as a hindrance to the pursuit of their particular interests. Since 2008, the European Commission...
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....
London: T. Woodward, 1735. — 406 p. Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince de Martigues, Marquis then Duc de Villars, Vicomte de Melun (1653 – 1734) was a French military commander and an illustrious general of Louis XIV of France. He was one of only six Marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France. Excerpt from Memoirs of the Duke De Villars, Marshal-General of the...
Octopus Books, 1979. — 296 p. European Weapons and Warfare 1618-1648 is a minutely-detailed survey of the armies of this extraordinary period. It discusses the developments in strategy and organization and demonstrates these with full diagrams. The techniques of hand-to-hand combat, together with edged weapons, hand guns, artillery and fortifications, are clearly illustrated...
Napoleon V, 2013. — 345 p. Słownik ten obejmuje ogółem 554 biogramy dowódców i urzędników wojskowych czynnych w siłach zbrojnych Rzeczypospolitej w latach 1648-1699. W aspekcie zawodowym zaprezentowano biogramy 338 oficerów armii konnej zaciągu narodowego (jazda i piechota) oraz 216 oficerów zakwalifikowanych do jednostek zaciągu cudzoziemskiego (jazda piechota dragonia i...
Napoleon V, 2014. — 283 p. Kolejny, drugi juz tom "Slownika biograficznego oficerów polskich drugiej polowy XVII wieku" obejmuje ogólem 452 biogramy dowódców i urzedników wojskowych czynnych w armii koronnej w latach 1648-1696 (1699). Tom II slownika prezentuje zatem 240 biogramów oficerów i urzedników sluzacych w jednostkach zaciagu narodowego (jazda i piechota) oraz 212...
Berlin: Bibliothek des Generalstabes, 1724. — 224 p. Josias II, Count of Waldeck (1636-1669) was the second son of the Count Philip VII of Waldeck-Wildungen and his wife Anna Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein. He was a Major General in the army of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Josias II of Waldeck served in the army of Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg, where he was Colonel of the...
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 for...
Pen and Sword Military, 2006. — 240 p. In this stimulating and original investigation of the decisive battles of the English Civil War, Malcolm Wanklyn reassesses what actually happened on the battlefield and as a result sheds new light on the causes of the eventual defeat of Charles I. Taking each major battle in turn - Edgehill, Newbury I, Cheriton, Marston Moor, Newbury II,...
Helion Company, 2015. — 185 p. This book provides a full listing of the troop and company commanders who served in the New Model Army during the first four years of its existence. A second volume covering the final years of the army s existence is currently very close to completion. It will be published during 2016. This is the first time that the officer corps of the New Model...
Helion Company, 2016. — 288 p. A major gap in the body of work available in print to researchers into the military history of the English Civil War is army lists of the New Model Army. Reconstructing the New Model Army, of which this is the second volume, presents for the first time listings by regiment of the commissioned officers who fought in the New Model Army from the...
Yale University Press, 2010. — 312 p. In this bold history of the men who directed and determined the outcome of the mid-seventeenth-century British wars - from Cromwell, Fairfax, and Essex to many more lesser-known commanders figures - military historian Malcolm Wanklyn offers the first assessment of leadership and the importance of command in the civil wars. Malcolm Wanklyn...
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...
Academica Press, 2013. — 248 p. This monograph is the first new study of a pivotal character in colonial, revolutionary and federal relations with the Amerindian tribes of western Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and the old Northwest. Butler, an Irish born merchant, trader and soldier on the uneasy borderlands of European settlement and tribal territory, made his way to influence...
The History Press, 2009. — 286 p. The definitive history of the campaigns in Canada between the British and French Empires during the Seven Years War. On September 13, 1759, British and French forces fought one of the most decisive battles of history, on the Plains of Abraham outside the Canadian capital of Quebec. The British force decisively routed the French, seized the city...
Class Publishing, 2014. — 184 p. The term 'regiment' was first used in the British army as late as the seventeenth century when small companies were grouped together to form more convenient battle units. Since then while our army as a whole has continued to maintain an unsurpassed record, single regiments have frequently gained fame for their individual achievements in the...
Enslow Publishing, 2017. — 128 p. Many readers may know that the events of the War of 1812 inspired Francis Scott Key to write a poem that later became the national anthem. However, they may not be familiar with the reasons behind the war, its outcomes, and its legacy. Enhanced by excerpts from primary sources and images, this book will discuss the circumstances that led to the...
Leo Cooper, 2004. — 224 p. Several writers have remarked that Marlborough could have never achieved his great military success during the War of the Spanish Succession without the support, industry and ingenuity of his Chief of Staff, Quartermaster General and Chief of Intelligence, General William Cadogan, who became the 1st Earl of Cadogan, and who, in 1722, succeeded...
Excelsior Editions, 2014. — 432 p. Engaging and accessible account of the war that helped forge the American nation. Watson has produced a highly readable and lively account of the key battles, commanders, and events of this ‘forgotten war.’ Watson presents this important war as not only unnecessary and filled with intrigue, but a conflict that ended up shaping both American...
Routledge, 2018. — 689 p. This unprecedented compilation provides the fullest examination anywhere available of the crucial social-political and strategic and policy-level issues of American military history between the Revolution and the Civil War: civil-military relations and the military‘s place in American society and politics; westward expansion and the diverse peacetime...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016. — 395 p. In this two-part biography, Field Marshal Wavell, charts the rise of the 1st Viscount Allenby, from a lowly cavalry lieutenant to the rank of Field Marshal. Allenby was commissioned into the 6th Dragoons in 1880, well-liked by his contemporaries but never considered overly talented. However under fire and in contact with the enemy...
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, and...
Helion and Company, 2018. — 140 p. This book sheds light on an almost unknown military campaign conducted by a French army, 100,000 men strong. The army was referred to by the French king as the ‘Sons of St. Louis’ and was pitted against parts of the regular Spanish army and a numerous militia. The cause of the war was a revolution in Spain in 1820 which brought in a ‘Liberal’...
Helion and Company, 2012. — 120 p. The political phenomenon known as the 'Springtime of the Nations' swept through Europe in 1848, toppling thrones, forcing old autocratic regimes to grant constitutions to the people and bringing street fighting and large scale campaigns to cities and states across the continent. What is not generally known is that a precursor to these events...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 608 p. Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of salutary neglect,” but Stephen Saunders Webb here demonstrates that the American provinces, under the spur of war, became capitalist,...
Potomac Books, 2013. — 248 p. In 1812, less than forty years after breaking from Britain, the United States found itself in another war with its former colonial master. Now, during the two hundredth anniversary of the War of 1812 comes Neither Victor nor Vanquished, William Weber’s reappraisal of this critical but frequently misunderstood conflict. In the first half of the...
Indiana University Press, 1991. — 615 p. Argues that the seventeenth century was the first in which battles were waged, rather than raids and seiges, and discusses war's effectiveness as an extension of state policy. Weigley's The Age of Battles covers the era of European warfare starting with the emergence of Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years War and ending with Napoleon's...
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 strategy...
Frontline Books, 2013. — 352 p. The third of Jac Weller’s trilogy concerns the period before the future Duke of Wellington faced Napoleon’s armies, but during which he earned his spurs as a military commander. It was in India that he gained his experience of strategy and tactics, which he would put to masterly effect against his most formidable opponent in years to come. Jac...
Pen and Sword Books, 2010. — 192 p. From 1859 to 1908 the Rifle Volunteers played an essential role in Britains national defence, yet their history has been sadly neglected. Little information is available on these dedicated, amateur soldiers who were recruited into the ranks of a military organization that flourished across the country. But now, in this invaluable book, Ray...
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.
Basic Books, 2009. — 384 p. In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the Golden Apple,” as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled with guns as the besieging Ottoman host...
Da Capo Press, 2012. — 432 p. Alongside Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan is the least known of the triumvirate of generals most responsible for winning the Civil War. Yet, before Sherman’s famous march through Georgia, it was General Sheridan who introduced scorched-earth warfare to the South, and it was his Cavalry Corps that compelled Robert...
Literary Licensing Press, 2011. — 340 p. French Marshal Maurice comte de Saxe was one of the most famous and infamous men of his time, though he was born without title, and although his name is not broadly recognized today. He served in several armies during his youth, including with Marlborough and Eugene against France, and concluded his career as France's leading general....
Helion & Company, 2019. — 260 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №30) This study details the preparation, planning and execution of the invasion of Portugal in 1810 by the French Armée de Portugal under Marshal Massena, and the defensive measures taken by the British and their Portuguese and Spanish allies. It also covers the practice of all armies involved during this...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 288 p. — (Cambridge Military Histories). Daniel Whittingham presents the first full-length study of one of Britain's most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell (1859–1928). It tells the story of his life, which included service in military intelligence, the South African War, and on the General Staff before and...
Manohar Publishers, 2002. — 212 p. This book explores the role played by the British perceptions on Indian culture and Indian soldiers in the formation of English East India Company's sepoy army in the second half of the 18th century. It examines the influence of British perceptions on the sepoy's place from the barrack room to the battlefield, demonstrating that prejudice was...
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 political...
Helion and Company, 2020. — 133 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №48) This book was written to provide an in-depth study of the Danish and Norwegian armies of the Napoleonic Wars. The goal was to provide a working document which is as accurate as possible, covering the uniforms of these armies, their weapons and their evolution as well as their colours and a look at...
Helion and Company, 2021. — 156 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №61) This book was written to provide an in-depth study of the Danish and Norwegian armies of the Napoleonic Wars. The goal was to provide a working document which is as accurate as possible, covering the uniforms of these armies, their weapons and their evolution as well as their colours and a look at...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 224 p. — (From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815 №95) This book was written to provide an in-depth study of the Danish and Norwegian armies of the Napoleonic Wars. The goal was to provide a working document which is as accurate as possible, covering the uniforms of these armies, their weapons and their evolution as well as their colours and a look at...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 248 p. The Thirty Years' War (1618-48) was Europe's most destructive conflict prior to the two world wars. Two of European history's greatest generals faced each other at Lützen in November 1632, mid-way through this terrible war. Neither achieved his objective. Albrecht von Wallenstein withdrew his battered imperial army at nightfall, unaware...
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...
Oświęcim: Napoleon V, 2013. — 252 s. — ISBN 978-83-788-9016-4. Ta książka to swoisty tryptyk. Pierwsza część poświęcona jest wojnom polsko-szwedzkim w XVI i pierwszej połowie XVII w. Właściwa część opisuje zmagania drugiej wojny północnej z lat 1655-1660, nazywanej w Polsce "potopem". Ostatni dział poświęcony jest wojnom epoki Augusta II i Karola XII początków XVIII w.
Warszawa: Bellona, 2006. — 140 s. Bogato ilustrowany album - informator o przedrozbiorowych dziejach Wojska Polskiego, jego bitwach, uzbrojeniu, wyposazeniu, umundurowaniu itp. Poszczegolne rozdzialy obejmuja czasy Piastow, Jagiellonow, krolow elekcyjnych, okres upadku panstwowosci za Sasow i nieudana probe odbudowy kraju i wojska przez Stanislawa Augusta. Zrozumienie i...
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 their...
Texas 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 experience, no matter their...
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...
Helion and Company, 2024. — 112 p. — Перевод на русский - Крючков Ю.Н. В 1499 году между Швейцарскими государствами и Священной Римской империей велась жестокая война. Это был дорогостоящий конфликт, в ходе которого было разрушено около двухсот деревень и убито более двадцати тысяч солдат, а также бесчисленные тысячи некомбатантов. Швейцарцы создали одну из первых по-настоящему...
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 tells...
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...
Warszawa: Książka i Wiedza, 1976. — 359 p. Monografia polskiej XVII-wiecznej najemnej konnej formacji wojskowej. Lisowczycy dotarli az do Morza Arktycznego, wslawili sie m.in. walkami w Czechach, na Wegrzech, nad Renem, w Rosji. Znaczyli swoj szlak krwia. Pozostawiali wielkie spustoszenie. Nowa edycja zostala wzbogacona o liczne ilustracje i mapy. Autor wprowadzil rowniez...
