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Biography (General)  Britain 15th Century  Britain 16th Century Britain 17th Century
China & SE Asia Europe (General) Europe 15th century Europe 16th Century
Europe 17th Century Europe 18th Century France 17th Century India
Italy Literature Mexico Netherlands
Ottoman Empire Poland Samurai Spain
Spanish Main South America Sweden Switzerland
Wargames      

Biography (General)


Caraman, P., Ignatius Loyola, 1994, Fount, 0-00-627487-0

Britain 15th Century


Bennett, M., Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke, 1987, Sutton, 0-312-01213-6
Haigh, P.A., The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses, 1995, Bramley, 1-85833-770-4
Wise, T.A., & Embleton, G.A., The Wars of the Roses, 1983, Osprey Men At Arms 145, 0-85045-520-0

Britain 16th Century


Cruickshank, C.G., Elizabeth's Army, 1966, OUP, 1-98-81148-9
Durham, K. & McBride, A., The Border Reivers, 1995, Osprey Men At Arms 279, 1-85532-560-8
Falls, C., Elizabeth's Irish Wars, Constable, 1996, 0-09-477-220-7
Fraser, A., Mary Queen of Scots, 1985, Methuen, 0-413-57380-X
Fraser, G.M., The Steel Bonnets, 1995, Harper Collins, 0-00-272746-3
Hepburn, S. & Robson, E., In Search of the Border Reivers, 1998,  Ordnance Survey, 0-319-00937-8
Scarisbrick, J.J., Henry VIII, 1997, Yale, 0-300-0715802
Somerset, A., Elizabeth I, 1992, Fontana, 0-00-637820-X

Britain 17th Century


Adair, J., Contemporary Accounts of the Siege of Basing House, 1981, HCC.
Ashley, M., England in the Seventeenth Century, 1978, Hutchinson, 0-09-133711-9
Ashley, M., The English Civil War, 1980,Thames & Hudson, 0-500-27166-6
Asquith, A. & Gilder, P., The Campaign of  Naseby 1645, 1979, Osprey Wargames 1, 0-85045-337-2
Asquith, S., New Model Army, 1981, Osprey Men At Arms 110, 0-85945-385-2
Baker, A., A Battlefield Atlas of the English Civil War, 1986, PRC, 1-85648-334-7
Beddard, R., A Kingdom Without a King, 1988, Phaidon Press, 0-7148-2500-X
Bence-Jones, M., The Cavaliers, 1976, Constable, 0-09-461260-9
Disbury, D., Beef, Bacon and Bag Pudding, 1998, Timescape, 0-9531851-1-7
Earle, P., The Making of the English Middle Class, 1989, Methuen, 0-413-51910-4
Emberton, W., The English Civil War Day By Day, 1997, Grange Books, 1-84013-003-2
Fraser, A., Cromwell, Our Chief of Men, 1973, Panther, 0-586-04206-7
Gaunt, P., A Nation Under Siege, 1991, HMSO, 0-11-70122-X
Gush, G., & Windrow, M., The English Civil War, 1978, PSL, 0-85059-259-3
Harrison, S. et al, Loyal Chester, 1984, CCROHP, 0-9508332-1-5
Hill, C., The World Turned Upside Down, 1984, Peregrine, 0-14-055147-6
Hill, C., A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People, 1988, OUP, 0-19-282691-3
Hill, C.P., Who's Who in Stuart Britain, 1988, Shepheard-Walwyn, 0-85683-075-5
Hutchinson, L., Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, 1908, Everyman, 0-460-01317-3
Kenyon, J.P., Stuart England, 1978,Penguin, 0-14-022076-3
Latham, R. (ed), The Illustrated Pepys, 1978, Bell & Hyman, 0-7135-1750-6
Latham, R. (ed), The Shorter Pepys, 1985, Bell & Hyman, 0-7135-2500-2
Millar, O., Sir Peter Lely 1618-80, 1978, NPG, 0-904017-25-7
Miller, A.C., Sir Richard Grenville of the Civil War, 1979, Phillimore, 0-85033-330-X
Morrill, J. (ed), Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution, 1990, Longman, 0-582-06064-8
Ogg, D., England in the Reign of Charles II, 1984, OUP, 0-19-285142-X
Ollard, R., Clarendon and his Friends, 1988, Oxford, 0-19-282041-9
Peachy, S., The Mechanics of Infantry Combat in the First English Civil War, 1992, Stuart Press, 1-85804-008-6
Raper, A.C., Andover, The Civil War and Interregnum, 1994, AHAS, 0-903755-14-9
Reid, S., All the King's Armies, 1998, Spellmount, 1-86227-028-7
Ridley, J., The Roundheads, 1976, Constable, 0-09-461230-7
Roberts, K., London and Liberty, 1987, Partizan Press, 0-946525-16-1
Roberts, K. & McBride, A., Soldiers of the English Civil War (1): Infantry, 1989, Osprey Elite 25, 0-85045-903-6
Rogers, M., Willian Dobson 1611-1646, 1983, NPG, 0-904017-53-2
Slack, R., Man At War, 1997, R. Slack, 0-9509746-3-3
Tincey, J., Soldiers of the English Civil War (2): Cavalry, 1990, Osprey Elite 27, 0-85045-940-0
Toynbee, M. & Young, P., Cropredy Bridge, 1644, 1970, Roundwood Press, 9-00-09317-X
Tucker, N., North Wales in the Civil War, 1992, Bridge Books, 1-872424-24-4
Webb, J., The Siege of Portsmouth in the Civil War, 1977, PCC, 0-901559-33-4
Wedgewood, C.V., The Kings Peace 1637-1641, 1955, Collins, 0-00-211403-8
Wedgewood, C.V., The Kings War 1641-1647, 1958, Collins, 0-00-211404-6
Wedgewood, C.V., The Trial of Charles I, 1964, Collins, 0-00-211811-4
Young, P., The English Civil War Armies, 1973, Osprey Men At Arms, 0-85045-119-1
Young, P., Civil War England, 1981, Longman, 0-582-50286-1
Young, P., Edgehill 1644, 1995, Windrush Press, 0-900075-34-1

