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  • A History of the Low Countries

    by Paul Arblaster ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Essential Histories
    This introductory overview of the Low Countries' history traces their development since Roman times, providing equal weighting to the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Paul Arblaster looks at political, cultural and social history, including the rise of the merchant classes, the Renaissance and Golden Age, and the two world wars of the 20th century. The final chapter has been expanded and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Siege of Breda, 1624-25

    Herman Hugo’s First-Hand Account

    Edited by Paul Arblaster ...
    This book presents Herman Hugo's The Siege of Breda (1626) in a modern-spelling edition of Henry Gage's 1627 English translation, introduced and contextualised by Paul Arblaster.Hugo's text is a classic of Latin Baroque historical writing that comprehensively recounts a nine-month military campaign in the Low Countries (1624-25) which was a showcase of early 17th-century siege warfare and ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • The Thirty Years War, 1618–1648

    The First Global War and the End of the Habsburg Supremacy

    by John Pike ...
    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 localised political and religious dispute in Germany, transformed into a European and global conflict. In seeking to exploit the Bohemian ... Read more

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  • From Marathon to Waterloo

    by Edward Shepherd Creasy ...
    A fascinating look at some of the most important battles that have shaped the course of history: including Marathon, Hastings, the Spanish Armada, Saratoga and more. ... Read more

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  • The Prince + The Art of War

    Enriched edition. 2 Masterpieces of Strategy

    by Niccolò Machiavelli, Lily Wharton ...
    In Niccolò Machiavelli's seminal works, *The Prince* and *The Art of War*, the author intricately examines the mechanics of power and governance, delivering profound insights into the nature of political leadership and military strategy during the Italian Renaissance. Written in a direct and pragmatic style, these texts reflect a stark realism, eschewing moralistic narratives in favor of candid ... Read more

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  • Secret Diplomatic History of the Eighteenth Century

    With a New Critical Introduction

    by Karl Marx ...
    Series Book 282 - The Progress Publishers Library
    Marx's least-known book, and the one the Moscow anthologies left out.He wrote it in English, in London, across 1856 and 1857, and it appeared in instalments in The Free Press - the paper of David Urquhart's small circle of Russophobe followers, with whom Marx worked in these years without ever sharing their politics. He thought them cranks and said so; they printed what nobody else would, and it ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the Dutch Republic -- Volume 21: 1573-74

    by John Lothrop Motley ...
    "The Rise of the Dutch Republic" by John Lothrop Motley is a comprehensive historical account that delves into the struggle for independence of the Dutch provinces from Spanish rule. This volume, focusing on the years 1573-74, captures the intense political and military conflicts that characterized this pivotal period. Motley's narrative is rich with detail, providing insights into key figures and ... Read more

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  • The Art of War in the Middle Ages A.D. 378-1515

    by Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman ...
    The Art of War has been very simply defined as ‘the art which enables any commander to worst the forces opposed to him.’ It is therefore conversant with an enormous variety of subjects: Strategy and Tactics are but two of the more important of its branches. Besides dealing with discipline, organization, and armament, it is bound to investigate every means which can be adapted to increase the ... Read more

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  • The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia

    The Tsar who Transformed Russia: A Historical Biography

    by Voltaire ...
    Translated by T. Smollett ...
    In "The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia," Voltaire presents a nuanced and engaging narrative that traverses the life of one of history's most influential monarchs. Written in the Enlightenment style, the book employs a blend of anecdote, satire, and historical analysis to examine Peter's reforms, military conquests, and the transformative ambitions that reshaped Russia into a ... Read more

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  • Anglo-Dutch Rivalry during the First Half of the Seventeenth Century

    by George Edmundson ...
    The varying fortunes of the obstinate and fiercely contested struggles with the Dutch for maritime and commercial supremacy in the days of the Commonwealth and the Restoration are familiar to all readers of English history, and especially of English naval history. Never did English seamen fight better than in these Dutch wars, and never did they meet more redoubtable foes. The details of the many ... Read more

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  • A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century

    by Sir Charles Oman ...
    THE BEST ACCOUNT OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY WARFARE BY THE AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WARThis is an unrivalled account of sixteenth-century warfare, in which Sir Charles Oman traces the dramatic, far-reaching changes in the military strategy, tactics and organization of the period.Showing how warfare developed, he covers the Great Wars of 1949-1559; military events in Tudor England, including ... Read more

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  • Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople

    by Geoffroi de Villehardouin ...
    Be it known to you that eleven hundred and ninety-seven years after the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the time of Innocent Pope of Rome, and Philip King of France, and Richard King of England, there was in France a holy man named Fulk of Neuilly - which Neuilly is between Lagni-sur-Marne and Paris - and he was a priest and held the cure of the village. And this said Fulk began to speak ... Read more

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