Author: Theodore Ayrault Dodge
Publisher: Hansebooks
ISBN: 9783348100564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gustavus Adolphus - A history of the art of war from its revival after the middle ages to the end of the Spanish succession war. Volume 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Gustavus Adolphus
Author: Theodore Ayrault Dodge
Publisher: Hansebooks
ISBN: 9783348100564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gustavus Adolphus - A history of the art of war from its revival after the middle ages to the end of the Spanish succession war. Volume 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Publisher: Hansebooks
ISBN: 9783348100564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gustavus Adolphus - A history of the art of war from its revival after the middle ages to the end of the Spanish succession war. Volume 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden and the Thirty Years War, 1630–1632
Author: Lars Ericson Wolke
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1526749629
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The little-known story of the Swedish king and military commander who conquered much of Germany in the early seventeenth century. As one of the foremost military commanders of the early seventeenth century, Gustavus Adophus, 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 conquering large parts of Germany. Yet remarkably little has been written about him in English, and no full account of his extraordinary career has been published in recent times. That is why this perceptive and scholarly study is of such value. The book sets Gustavus in the context of Swedish and European dynastic politics and religious conflict in the early seventeenth century, and describes in detail Swedish military organization and Gustavus’s reforms. His intervention in the Thirty Years War is covered in graphic detail—the decision to intervene, his alliance with France, his campaigns across the breadth of Germany, and his generalship at the two major battles he fought there. His exceptional skill as a battlefield commander transformed the fortunes of the Protestant side in the conflict, and he had established himself as a major European figure before his death on the battlefield. Lars Ericson Wolke, one of the leading experts on the military history of the Baltic and the Thirty Years War, offers a fascinating insight into Gustavus the man and the soldier.
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1526749629
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The little-known story of the Swedish king and military commander who conquered much of Germany in the early seventeenth century. As one of the foremost military commanders of the early seventeenth century, Gustavus Adophus, 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 conquering large parts of Germany. Yet remarkably little has been written about him in English, and no full account of his extraordinary career has been published in recent times. That is why this perceptive and scholarly study is of such value. The book sets Gustavus in the context of Swedish and European dynastic politics and religious conflict in the early seventeenth century, and describes in detail Swedish military organization and Gustavus’s reforms. His intervention in the Thirty Years War is covered in graphic detail—the decision to intervene, his alliance with France, his campaigns across the breadth of Germany, and his generalship at the two major battles he fought there. His exceptional skill as a battlefield commander transformed the fortunes of the Protestant side in the conflict, and he had established himself as a major European figure before his death on the battlefield. Lars Ericson Wolke, one of the leading experts on the military history of the Baltic and the Thirty Years War, offers a fascinating insight into Gustavus the man and the soldier.
Gustavus Adolphus and the Rise of Sweden
Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340124147
Category : Suède - Histoire - 1611-1632 (Gustave II Adolphe)
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340124147
Category : Suède - Histoire - 1611-1632 (Gustave II Adolphe)
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The Military Life of Gustavus Adolphus
Author: Trevor Nevitt Dupuy
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780531018781
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
A biography emphasizing the military career of the seventeenth-century Swedish king whose new system of warfare was used well into the twentieth century.
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780531018781
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
A biography emphasizing the military career of the seventeenth-century Swedish king whose new system of warfare was used well into the twentieth century.
The Lion of the North
Author: George Alfred Henty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Gustavus Adolphus
Author: Theodore Ayrault Dodge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military history, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military history, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Gustavus Adolphus
Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher: London, Longmans, 1953- .
ISBN:
Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher: London, Longmans, 1953- .
ISBN:
Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
History of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus II.
Author: Harriet Earhart Monroe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Gustavus Adolphus
Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher: London, Longmans, 1953- .
ISBN:
Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher: London, Longmans, 1953- .
ISBN:
Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Chinese Lessons
Author: John Pomfret
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429935189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China's hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future."—The New York Times Book Review As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Crammed into a dorm room with seven Chinese men, Pomfret contended with all manner of cultural differences, from too-short beds and roommates intent on glimpsing a white man naked, to the need for cloak-and-dagger efforts to conceal his relationships with Chinese women. Amidst all that, he immersed himself in the remarkable lives of his classmates. Beginning with Pomfret's first day in China, Chinese Lessons takes us down the often torturous paths that brought together the Nanjing University History Class of 1982: Old Wu's father was killed during the Cultural Revolution for the crime of being an intellectual; Book Idiot Zhou labored in the fields for years rather than agree to a Party-arranged marriage; and Little Guan was forced to publicly denounce and humiliate her father. As Pomfret follows his classmates from childhood to adulthood, he examines the effect of China's transition from near-feudal communism to first-world capitalism. The result is an illuminating report from present-day China, and a moving portrait of its extraordinary people.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429935189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
"A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China's hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future."—The New York Times Book Review As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Crammed into a dorm room with seven Chinese men, Pomfret contended with all manner of cultural differences, from too-short beds and roommates intent on glimpsing a white man naked, to the need for cloak-and-dagger efforts to conceal his relationships with Chinese women. Amidst all that, he immersed himself in the remarkable lives of his classmates. Beginning with Pomfret's first day in China, Chinese Lessons takes us down the often torturous paths that brought together the Nanjing University History Class of 1982: Old Wu's father was killed during the Cultural Revolution for the crime of being an intellectual; Book Idiot Zhou labored in the fields for years rather than agree to a Party-arranged marriage; and Little Guan was forced to publicly denounce and humiliate her father. As Pomfret follows his classmates from childhood to adulthood, he examines the effect of China's transition from near-feudal communism to first-world capitalism. The result is an illuminating report from present-day China, and a moving portrait of its extraordinary people.