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...
Warszawa: Bellona, 2013. — 348 s. — (Historyczne Bitwy). The Second French Intervention in Mexico 1861–1867, also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War and the Mexican Adventure, was an invasion of Mexico, launched in late 1861, by the Second French Empire (1852–1870). Initially supported by the United Kingdom and Spain, the French intervention in Mexico was a consequence of...
Bellona, 1998. — 233 p. — (Historyczne Bitwy). Monografia wojny amerykańsko-meksykańskiej 1846-1848 przedstawia wydarzenia kompleksowo: uwarunkowania historyczne, polityczne, przebieg i skutki wojny, z racji specjalizacji autora ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem czynnika militarnego. Książka przedstawia walki o miasto Meksyk i zdobycie stolicy przez wojska inwazyjne generała...
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 town...
Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1983. — 234 s. — ISBN 831106928X Spis treści: Wstęp Oblężenie Kamieńca w 1672 roku Ze spraw polsko-mołdawskich 1672-1673 Po Chocimie 1673-1674 Epilog Chocimia w 1674 roku Konwokacja 1674 roku a wojna polsko-turecka Pośrednictwo tatarskie w wojnie polsko-tureckiej 1674-1675 Bitwa pod Lwowem 1673 roku Żórawno Król Jan III...
Helion and Company, 2018. — 121 p. — (Century of the Soldier, 1618-1721). The book describes the development of the Swedish Army during the Great Northern War, 1700-1721, when Sweden fought against a coalition of Russia, Denmark-Norway and Poland-Saxony. For parts of the war, Prussia and Hanover also joined the enemy coalition. The book describes how the Army was reorganized in...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 248 p. As one of the foremost military commanders of the early seventeenth century Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, played a vital role in defending the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years War. In the space of two years – between 1630 and 1632 – he turned the course of the war, winning a decisive victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld and...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2013. — 162 p. Field Marshal Wood ranks as one of the most eminent soldiers of the Victorian era of the British Empire. He served with distinction in the mud and misery of the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, Wolseley's Ishanti War, the Zulu War and in Egypt and the Sudan. His actions on attacking a gang of robbers intent on murdering a local merchant...
Routledge, 2019. — 386 p. First published in 1908, Sir Evelyn Wood creates a recount in this work covers specific military events and figures involved in the revolt against the British forces and rule in India, during 1857–1859. Many of the numerous correspondents who have assisted me in amplifying the Articles, published in the Times, October 1907, expressed the hope that my...
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, commanders,...
Boydell & Brewer, 2019. — 326 p. Within the large-scale historiography of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century warfare and the early modern military revolution there remain many unanswered questions about the individual soldier and their relationship to the profession of arms. What was it that distinguished a soldier from the rest of society? How was the military life perceived...
Stanford University Press, 1968. — 279 p. The Rif War was an long armed conflict fought from 1911 to 1927 between the colonial power Spain (later joined by France) and the Berber tribes of the Rif mountainous region of Morocco. Led by Abd el-Krim, the Riffians at first inflicted several defeats on the Spanish forces by using guerrilla tactics and captured European weapons....
Leiden: Brill, 2004. — 330 p. — (History of Warfare. Volume 21). 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...
Helion Company, 2016. — 119 p. Reflecting on the Battle of Montgomery, Sir Thomas Myddelton - who had jointly commanded the victorious Parliamentarian Army - later described it as: 'as great a victory as hath been gained in any part of the kingdom'. Fought on 18 September 1644 in mid-Wales, Montgomery was the largest engagement in the Principality during the First English Civil...
Helion and Company, 2022. — 208 p. — (Century of the Soldier 1618-1721 №85) While the First, or 'Great', English Civil War of 1642-6 was largely contested at regional and county level, in often hard-fought and long-lasting local campaigns, historians often still continue to dwellon the well-known major battles, such as Edgehill and Naseby, and the prominent national leaders. To...
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...
Amberley Publishing, 2017. — 420 p. — ISBN: 1445665484. Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC (4 June 1833–25 March 1913) was an Anglo-Irish officer. The number of letters after his name indicates just how glittering was his career. What first made him a household name – he is the original ‘Modern Major-General’ – was campaigning...
The History Press, 2011. — 320 p. In 1882 the British invaded Egypt in an audacious war that gave them control of the country, and the Suez Canal, for more than 70 years. William Wright gives the first full account of that hard-fought and hitherto neglected campaign, which was not nearly as "tidy" as the British commander would later claim. Using unpublished documents and...
The History Press, 2012. — 160 p. The battle took place at Kerreri, north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force of 8,000 British regulars and a mixed force of 17,000 Sudanese and Egyptian soldiers. He arrayed his force in an arc around the village of Egeiga close to the bank of the Nile, where a gunboat flotilla waited in support, facing a wide, flat plain with...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 275 p. At the end of 1758, Britons could proudly boast of the numerous victories which had been achieved against the forces of King Louis XV. Although the Seven Years’ War, or French and Indian War, was far from over, 1758 marked a significant turning point. Uniquely, this book provides an insight into the initial stages of the Seven Years War, and...
University of Utah Press, 2013. — 925 p. War and Nationalism presents thorough up-to-date scholarship on the often misunderstood and neglected Balkan Wars of 1912 to 1913, which contributed to the outbreak of World War I. The essays contain critical inquiries into the diverse and interconnected processes of social, economic, and political exchange that escalated into conflict....
University of Utah Press, 2011. — 625 p. Combining different disciplinary perspectives, War and Diplomacy argues that the key events that portended the beginning of the end of the multiethnic Ottoman Empire were the The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 and the Treaty of Berlin. The essays in this volume analyze how the war and the treaty permanently transformed the political...
The History Press, 2012. — 168 p. The small garrison based at Rorke's Drift in South Africa is forever immortalised in British history as one of the Army's most glorious moments. The garrison was defended by 139 British soldiers with 300 African colonial troops under their command when, on 22 January 1879, they were attacked by a Zulu force of nearly 4,000 warriors. Out...
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...
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...
