17th and 18th Century European history from the Swedish - Russian War and the battle of Poltava 1709, War of Spanish Succession, the siege of Gibraltar, Battle of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet and the war of Austrian Succession and the battles of Fontenoy and Dettingen, covered in historical books by leading book publishers available from Cranston Fine Arts.

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Marlborough as Military Commander by David G Chandler.

To Dr. David Chandler, Marlborough is without doubt the greatest British military commander in history. Here is his detailed, informed and dispassionate analysis of Marlboroughs qualities as a military leader, set against the military realities of the period.

Illustrated paperback with 368 pages.

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Kolin 1757, Frederick the Great's First Defeat by Simon Millar

In May of 1757 Frederick the Great invaded Bohemia, smashed an Austrian army outside Prague and bottled it up in the city.  The Empress Maria Theresa despatched Marshal Daun with 60,000 men to save the Empire's second city.  Frederick had won a string of victories over the Austrians and was convinced his men would always triumph.  Although outnumbered he attacked, but the Austrians were waiting.  His army was defeated and forced to withdraw.  As his veterans commented, 'they were not the same old Austrians at all'.  Simon Millar shows how Frederick's overconfidence proved his undoing at Kolin.

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Rossbach and Leuthen 1757, Prussia's Eagle Resurgent by Simon Millar.

By the autumn of 1757 Frederick the Great was beset by enemies on all sides.  The French had invaded allied territory, an Austrian army 110,000 strong had marched into Silesia and even the Russians had moved against him.  The nwithin a month Frederick transformed his fortunes.  At Rossbach on 5 November he smashed the Franco-Imperial army in barely one and a half hours.  Force-marching to Silesia he won perhaps his greatest victory exactly a month later, crushing the Austrian army at Leuthen.  The Emperor Napoleon considered Frederick's lightning campaign 'a masterpiece of manoeuvre and resolution'.

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Zorndorf 1758, Frederick faces Holy Mother Russia by Simon Millar

In January 1758 Count Villim Fermor marched into East Prussia at the head of 45,000 Russians.  Frederick the Great was dismissive of the Russian army and failed to take the threat seriously.  With the Russians laying siege to the fortress of Custrin, Frederick crossed the River Oder and cut their supply lines.  On 25 August the two armies met at Zorndorf.  This book details the bitter day long battle in which the Russian infantry refused to buckle.  Casualties were horrific, the Russians losing almost half their army.  Frederick had managed to stave off the Russian threat but his opinion of their army had hanged dramatically.

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The Making of a World Power by James Scott Wheeler

In 1605 England was a second-rate European power. There was neither a fulltime navy nor a standing army. For the first 30 years of the 17th century English naval forces and military expeditions remained semi-private affairs, and campaigns against Spain and France in the 1620s and Scotland in 1639-40 were abysmal failures due in large part to the lack of trained officers to lead them. By 1705, however, this situation had changed dramatically, and England's professional army and navy were playing crucial roles in Europe and in North America. British army and navy personnel, backed by well-established military and financial organisations at home and abroad, allowed the island nation to become a leading European nation state and world power.

To explain this dramatic turnaround, Professor Wheeler refutes existing scholarship that places Britain's military and financial revolutions after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He locates them earlier and, in particular, explains how they were centrally related to the mid-seventeenth century conflicts, both domestic and foreign.

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Marlborough by Correlli Barnett.

This remarkable book by the outstanding military historian of his generation, seeks to bring life to the heroic figure behind the age of Blenheim. The emphasis of the narrative lies throughout on the character and personality of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, rather than on the general historical events of his life.

The course of Marlboroughs war leadership is narrated with clarity, colour, pace and immediacy, rendering Marlboroughs talents and achievements explicable in terms of the military art of his time. He emerges as the greatest soldier of his age, and in the forefront of commanders of all time.

Illustrated paperback with 288 pages.

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The Military Experience in the Age of Reason by Christopher Duffy.

War in the 18th Century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. Today we marvel at the courage of those who plodded slowly and remorselessly into the maelstrom. How did they come to do it, and why?

The scope of Christopher Duffys investigation is wide. The brutalities of the battlefield naturally assume a central place, but he also traces the lives of the officer and soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement, and shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.

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Lützen 1632, Climax of the Thirty Years War by Richard Brzezinski

The Thirty Years War, a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants, raged across Europe between 1618 and 1648, devastating huge areas of Germany. By 1632 the Protestant powers were in a desperate situation until King Gustavus Adolphus II of Sweden, 'the Lion of the North', came to their rescue. This book describes how, having smashed one of the two main Catholic armies, he faced the other at Lützen near Leipzig in November 1632. In a nightmare battle fought in thick fog, his Swedish troops locked horns with the Imperial army. It was a bloody clash, in which Gustavus himself demonstrated true courage at the head of his cavalry - and one for which he would pay the ultimate price.

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Poltava 1709, Russia Comes of Age by Angus Konstam 

Poltava marked the demise of Sweden as a European great power and the rise of Russia. In 1707, the seemingly invincible Charles XII led his army deep into Russia. It was to prove his undoing - the long march eroded the fighting strength of the invaders; a vital supply convoy was lost; and the winter of 1708/1709 was the worst in living memory. In this superbly illustrated volume, Angus Konstam tells the dramatic story of the destruction of the Swedish army.

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The British Army 1660-1704 by John Tincey & G Embleton

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Frederick The Great's Army by Albert Seaton & Michael Youens

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Frederick the Great's Army 2 Infantry by Philip Haythornthwaite & Bryan Fosten

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The Austro-Hungarian Army of the Seven Years War by Albert Seaton & R Ottenfeld

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King George's Army 1740-1793 (3) by Stuart Reid & Paul Chappell

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Wolfe's Army by Robin May & Gerry Embleton

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Montcalm's Army by Martin Windrow & Michael Roffe

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