China & South East Asia


Huang, R., 1587 A Year Of No Significance, 1982, Yale, 0-30002-884-9
Peers, C. & Sque, D., Medieval Chinese Armies 1260-1520, 1992, Osprey Men At Arms 251, 1-85532-254-4
Peers, C. & Hook, C., Late Imperial Chinese Armies 1520-1840, 1997, Osprey Men At Arms 307, 1-85532-655-8

Europe General


Anderson, M.S., War and Society in Europe of  the Old Regime 1618-1789, 1988, Fontana, 0-00-686053-2
Braudel, F., The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II
Vol I, 1981, Fontana, 0-00-633407-5
Braudel, F., The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Phillip II
Vol II, 1975, Fontana, 0-00-686134-2
Dodge, T.A., Gustavus Adolphus, Greenhill Books, 1996, 1-85367-234-3
Eltis, D., The Military Revolution in Sixteenth Century Europe, 1998, Taurus, 1-781-860-643521
Hale, J.R., War and Society in Renaissance Europe 1450-1620, 1985, Fontana, 0-00-686017-6
Nosworthy, B., The Anatomy of Victory, 1992, Hippocrene, 0-87052-014-8
Oman, C., A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century, 1987, Greenhill Books,  0-947898-69-7
Trevor-Roper, H., Renaissance Essays, 1985, Fontana, 0-00-686116
Trevor-Roper, H., The Golden Age of Europe, 1987, Thames & Hudson
Wedgewood, C.V., History and Hope, 1987, Collins, 0-00-217960-1

Europe 15th Century


Gravett, C., & McBride, A., German Medieval Armies 1300-1500, 1985, Osprey Men At Arms 166, 0-85045-614-2
Michell, N., Embleton, G.A., Armies of Medieval Burgundy 1364-1477, 1983, Osprey Men At Arms 144, 0-85045-518-9
Prescott, W.H. The Art of War in Spain, 1995, Greenhill Books, 1-85367-193-2
Wise, T., Hook, R. & Walker, W., Medieval Heraldry, 1980, Osprey Men At Arms 99, 0-8545-348-8

