Book Reviews

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Recent Book Reviews:

The Seven Years War in Europe, 1756-1763, by Franz A.J. Szabo, reviewed by William Young (September 2012).

The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe, by David Parrott, reviewed by William Young (August 2012).

The Road to Rocroi: Class, Culture and Command in the Spanish Army of Flanders, 1567-1659, by Fernando González de León, reviewed by William Young (August 2012).

The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-56, by Andrew Lambert, reviewed by William Young (August 2012).

Wallenstein: The Enigma of the Thirty Years War, by Geoff Mortimer, reviewed by William Young (August 2012).

Empire and Military Revolution in Eastern Europe: Russia’s Turkish Wars in the Eighteenth Century, by Brian L. Davies, reviewed by William Young (July 2012).

The Italian Wars, 1494-1559: War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe, by Michael Mallett and Christine Shaw, reviewed by William Young (July 2012)

The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, by Olaf van Nimwegen, reviewed by William Young (May 2012)

Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses, by David Santiuste, reviewed by William Young (January 2012)

Henry VIII and Francis I: The Final Conflict, 1540-1547, by David Potter, reviewed by William Young (January 2012)

Marshal Vauban and the Defence of Louis XIV’s France, by James Falkner, reviewed by William Young  (January 2012).

Cross and Crescent in the Balkans: The Ottoman Conquest of South-Eastern Europe (14^th-15^th Centuries), by David Nicolle, reviewed by William Young (August 2011).

Hitler’s Commander: Field Marshal Walther Model- Hitler’s Favorite General, by Steven H. Newton, reviewed by T. Kunikov (July 2007).