Preface The Early Thirty Years War Baner's War and the Battle of Wittstock Bernhard Sax-Weimar: The Battle of Rheinfelden Torstensson's War: 1642-1645-Second Breitenfeld and Jankow The Battle of Rocroi: The War in Flanders and France Mercy and Turenne: The Battles of Freiburg and Second Nordingen The Battle of Zusmarshausen: The End of the Thirty Years War Glossary Bibliography
A detailed study of the military aspects of this important early modern conflict.
William P. Guthrie is an independent researcher._Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1992, he has written extensively on military history and the 17th century. This is his second book.
[G]uthrie has done a great service to students of the art of
warfare in early modern Europe. . . . Where Guthrie really shines
is in his analysis of leading personalities and his battle
narratives. These sections are solidly researched, exhaustive, and
to a large extent previously unavailable in a single treatment,
certainly so in English. . . . [G]uthrie has made a major
contribution to the English-language literature on the Thirty
Years' War….^IThe Later Thirty Years War^R is a profoundly useful
book.
*H-NET*
Guthrie has done an amazing job of organizing and clearly
presenting a huge variety of information covering the makeup,
leadership, and actions of armies from throughout Europe. Scholars
particularly will find valuable the tables contained in each
chapter that list participating armies by regiment and the index of
military units at the end of work, that allows the actions of the
individual units to be traced throughout the war. The book's
strength lies in its value as a reference work. It gives a clear
and well-organized description of a wide variety of details
regarding the military history of the Thirty Year's War. . . . [A]n
incredibly valuable work because of the enormous variety of
information carefully and clearly described in the book. Scholars
and students who want details regarding the armies and battles of
the Thirty Year's War will find the book quite useful.
*Journal of Modern History*
[A]n immensely handy reference to military operations during final
years of the long war. . . . Well worth reading-and having-for
anyone with a serious interest in the conduct of war during the
early seventeenth century.
*NYMAS Review*
[I]mmensely useful for the extraordinary amount of material that it
contains.
*NYMAS Newsletter*
What, seen from a distance, appears as mere pillaging, Guthrie
shows to have frequently been an increasingly sophisticated waging
of stomach war. Military, the second half of the Thirty Years War
may have been unspectacular, but it was hardly inconsequential.
*German Studies Review*
By offering the most detailed coverage in English of the neglected
later stage of the war, the book should shift Anglophone discussion
away from the great Gustavus Adolphus towards a more balanced
treatment of the entire conflict.
*Journal of Military History*
The military aspects of the book are very useful not only for those
interested in the history of the Thirty Years' War, but also for
those curious about the history of the art of war.
*The Sixteenth Century Journal*
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