Breitenfeld & the Thirty Years War The Battle of White Mountain The 1622 Campaign: The Battle of Wimpfen The Battle of Stadtlohn The Danish War: Dessau and Lutter Gustavus's Run of Victory Gustavus vs. Wallenstein The War in Westphalia The Battle of Nordlingen Glossary Bibliography Index
The first complete study of the military aspects of the German War in this important conflict.
WILLIAM P. GUTHRIE is an independent researcher. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science. This is his first book. He lives in Maryland and is currently working on a follow up volume, covering the second half of the Thirty Years War.
William Guthrie has performed a splendid service by writing a book
that describes each of the major engagements of the Thirty Year War
from its outbreak to the entry of France, at which point it
expanded into a pan-European conflict.
*Arquebusier*
Guthrie's Battles of the Thirty Years War attempts to fill this
gap, and it does so in solid if formulaic style, laying out the
strengths of the opposing forces, the abilities and personalities
of the commanders, and the tactical details of the actions. . . .
Without this book one is forced to glean this kind of detail from a
myriad of obscure works written in several languages. Nor does
Guthrie simply summarize these older works; he also provides
intelligent, original analysis-both tactical and strategic-of his
own. Scholars will also find Guthrie's brief but effective
intorduction useful, for it provides a detailed explanation of
military technology, tactical organization, and military practice
of the period, something that is lacking in anglophone
historiography…this is a well-researched and unique reference work
that should find favor with scholars of the Thirty Years' War or
early modern warfare.
*The Journal of Military History*
[A]n immensely handy reference to military operations during the
first 17 years of the war, with a focus on the actual engagements.
There are numerous tables discussing the apportionment of personnel
among the arms, mini-biographies of commanders notable and not so
notable, and much more. Well worth reading--and having--for anyone
with a serious interest in the conduct of war during the early
seventeenth century.
*The New York Military Affairs Newsletter*
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