Allen and Unwin, 1974. — 189 p. The English Civil War of 1642-1646 was one of the most formative periods of British history. This book, originally published in 1974, was one of the first to explore in depth the situation of the common soldier – how he was trained, clothed, equipped , fed and paid; how he amused himself, was disciplined and cared for medically. As well as...
Combined Publishing, 1999. — 377 p. Between August 1642, when the Royal Standard of King Charles I was raised above Castle Hill at Nottingham, and September 1651, when the second Charles barely managed to escape to France from the bloody chaos of Worcester, three separate civil Wars between the Crown and Parliament were contested. This text is a military history dealing with...
Naval Institute Press, 2013. — 255 p. The two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and role of the military duty position of the chief of staff. Many books have studied history's great commanders and the art of command. None have focused exclusively on the chief of staff -- that key staff officer responsible for translating the ideas of the commander into...
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...
Osprey Publishing, 2008. — 97 p. — (Segunda Guerra Mundial 29). — ISBN 9781472856819. En septiembre de 1944, Hitler vio la oportunidad de dar un golpe decisivo a los Aliados. El Tercer Ejército de Patton se encontraba a la vanguardia del avance aliado hacia el este y, a medida que sus fuerzas avanzaban hacia Lorena, daba la impresión que no tardarían mucho en arrollar las...
Pen and Sword, 1990. — 239 p. A you-are-there account of the 19th-century battle against the army of Abdullah al-Taashi that established British dominance in the Sudan. The death of General Gordon in Khartoum at the hand of the Dervishes is one of the most celebrated events in the history of the 19th century. Equally dramatic, but perhaps less well-known, is the extraordinary...
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)...
I.B. Tauris, 1999. — 288 p. Universal conscription has been the main form of military recruitment in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Central Asia and the Middle East it has been ruthlessly imposed on agrarian and undeveloped societies with little regard for individual interest, economic disruption, or intense local resistance. This book provides a fresh approach to the...
Zabrze : Wydawnictwo Inforteditions, 2011. — 533 s. Przedmowa Marcin Gawęda, Sipahiowie lenni. System timariocki Piotr Tafiłowski, Armie osmańska i węgierska w dobie bitwy pod Mohácsem (1526) Bogdan Bruliga, „Ordunki” versus „arkebuzy dymiące”: tradycja i nowoczesność w Księgach o rycerskich rzeczach (Kriegsordnung) księcia Albrechta von Hohenzollerna Karol Łopatecki, Artykuły...
Instytut Badań nad Dziedzictwem Kulturowym Europy, 2012. — 804 p. This book, entitled Disciplina militaris in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth till the second half of the seventeenth century is the result of archive and library research in Lithuania (Vilnius), Ukraine (Lviv), Sweden (Stockholm), Latvia (Riga), Holy See (Vatican City), Russia (St. Petersburg), Belarus (Minsk), and...
Routledge, 2017. — 241 p. This book examines the politics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the crucial period between the Russian tsar Peter the Great’s victory over Sweden at the battle of Poltava and the 1717 Silent Sejm, the Polish-Lithuanian parliament’s session which is traditionally seen as responsible for opening the way to Russian domination of Polish-Lithuanian...
Edipresse, 2015. — 90 p. 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 successful pursuit of...
СПб.: Галея-Принт, 2009. — ISBN: 978-5-8172-0137-6. Рассказ о событиях боевых действий на море во время первой войны за передел колониальных владений — испано-американской 1898 года. Подробно рассмотрены предпосылки начала войны, дана ежедневная хроника боевых действий на море и основных событий — на сухопутном фронте. Значительное внимание уделено основному морскому сражению...
29 с. Организация и униформа датско-норвежской армии в 1700-1720 гг. Краткая хронология. Датская армия. Норвежская армия. Датская пехота. Датская ландмилиция. Датские конные полки. Датские драгуны. Артиллерия. Норвежская пехота. Норвежские драгуны. Норвежская артиллерия. Боевые расписания.
Санкт-Петербург: Санкт-Петербург, 2001. — 39 с. Описанное Вильсоном Лисское морское сражение Австро-Итальянской войны 1866 года представляет большой интерес как первое в истории сражание броненосных флотов. Лисское морское сражение 1866 года, сражение между итальянским и австрийским флотами во время австро-итальянской войны 1866 года, происшедшее 20 июля у о. Лисса (ныне о. Вис...
М.: Эксмо, 2017. — 448 с. — (Россия - держава на трех континентах). — ISBN: 978-5-04-089213-6. Чем «опиумные войны» англичан в Поднебесной были похожи на Крымскую войну? Почему русские без единого выстрела вернулись на потерянный Амур и отчего за Приморье пришлось сражаться не с китайцами, а с Англией? Зачем русские гвардейцы учили маньчжурских солдат и почему китайские...
Автор: Военно-Ученый Комитет Главного Штаба. — СПб.: Второе Отделение Собственной Е.И.В. Канцелярии, 1876. — 114 с.
Язык: Русский (дореформенный)
В книге содержатся сведения о вооруженных силах Румынии, Сербии, Черногории, Египта и Греции второй половины XIX века (состав и численность армиии, учебные заведения и материальная часть, устройство военного управления, дислокация...
Автор: Военно-Ученый Комитет Главного Штаба. — СПб.: Второе Отделение Собственной Е.И.В. Канцелярии, 1876. — 114 с.
Язык: Русский (дореформенный)
В книге содержатся сведения о вооруженных силах Румынии, Сербии, Черногории, Египта и Греции второй половины XIX века (состав и численность армиии, учебные заведения и материальная часть, устройство военного управления, дислокация...
Махачкала: : Культурно-историческое общество «ТАРИХ», 1996. — 264 с. Описание: Целью настоящего исследования автор поставил, опираясь на разносторонний и разнохарактерный фактический материал и труды отечественных и зарубежных авторов, воссоздать историко-политический портрет многолетней, удивительной во всех отношениях, бесстрашной борьбы малочисленных жителей Страны Гор за...
СПб.: Общественная польза, 1875. — 957 с. Свой знаменитый цикл капитальных трудов по всеобщей военной истории, в который вошли 15 книг, охватывающих период с древнейших времен и до современных автору событий, князь Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в 1834—1848 годах в период профессорско-преподавательской работы в Военной академии, где он руководил кафедрой стратегии и затем —...
