Gustavus V Wallenstein

Author : John Pike
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399012681
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gustavus v Wallenstein written by John Pike and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the epic conflict and contrasting leadership styles of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, two titanic figures in the Thirty Years War whose strategic brilliance and dramatic deaths shaped the course of modern warfare, analyzed in vivid detail by the author. The conflict, personal rivalry and contrast in personality, generalship and command, between the two iconic commanders in the Thirty Years War, King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden for the Protestant powers, and Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland. More than just commanders at the tactical level they were statesmen, military organizers and strategists on a continental scale. Both commanders represented the 17th-century ‘military revolution in action’. The writing is vivid, graphic and detailed, without overloading, and readers can feel ‘involved’ in the action, from strategic planning to battlefield tactics, and even the melee. Both generals are titanic figures come, and their respective deaths - Gustavus heroically in battle and Wallenstein, murdered with the Emperor’s compliance – were dramatic highpoints in the long war. This is no hagiography, and the author analyses the contrasting reputations of two of the greatest military figures in modern history and analyses mistakes as well their triumphs. Both commanders’ understanding of the role of the modern state and finance as vital factors in the military revolution and modern warfare. A major contrast was Gustavus’s constant search for the tactical and strategic initiative compared to Wallenstein’s caution and patience and development of counter-punch defensive tactics. Exceptional for the period, a young warrior like an ‘Alexander’, Gustavus excelled in inspired battlefield leadership even at huge risk. Despite his death at Lutzen in 1632, he and his steadfast chancellor Oxenstierna, had decisively defeated the Emperor’s attempt to subjugate the Empire and introduce the Catholic counter-reformation. Gustavus contributed hugely to the ending of Habsburg supremacy while advancing new concepts in modern war. His death ushered in his acolytes including generals Baner, Saxe-Weimar and Torstensson. Gustavus or Wallenstein, the greater of the two? The reader must judge but Napoleon included Gustavus in his list of ten greats with Julius Caesar, Hannibal Barca, and Alexander the Great.

Author : G. Mortimer
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230272125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallenstein written by G. Mortimer and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albrecht Wallenstein was a legendary military commander and generalissimo of the Habsburg forces, yet was eventually assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand II. This accessible modern biography of Wallenstein for the English-speaking reader dispels the many historical myths surrounding this central character of the Thirty Years War.

Author : Oliver Huntington Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Syllabus of Continental European History from the Fall of Rome to 1870 written by Oliver Huntington Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia Frankau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.YS/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart of a Child written by Julia Frankau and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin van Creveld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521297936
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supplying War written by Martin van Creveld and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Were the railways vital to Prussia's victory over France in 1870? Was the famous Schlieffen Plan militarily sound? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only a few of the questions that form the subject-matter of this meticulously researched, lively book. Drawing on a very wide range of unpublished and previously unexploited sources, Martin van Creveld examines the 'nuts and bolts' of war: namely, those formidable problems of movement and supply, transportation and administration, so often mentioned - but rarely explored - by the vast majority of books on military history. In doing so he casts his net far and wide, from Gustavus Adolphus to Rommel, from Marlborough to Patton, subjecting the operations of each to a thorough analysis from a fresh and unusual point of view. The result is a fascinating book that has something new to say about virtually every one of the most important campaigns waged in Europe during the last two centuries.

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spain and the Netherlands, 1559-1659 written by Geoffrey Parker and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1979 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Gildea
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300067118
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Past in French History written by Robert Gildea and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book examines how the past pervades French public life, how the French both commemorate their past triumphs, heroes, and martyrs and attempt to erase the more violent events in their history. The book surveys the ways that various political communities in France during the past two centuries have manufactured different versions of the past in order to define their identities and legitimate their goals. Beginning with a discussion of the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, Robert Gildea moves backward in time to show how rival factions have used various elements of French political culture--from the grandeur of the ancien r�gime to Catholicism, Jacobinism, Anarchism, and Bonapartism--to further their ends. Gildea shows how proponents of revolution and counterrevolution, church and state, centralism and regionalism, and national identity and nationalism campaigned to achieve the widest possible acceptance of their own view of the past. He describes the continuing battle between Left and Right for association with national heroes such as Joan of Arc and Napoleon. He exposes the reworking of collective views of the past by political communities, in order to increase or recover political legitimacy. Written in clear and trenchant prose, the book offers a new perspective on French history and political culture.

Author : Alfred H. Burne
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848328877
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crecy War written by Alfred H. Burne and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crecy, the Black Princes most famous victory, was the first of two major victories during the first part of the Hundred Years War. This was followed ten years later by his second great success at the Battle of Poitiers. The subsequent Treaty of Bretigny established the rights of the King of England to hold his domains in France without paying homage to the King of France.In this hugely-acclaimed military history Colonel Burne re-establishes the reputation of Edward III as a grand master of strategy, whose personal hand lay behind the success of Crecy. He convincingly demonstrates that much of the credit for Crecy and Poitiers should be given to Edward and less to his son, the Black Prince, than is traditionally the case.With his vigorous and exciting style, Colonel Burne has chronicled for the general reader as well as for the military enthusiast, one of the most exceptional wars in which England has ever been engaged. This book firmly restores the Crecy campaign to its rightful place near the pinnacle of British military history.A most important book a work of original research, written by a master of his subject A model of how history should be written, packed with accurate information and common sense.Sir Arthur Bryant in The Sunday Times

Author : B. Chapman (M.A.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Gustavus Adolphus and of the Thirty Years' War, Up to the King's Death: with Some Account of Its Conclusion by the Peace of Westphalia, Anno 1648 written by B. Chapman (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: