The Later Thirty Years War From the Battle of Wittstock to the Treaty of Westphalia

Subjects:

• Military Studies » Military History
• History » European History -- Early Modern/Renaissance
• Military Studies » Strategy & Tactics

Reviews:

• [G]uthrie has done a great service to students of the art of warfare in early modern Europe....Where Guthrie really shines is in his analysis of leading personalities and his battle narratives. These sections are solidly researched, exhaustive, and to a large extent previously unavailable in a single treatment, certainly so in English....[G]uthrie has made a major contribution to the English-language literature on the Thirty Years' War....The Later Thirty Years War is a profoundly useful book.
  —H-NET November 2005
• Guthrie has done an amazing job of organizing and clearly presenting a huge variety of information covering the makeup, leadership, and actions of armies from throughout Europe. Scholars particularly will find valuable the tables contained in each chapter that list participating armies by regiment and the index of military units at the end of work, that allows the actions of the individual units to be traced throughout the war. The book's strength lies in its value as a reference work. It gives a clear and well-organized description of a wide variety of details regarding the military history of the Thirty Year's War....[a]n incredibly valuable work because of the enormous variety of information carefully and clearly described in the book. Scholars and students who want details regarding the armies and battles of the Thirty Year's War will find the book quite useful.
  —Journal of Modern History June 2005
• [a]n immensely handy reference to military operations during final years of the long war....Well worth reading-and having-for anyone with a serious interest in the conduct of war during the early seventeenth century.
  —NYMAS Review Spring 2004
• [i]mmensely useful for the extraordinary amount of material that it contains.
  —NYMAS Newsletter Winter-Spring 2003
• What, seen from a distance, appears as mere pillaging, Guthrie shows to have frequently been an increasingly sophisticated waging of "stomach war." Military, the second half of the Thirty Years War may have been unspectacular, but it was hardly inconsequential.
  —German Studies Review May 2004
• By offering the most detailed coverage in English of the neglected later stage of the war, the book should shift Anglophone discussion away from the great Gustavus Adolphus towards a more balanced treatment of the entire conflict.
  —Journal of Military History .
• The military aspects of the book are very useful not only for those interested in the history of the Thirty Years' War, but also for those curious about the history of the art of war.
  —The Sixteenth Century Journal Winter 2005

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• The Early Thirty Years War
• Baner's War and the Battle of Wittstock
• Bernhard Sax-Weimar: The Battle of Rheinfelden
• Torstensson's War: 1642-1645-Second Breitenfeld and Jankow
• The Battle of Rocroi: The War in Flanders and France
• Mercy and Turenne: The Battles of Freiburg and Second Nordingen
• The Battle of Zusmarshausen: The End of the Thirty Years War
• Glossary
• Bibliography