СПб.: Типография А. Траншеля, 1872. — 301 с.
Свой капитальный труд «Всеобщая военная история» князь Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в 1838-47 годах в период профессорско-преподавательской работы в Императорской военной академии, где он руководил кафедрой стратегии и затем — военной истории. На протяжении двадцати лет со времени учреждения академии не существовало учебного...
СПб.: Типография А. Траншеля, 1873. — 280 с.
Свой капитальный труд «Всеобщая военная история» князь Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в 1838-47 годах в период профессорско-преподавательской работы в Императорской военной академии, где он руководил кафедрой стратегии и затем — военной истории. На протяжении двадцати лет со времени учреждения академии не существовало учебного...
СПб.: Общественная польза, 1874. — 503 с. Свой капитальный труд «Всеобщая военная история» князь Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в 1838-47 годах в период профессорско-преподавательской работы в Императорской военной академии, где он руководил кафедрой стратегии и затем — военной истории. На протяжении двадцати лет со времени учреждения академии не существовало учебного пособия на...
Монография. — В 3-х частях. — М.: Академический проект, 2019. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2379-6. Части первая и вторая. Войны 1-й половины XVII века в Западной Европе. Тридцатилетняя война (1618–1648 гг.). Войны 2-й половины XVII и 1-й половины XVIII века в Западной Европе (1630–1740 гг.). — М.: Академический проект, 2019. — 494 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2380-2. Свой капитальный труд...
Монография. — В 3-х частях. — М.: Академический проект, 2019. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2379-6. Часть третья. Войны 2-й половины XVIII века в Западной Европе (1740–1791 гг.). Войны Фридриха Великого. — М.: Академический проект, 2019. — 471 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2381-9. Свой капитальный труд "Всеобщая военная история" Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в период...
М.: АСТ, 2002. — 621 с. — (Военно-историческая библиотека). Книга известного английского историка Рональда Фредерика Делдерфилда «Закат Империи» посвящена завершающему этапу наполеоновских войн. Описанные события относятся к периоду с апреля 1813 года, когда разгромленная «Великая армия» добралась до Германии, по 4 мая 1814 года — дня, когда Наполеон впервые оказался в изгнании....
М.: АСТ, 2002. — 621 с. — (Военно-историческая библиотека). — ISBN: 5-17-014248-Х Книга известного английского историка Рональда Фредерика Делдерфилда «Закат Империи» посвящена завершающему этапу наполеоновских войн. Описанные события относятся к периоду с апреля 1813 года, когда разгромленная «Великая армия» добралась до Германии, по 4 мая 1814 года — дня, когда Наполеон...
Документарна литература, цетиње, обод, 1975, 368 стр амерички новинар джон рид обилази србију у вријеме епидемије тифуса 1915 и затишја на фронту, а великог умирања од болести. обилази београд, шабац, ваљево, планину гучево - мјесто велике битке од прије пар мјесеци са хиљадама несахрањених лешева по планини...разговара са официрима и сељацима
М.: Вече, 2011. — 339 с. Кто объединит Германию - дряхлеющая Австро-Венгерская империя или молодое и агрессивное Прусское королевство? В 1866 году ответ на этот вопрос дали пушки и винтовки. Пруссаки вместе с итальянцами наголову разбили австрияков и определили всю последующую историю Европы. Представителем России при Прусской ставке был Михаил Иванович Драгомиров - видный...
М.: Вече, 2011. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-5203-1. Кто объединит Германию - дряхлеющая Австро-Венгерская империя или молодое и агрессивное Прусское королевство? В 1866 году ответ на этот вопрос дали пушки и винтовки. Пруссаки вместе с итальянцами наголову разбили австрияков и определили всю последующую историю Европы. Представителем России при Прусской ставке был Михаил...
М.: Вече, 2011. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-5203-1. Кто объединит Германию - дряхлеющая Австро-Венгерская империя или молодое и агрессивное Прусское королевство? В 1866 году ответ на этот вопрос дали пушки и винтовки. Пруссаки вместе с итальянцами наголову разбили австрияков и определили всю последующую историю Европы. Представителем России при Прусской ставке был Михаил...
М.: Вече, 2011. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-5203-1. Кто объединит Германию - дряхлеющая Австро-Венгерская империя или молодое и агрессивное Прусское королевство? В 1866 году ответ на этот вопрос дали пушки и винтовки. Пруссаки вместе с итальянцами наголову разбили австрияков и определили всю последующую историю Европы. Представителем России при Прусской ставке был Михаил...
М.: Вече, 2011. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9533-5203-1. Кто объединит Германию - дряхлеющая Австро-Венгерская империя или молодое и агрессивное Прусское королевство? В 1866 году ответ на этот вопрос дали пушки и винтовки. Пруссаки вместе с итальянцами наголову разбили австрияков и определили всю последующую историю Европы. Представителем России при Прусской ставке был Михаил...
СПб.: Типография Департамента уделов, 1867 — 242 с. Анализ войны между Пруссией и Австрией за гегемонию в германском мире от знаменитого теоретика Драгомирова, прикомандированного во время этих событий к прусскому штабу. Драгомиров прослеживает истоки конфронтации двух держав, подготовку к войне, как политически, так и материально; показана дипломатическая борьба и, разумеется,...
СПб.: Типографія Н. Тиблена и комп., 1861. — 93 с. Работа посвящена разбору крупнейшего сражения австро-итало-французской войны 1859 г., состоявшегося 24 июня 1859 г. между объединёнными войсками Франции, Пьемонта и Сардинии против австрийской армии. Полем боя стали окрестности ломбардской деревушки Сольферино. Состав сил противников. Французская армия. Сардинская армия....
СПб.: Типографія Н. Тиблена и комп., 1861. — 93 с. Работа посвящена разбору крупнейшего сражения австро-итало-французской войны 1859 г., состоявшегося 24 июня 1859 г. между объединёнными войсками Франции, Пьемонта и Сардинии против австрийской армии. Полем боя стали окрестности ломбардской деревушки Сольферино. Состав сил противников. Французская армия. Сардинская армия....
СПб.: Экономическая типолитография, 1899. – 260 с. Отчёт командированного по высочайшему повелению к испанским войскам на остров Куба. Раритетная книга, являющаяся своего рода источником по испано-американской войне 1898 года, написанная свидетелем тех событий. Краткий статистический очерк острова Куба Краткий исторический очерк восстания на о. Куба и увеличения вооруженных сил...
СПб.: Издание Военно-Учетного Комитета Генерального Штаба, 1899. – 260 с. Отчёт командированного по высочайшему повелению к испанским войскам на остров Куба Генерального Штаба полковника Жилинского. Раритетная книга, являющаяся своего рода источником по испано-американской войне 1898 года, написанная свидетелем тех событий. Краткий статистический очерк острова Куба. Краткий...
М.: Эксмо, 2006. — 264 с. — ISBN 5-699-18464-3 В данной книге описываются тактические приемы, вооружения, методы подготовки солдат в Европе и Северной Америке 1500 - 1763 гг. Это эпоха, когда огнестрельное оружие стало окончательно доминировать на полях сражений. Каждая из глав посвященна определенным родам войск и их применению на полях сражений: пехоте, кавалерии, артиллерии,...
СПб.: Изд. В. Березовского, тип. Тренке и Фюсно, 1889. — 262 с. Данная книга представляет собой перевод с французского IX тома Bibliotheque internationale d'histoire militaire, "Campagnes de 1805", выполненный и комментированный русским военным историком и теоретиком генералом В.Н. Клембовским. Причины и предлоги войны. Силы и средства противников. Проекты и планы войны. План и...
София: Издава военното книгоиздателство на Гужгуловъ и Котевъ, 1908. — 280 с. — ISBN: 5-17-016752-0, 5-7921-0624-Х. Старая болгарская книга о балканских войнах, в которых участвовали Болгария, Турция, Греция, Сербия, Черногория, Румыния. Была адресована солдатам, участвовавших в них.
М.: Цитадель, 2000. — 158 с. — (Неизвестные войны XIX века). — ISBN 5-8172-0045-7.
Первая книга серии "Неизвестные войны XIX века" посвящена испано-американской войне, проходившей в 1898 году. Впервые дано подробное описание боевых действий на суше и на море. И впервые публикуются фотографии, которые хранятся в Российском государственном архиве военно-морского флота.
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Пятый Рим, 2018. — 197 с. В 1864–1870 гг. между Парагваем и коалицией, состоящей из Уругвая, Бразилии и Аргентины разразилась война, которой суждено было стать самым кровавым конфликтом, произошедшим на территории Южной Америки. Для Парагвая поражение в войне обернулось страшными невосполнимыми потерями. Страна понесла такой урон, что была отброшена в развитии на десятки лет назад...
Пятый Рим, 2018. — 197 с. В 1864–1870 гг. между Парагваем и коалицией, состоящей из Уругвая, Бразилии и Аргентины разразилась война, которой суждено было стать самым кровавым конфликтом, произошедшим на территории Южной Америки. Для Парагвая поражение в войне обернулось страшными невосполнимыми потерями. Страна понесла такой урон, что была отброшена в развитии на десятки лет назад...
М.: Пятый Рим, 2018. — 197 с. В 1864–1870 гг. между Парагваем и коалицией, состоящей из Уругвая, Бразилии и Аргентины разразилась война, которой суждено было стать самым кровавым конфликтом, произошедшим на территории Южной Америки. Для Парагвая поражение в войне обернулось страшными невосполнимыми потерями. Страна понесла такой урон, что была отброшена в развитии на десятки лет...
М.: Русские Витязи, 2016. — 248 с. — (Ратное дело). — ISBN: 978-5-9907714-9-9. В книге дается характеристика вооруженных сил одного из главных геополитических противников России на Кавказе - Персии (Ирана) в конце XVIII - первой трети XIX в. Опираясь на архивные и опубликованные источники, авторы рассматривают как традиционные военные институты Ирана (шахская гвардия, конница...
М.: Госвоениздат, 1937. — 139 с. В книге рассказано о территории, экономике, социально-экономическом положении межвоенной Польши. Особое место занимает рассмотрение польских вооруженных сил, их боеготовности, захватнических планов правящих классов польского государства.
Тифлис: Отделение Генерального штаба Окружного штаба Кавказского военного округа, 1890. — [2], IV, 261 с. Настоящiй очеркъ содержитъ слѣдующiя свѣдѣнiя: Организацiя вооруженныхъ силъ Турецкой имперiи. Организацiя постоянной армiи по родамъ оружiя, нынѣ существуюшая и предполагаемая къ осуществленiю. Таблицы штатной численности мирнаго и военнаго времени, а также наличной къ...
СПб.: Тип. Департамента уделов, 1873. — 384 с. 22 публичные лекции охватывают период с 19 июля 1870 года по 10 мая 1871-го, то есть весь ход действий франко-прусской войны. В лекциях, помимо событий конфликта, рассмотрены планы и замыслы сторон, их сильные и слабые стороны, дан сравнительный анализ готовности к войне. Леер попытался вывести некоторые выводы, в частности:...
Минск: Белорусская наука, 2021. — 279 c. — ISBN 978-985-08-2776-0. В написанной на основе зарубежных источников монографии рассматриваются межгосударственные отношения в Западной Европе в конце XV в. на материале Первой Итальянской войны (1494–1495 гг.). Особое внимание уделяется дипломатической подготовке и ходу военных действий, соперничеству ведущих европейских государств на...
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1838. — 368 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1838. — 191 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1839. — 217 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1839. — 440 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1839. — 244 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1839. — 492 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1840. — 464 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1840. — 464 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1840. — 304 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1840. — 304 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1838. — 468 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
Санкт-Петербург: Типография И. Глазунова и Ко, 1838. — 468 с. Многотомное издание «Военная библиотека» выходило в свет на протяжении 1838–1840 гг. в Санкт-Петербурге, в типографии И. Глазунова, является продолжением одноименного собрания 1837 г. Первые книги были опубликованы под руководством генерала барона Н. В. Медема, профессора Императорской военной академии, и О. И....
