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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

    $38.99 CAD

  • 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

    $120.99 CAD

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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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  • The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo

    by Edward Creasy ...
    Series series The World At War
    This book tells us the story of the fifteen military engagements (from Marathon to Waterloo) which, had a significant impact on world history. The selection reflects the worldview of a 19th-century European with a classical education: fourteen of the battles took place in the arc of historically interconnected military theatres which stretched from Persia through the Mediterranean Basin to Europe, ... Read more

    $3.14 CAD

  • The Prince + The Art of War (2 Unabridged Machiavellian Masterpieces) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Power, Statecraft, and Military Strategy in Renaissance Political Realism

    by Niccolò Machiavelli, Selah Kestmere ...
    Bringing together The Prince and The Art of War, this unabridged pairing presents Machiavelli's most influential reflections on power, statecraft, and military organization. The Prince, terse and unsentimental, distills political rule into a study of necessity, fortune, virtue, and calculated force; The Art of War, cast in classical dialogue form, extends these concerns to civic militia, ... 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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  • Secret Diplomatic History

    by Karl Marx ...
    To understand a limited historical epoch, we must step beyond its limits, and compare it with other historical epochs. To judge Governments and their acts, we must measure them by their own times and the conscience of their contemporaries. Nobody will condemn a British statesman of the 17th century for acting on a belief in witchcraft, if he find Bacon himself ranging demonology in the catalogue ... 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 ...
    Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffroi de Villehardouin libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles! ... Read more

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  • The Art of War - an Andy McNab War Classic: The beautifully reproduced illustrated 1882 edition, with introductions by Andy McNab and Henry Cust. M. P.

    by Niccolò Machiavelli, Andy McNab ...
    - Introduction from SAS and Gulf War hero Andy McNab DCM MM- The 1882 edition of The Art of War- Preface by Niccolò Machiavelli- Translated from Italian by Christian E Detmold- Bonus material: Introduction by Henry Cust, MP- Complete with all the original illustrations- Beautifully formatted in this Apostrophe Books editionThe Art of War sees political and military theory brought together by one ... Read more

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