A comprehensive guide to the daily lives of European soliders in the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries covers the reasons and preparations for war, l

Part of the 'Soldiers' Lives Through History' series, this book vividly brings to life the soldier in the Middle Ages, from Scotland to Portugal, and the Medite

This book presents a collection of essays charting the developments in military practice and warfare across the world in the early modern period. It also consid

When looking at the early modern period (c. 1500–c. 1800), we often speak of "the military" or "the army". But what exactly do we mean when using these terms?

This is the story of the evolution of the citizen army throughout Western nations during the nineteenth century and up through World War I. The French Revolutio