СПб.: Бриз-СПб, 2003. — 40 с. В 1998 году исполнилось 100 лет испано-американской войне, военный аспект боевых действий которой в отечественной историографии практически не поднимается. Немногих советских историков, занимавшихся изучением событий на Филиппинах 1898 года, например, Л.А. Губера, Л.Ю. Слезкина, более интересовали дипломатические аспекты кампании. Описание боевых...
СПб.: Бриз-СПб, 2003. — 40 с. В 1998 году исполнилось 100 лет испано-американской войне, военный аспект боевых действий которой в отечественной историографии практически не поднимается. Немногих советских историков, занимавшихся изучением событий на Филиппинах 1898 года, например, Л.А. Губера, Л.Ю. Слезкина, более интересовали дипломатические аспекты кампании. Описание боевых...
СПб.: Бриз-СПб, 2007. — 60 с. В 1998 году исполнилось 100 лет испано-американской войне, военный аспект боевых действий которой в отечественной историографии практически не поднимается. Немногих советских историков, занимавшихся изучением событий на Филиппинах 1898 года, например, Л.А. Губера, Л.Ю. Слезкина, более интересовали дипломатические аспекты кампании. Описание боевых...
СПб.: Бриз-СПб, 2007. — 60 с. В 1998 году исполнилось 100 лет испано-американской войне, военный аспект боевых действий которой в отечественной историографии практически не поднимается. Немногих советских историков, занимавшихся изучением событий на Филиппинах 1898 года, например, Л.А. Губера, Л.Ю. Слезкина, более интересовали дипломатические аспекты кампании. Описание боевых...
СПб.: Бриз-СПб, 2003. — 40 с.
В 1998 году исполнилось 100 лет испано-американской войне, военный аспект боевых действий которой в отечественной историографии практически не поднимается.
Немногих советских историков, занимавшихся изучением событий на Филиппинах 1898 года, например, Л.А. Губера, Л.Ю. Слезкина, более интересовали дипломатические аспекты кампании. Описание боевых...
СПб.: Бриз-СПб, 2003. — 40 с.
В 1998 году исполнилось 100 лет испано-американской войне, военный аспект боевых действий которой в отечественной историографии практически не поднимается.
Немногих советских историков, занимавшихся изучением событий на Филиппинах 1898 года, например, Л.А. Губера, Л.Ю. Слезкина, более интересовали дипломатические аспекты кампании. Описание боевых...
М.: Вече, 2024. Г. фон Мольтке – прусский генерал-фельдмаршал, начальник германского Большого Генерального штаба, один из создателей Германской империи, крупный военный теоретик. Им были разработаны планы войны против Дании (1864), Австрии (1866) и Франции (1870—1871). Данная работа представляет собой сжатый стратегический очерк последней из упомянутых войн, в ходе которой...
М.: Вече, 2024. Г. фон Мольтке – прусский генерал-фельдмаршал, начальник германского Большого Генерального штаба, один из создателей Германской империи, крупный военный теоретик. Им были разработаны планы войны против Дании (1864), Австрии (1866) и Франции (1870—1871). Данная работа представляет собой сжатый стратегический очерк последней из упомянутых войн, в ходе которой...
СПб.: Типография Морского министерства, 1896. — X, II, II, IV, 636 с.
Целью настоящего труда служит исследование общей истории Европы и Америки, специально со стороны влияния морской силы на ход этой истории. и показать её первостепенное значение. Мэхен поставил перед собой важную задачу выявить точные факторы этого влияния и сформулировать их.
Книга Мэхэна обнимает период с...
М.; Л.: Государственное военно-морское издательство, 1941. — X, 439 с. Предисловие Введение Элементы морского могущества Состояние Европы в 1660 г. — Вторая англо-голландская война (1665 — 1667). — Морские сражения: при Лоустофте (Lowestoft) и Четырехдневное Война блока Англии и Франции против Соединенных Провинций (1672—1674). — Война Франции против объединенной Европы...
Монография. — М.: Директ-Медиа, 2014. — 566 с. — ISBN 978-5-4475-3257-4. Мэхэн Альфред Тайер (1840-1914) - американский военно-морской теоретик, контр-адмирал, историк. Вашему вниманию предлагается книга "Влияние морской силы на историю 1660-1783". Настоящий труд является результатом работ автора при Военно-Морской Коллегии Соединенных Штатов в качестве лектора по...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2008. — 608 с. — (Хроники военных сражений). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-3590-2. Известный историк и морской офицер Альфред Мэхэн подвергает глубокому анализу значительные события эпохи мореплавания, произошедшие с 1660 по 1783 год. В качестве теоретической базы он избрал наиболее успешные морские стратегии прошлого – от Древней Греции и Рима до Франции эпохи...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2008. — 608 с. — (Хроники военных сражений). — ISBN 978-5-9524-3590-2 Известный историк и морской офицер Альфред Мэхэн подвергает глубокому анализу значительные события эпохи мореплавания, произошедшие с 1660 по 1783 год. В качестве теоретической базы он избрал наиболее успешные морские стратегии прошлого – от Древней Греции и Рима до Франции эпохи Наполеона....
СПб.: Terra Fantastica, 2002 / 1-е изд.Мэхэн А.Т. Влияние морской силы на историю 1660-1783. / Изд. Е.И.В. Наследника Цесаревича Вел. Кн. Георгия Александровича. Пер. с англ. Н.П. Азбелева. — СПб.: Тип. Морского Министерства, 1895.
В своем труде «Влияние морской силы на историю 1660-1783», выпущенном в 1889 г. в США, он первым ввел в научный оборот понятия «господство на море»...
СПб.: Издательство: Тип. морского министерства, 1896. - 684 с.
Целью настоящего труда служит исследование общей истории Европы и Америки, специально со стороны влияния морской силы на ход этой истории. и показать её первостепенное значение. Мэхен поставил перед собой важную задачу выявить точные факторы этого влияния и сформулировать их.
Книга Мэхэна обнимает период с 1660...
