Although the Spanish were only occasionally involved in the fighting in Germany the book is well done. Last of all is Pierre Picouet's The Armies of Philip IV of Spain, 1621-1665. Much better are the two volumes by Michael Fredholm von Essen: The Lion From the North, The Swedish Army During the Thirty Years War: Volume 1, 1618-1632 and The Lion From the North, The Swedish Army During the Thirty Years War: Volume 2, 1632-1648. Very often he is forced to say what was being done elsewhere in Europe and extrapolate those details onto the two armies in question. Laurence Spring's two books, The Bavarian Army During the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 and In the Emperor's Service: Wallenstein's Army, 1625-1634, are somewhat limited in the resources available on the topic.
Guthrie also has a third volume which I have not seen: William Guthrie, Actions of the Thirty Years War: Eastern Europe, the Baltic, Italy and France.įor details on armies, Helion & Company offer the following. In the past he has been taken to task on this board by Daniel S for much the same reasons as the review in: But Guthrie's work is flawed as the accuracy of his narrative is sometimes very suspect and he does not footnote his sources. You might also want to consider William Guthrie's two volumes, Battles of the Thirty Years War: From White Mountain to Nordlingen, 1618-1635 and The Later Thirty Years War: From the Battle of Wittstock to the Treaty of Westphalia. A lot shorter at 339 pages it has more details on the military aspects. I would also recommend the Geoffrey Parker, The Thirty Years War. It comes in at 997 pages and is pretty dry reading.
It, however, deals extensively with the politics of the period, although it does not neglect the military side of things. Peter Wilson's book, first published in the UK as Europe's Tragedy: A History of the Thirty Years War, then in the US as The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy, and most recently in paperback as Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War, is the best general history of the war. Here is what I can offer from the books in my shelves.
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