Soldiers' Lives Through History - The Early Modern World

Informationen zum Autor Dennis E. Showalter Klappentext Two distinguished historians tell the story of the early modern soldier of Europe, a figure often misunderstood, in the period spanning from 1494 to 1789. He is the freebooting Landsknecht of the sixteenth century, swaggering in dilapidated finery through the ruins he and his kind created. He is the mercenary of the Thirty Years War in the seventeenth century, rootless and masterless, brutalizing civilians for a few coins, destroying civilization's works for the pleasure of it. He is the uniformed automaton of the eighteenth century, initiative beaten out of him, fit to do no more than endure battles and floggings until he pitched into an anonymous grave. Zusammenfassung Two distinguished historians tell the story of the early modern soldier of Europe! a figure often misunderstood! in the period spanning from 1494 to 1789.

Product details

• Authors: William J. Astore, Dennis Showalter, Dennis E. Showalter, Dennis E./ Astore Showalter
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2007
• EAN: 9780313333125
• ISBN: 978-0-313-33312-5
• No. of pages: 183
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Soldiers' Lives Through Histor; Soldiers' Lives Through History; Soldiers' Lives Through Histor; Soldiers' Lives Through History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europa, 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), 16. Jahrhundert (1500 bis 1599 n. Chr.), Europäische Geschichte, Militärgeschichte, 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)