М.: Тип. Русского товарищества, Б. г. — 91 с. Дореформенная орфография. Исследование генерал-лейтенанта Н.А. Орлова. Политическая обстановка. Зимний поход. Весенний поход. Сражение при Лютцене. Сражение при Бауцене. Осенний поход. Вооруженные силы сторон. Состав Главных квартир союзников. Группировка сил. Планы сторон. До сражения под Дрезденом. Сражение под Дрезденом 14 и 15...
СПб.: Типография А.Е. Колпинского, 1900. — 250 с.
Язык: Русский (дореформенный)
Бесплатное приложение к журналу "Всходы" за 1900 г. В книге рассматриваются освободительные войны XIX века: освобождение Греции, объединение Италии, война за освобождение негров, война за освобождение славян Балканского полуострова.
СПб., Типография А. Траншеля, 1876. — 58 с. Классическая работа известного российского историка 19-го века описывает Венский поход польской армии короля Яна Собеского на помощь осажденной турецкими войсками австрийской столице. Автор доказывает, что именно действия польских войск в сентябре 1683 года сыграли решающую роль в провале турецкой осады Вены и привели к итоговой победе...
Брошюра. — М.: Гос. воен. изд-во, 1924. — 38. В коротком обзоре автор сравнивает боевую работу красной конницы и конницы запада в мировую войну, объясняет причины того, что эволюция французской, германской и красной конницы шла различными путями.
М.: Государственное военное издательство, 1926. — 147 с. Настоящий труд не претендует на исчерпывающее изложение военно-морского искусства. Задача автора скромнее: показать основные этапы развития военного морского флота в ближайшую нам эпоху (с конца XVIII века до наших дней), дав общее представление об его эволюции для широкого круга военных читателей. В процессе ознакомления...
М.: Государственное военное издательство, 1926. — 147 с.
Настоящий труд не претендует на исчерпывающее изложение военно-морского искусства. Задача автора скромнее: показать основные этапы развития военного морского флота в ближайшую нам эпоху (с конца XVIII века до наших дней), дав общее представление об его эволюции для широкого круга военных читателей. В процессе ознакомления...
СПб.: Наука, 2019. — 604 с. — (Библиотека всемирной истории). Книга рассказывает об истории янычарского корпуса, правилах и нормах его комплектования и существования, а также той роли, которую сыграли янычары как в военных, так и во внутриполитических событиях Османской империи. В монографии показаны фундаментальные особенности функционирования османской государственности, ее...
М.: АСТ, 2002. — 98 с.
"Великие битвы и сражения" - серия книг о величайших и судьбоносных сражениях лучших армий мира с древнейших времен до наших дней. Великолепно написанные, фактологически точные, эти книги доставят истинное наслаждение настоящим любителям военной истории.
Книга посвящена событиям австро-турецкой войны, которые происходили в 1683 году, - осаде турками...
М.: АСТ, 2002. — 228 с. — (Великие битвы и сражения). — ISBN: 5-17-014474-1. Книга посвящена событиям австро-турецкой войны, которые происходили в 1683 году, - осаде турками Вены. Тогда в разгроме сил Оттоманской империи решающую роль сыграли польские войска под руководством Яна Собеского.
Перевод: Евгений Александрович Мордашев. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2024. Приступая к исследованию англо-американской войны на море 1812 года, 26-й президент США Теодор Рузвельт обращает внимание на довоенный политический и социальный климат в Великобритании и в Америке. Кроме того, он дает оценку состоянию армии и флота противников, отмечая неподготовленность Америки к войне....
М.: Воениздат, 1941. — 104 с. На основании изучения русских источников автор описывает действия британского конного корпуса в Синайской песчаной пустыне и в горах Палестины, Трансиордании и Сирии в последние годы мировой войны 1914–1918 гг. и делает выводы об особенностях использования кавалерийских соединений в условиях горно-пустынного театра. Книга рассчитана на...
К.: Дух i літера, 2012. — 97 с.
Книга посвящена истории одного из самых интересных и эффектных родов кавалерии - польской крылатой гусарии. Содержит богатый фактический материал из истории Польши и военной истории, иллюстрирована как рисунками той эпохи, так и современными реконструкциями.
Язык украинский.
Для изучающих историю Польши и военного дела.
Київ: Дух і літера. — 96 с. «З історії польських крилатих гусарів» – це яскраво ілюстрована книга, яка вводить читача у світ легендарної польської кавалерії. Ми знайомимось з історією цього видатного роду кавалерії за майже 300 років його існування. Автор представляє еволюцію спорядження і техніки ведення бойових дій. Доступна мова задовольнить як фахівців, так і всіх любителів...
Рогатин: Друкарня ПП Білінський, 2014. — 52 с. В збірнику розглядаються проблеми пов'язані з дослідженнями військової історії Монголії. Увагу присвячено монгольському війську. Проаналізований період з 13 століття і до сьогодення . Особливу увагу присвячено проблемам комплектування частин та застосування їх в бойових операціях. Описано події військового, громадського і...
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История военного дела: исследования и источники. — 2014. — Специальный выпуск II. Лекции по военной истории XVI-XIX вв. — Часть 1. — 48 с. Сражение при Сент-Готарде (или Сент-Готтхарде, произношение зависит от вкуса автора) относится к числу несправедливо забытых великих битв. В 1664 г. Османское нашествие грозило поработить страны Центральной Европы и, прежде всего, захлестнуть...
Харьков: Фолио, 2010. — 110 с.
За годы казачества очень многие события оставили след в народной памяти. Это и Переяславская рада, на которой была утверждена протекция Московского царства над Украиной, и раскол Украины, руина, произошедшие после рады. Это упразднение Гетманщины в 1764 году и разрушение Запорожской Сечи в 1775 году. Но были и более ранние события, в оценках...
М.: Эксмо, 2012. — 96 с. — (Великие битвы, изменившие ход истории). — ISBN: 978-5-699-52193-7. Книга британского автора Грегори Фримонт-Барнса «Трафальгар 1805. За Нельсона и короля!» посвящена одной из самых знаменитых и великих морских битв мировой истории. У мыса Трафальгар 21 октября 1805 года 27 британских и 33 франко-испанских корабля в течение четырех часов вели...
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