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Autore: |
Lunde Henrik O (Henrik Olai), <1936->
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Titolo: |
A warrior dynasty : the rise and fall of Sweden as a military superpower 1611-1721 / / Henrik O. Lunde
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Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia ; ; Oxford : , : Casemate Publishers, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (322 pages) |
Disciplina: | 948.5 |
948.5034 | |
Soggetto geografico: | Sweden History, Military 17th century |
Sweden History, Military 18th century | |
Sweden History Gustav II Adolf, 1611-1632 | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ""MAP AND BATTLE SKETCH INDEX""; ""PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Chapter 1 Gustav Adolf's Danish and Baltic Campaigns""; ""Chapter 2 The Military Revolution: Dutch and Swedish Reforms""; ""Chapter 3 Sweden Intervenes in the Thirty Years War""; ""Chapter 4 The Breitenfeld and Rhine Campaigns""; ""Chapter 5 The Tortured Road to LuÌtzen""; ""Chapter 6 Swedish Military Operations in Germany 1633-1648""; ""Chapter 7 Defending an Empire: Karl X and Karl XI""; ""Chapter 8 Karl XII's Danish and Baltic Campaigns"" |
""Chapter 9 The Russian Campaign: Karl XII's Exile and Death"" ""SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""Appendix I BIOGRAPHIC SKETCHES OFSELECTED SOURCE AUTHORS""; ""Appendix II SELECTED EUROPEAN RULERS 1500-1700""; ""Appendix III LIST OF FIELD MARSHALS MENTIONED""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX"" | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book examines the meteoric rise of Sweden as the pre-eminent military power in Europe during the Thirty Years War during the 1600s, and then follows its line of warrior kings into the next century until the Swedes finally meet their demise, in an overreach into the vastness of Russia.A small Scandinavian nation, with at most one and a half million people and scant internal resources of its own, there was small logic to how Sweden could become the dominant power on the Continent. That Sweden achieved this was due to its leadership-a case-study in history when pure military skill, and that |
Titolo autorizzato: | A warrior dynasty ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-61200-243-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910817868303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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