Europe 16th Century


Elliot, J.H., Europe Divided 1559-1598, 1968, Fontana, 0-00-6860610-3
Elton, G.R., Reformation Europe 1517-1559, 1963, Fontana, 0-00-686067-2
Martin, C. & Parker, G., The Spanish Armada, 1988, Hamish Hamilton, 0-241-12125-6
Randell, K., Luther and the German Reformation, 1988, Hodder & Stoughton, 0-340-51808-1

Europe 17th Century


Barker, T.M., The Military Intellectual and Battle, 1975, SUNY Press, 0-87395-205-2
Cragg, G., The Church and the Age of Reason 1648-1789, 1960, Penguin, 0-14-013761-0
Grant, C.S., From Pike to Shot 1685-1720, 1986, WRG
Limm, P., The Thirty Years War, 1984, Longman, 0-582-35373-4
Parker, G., Europe in Crisis 1598-1648, 1979, Fontana, 0-00-635670-2
Parker, G., The Thirty Years War, 1987, Routledge, 0-415-02534-6
Polisensky, J.V., The Thirty Years War, 1974, NEL, 450-02188-2
Stoye, J., Europe Unfolding 1648-1688, 1969, Fontana, 0-00-632123-2
Wedgewood, C.V., The Thirty Years War,  1957, Penguin

Europe 18th Century


Chandler, D., Marlborough as Military Commander, 1973, MBS,
Hufton, O., Europe: Privilege and Protest 1730-1789, 1980, Fontana, 0-00-686062-1

France 17th Century


Danskin, N., The French Army in the Thirty Years War, 1995, P&SS
Tapie, V-L., France in the Age of Louis XIII and Richlieu, 1984, CUP, 0-521-26924

General


Black, J., Warfare Renaissance to Revolution 1492-1792, 1996, CUP, 0-521-47033-1
Braudel, F., Civilisation and Capitalism 15th-18th Century Vol 1: The Structures of Everyday Life, 1981, Collins, 0-00-216303-9
Braudel, F., Civilisation and Capitalism 15th-18th Century Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce, 1982, Collins, 0-00-216132-X
Braudel, F., Civilisation and Capitalism 15th-18th Century Vol 3: The Perspective of the World, 1984, Collins, 0-00-216133-8
Duffy, C., Siege Warfare, 1996, RKP, 0-415-1469-6
Kennedy, P., The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, 1988, Unwin Hyman, 0-04-909019-4
McEvedy, C., The Penguin Atlas of Modern History, 1972, Penguin, 0-14-051153-9
Parker, G., The Military Revolution, 1988, CUP, 0-521-37680-7

India


Gascoigne, B., The Great Moghuls, 1971, Cape, 0-224-02474-4
Irvine, W., The Army of the Indian Moghuls, 1996, Pallas Armata
Nicolle, D., & McBride, A., Mughal India 1504-1761, 1993, Osprey Men At Arms 263, 1-85532-3443

Italy


Guicciardini, F., The History of Florence, 1970, Harper,

Literature


Aubrey, J., Brief Lives, 1987, Penguin, 0-14-043079-2
Bunyan, J., Grace Abounding, 1928, Everyman, 0-460-02507-4
Bunyan, J., The Pilgrim's Progress, 1987, Penguin, 0-14-043004-0
Erasmus, Praise of Folly, 1971, Penguin, 0-14-044240-5
Grimmelshausen, J.J.C. Von, Simplicius Simplicissimus, 1986, UPA, 0-8191-5348-6

Mexico


Pohl, J. & McBride, A., Aztec, Mixtec and Zapotec Armies,Osprey Men at Arms 239, 1-85532-159-9
Vaillant, G.C., The Aztecs of Mexico, 1950, Penguin
Wise, T. & McBride, A., The Conquistadors, 1980, Osprey Men At Arms 101, 0-85045-357-1

Netherlands


Geyl, P., The Revolt of the Netherlands 1555-1609, 1988, Cassell, 0-304-32244-0
Geyl, P., The Netherlands in the Seventtenth Century 1609-1648, 1989, Cassell, 0-304-31781-0
Parker, G., The Dutch Revolt, 1985, Pelican, 0-14-022282-0
Schama, S., The Embarrassment of Riches, 1987, Collins, 0-00-217801-X

Ottoman Empire


Murphey, R., Ottoman warfare 1500-1700, 1999, UCL, 1-85728-389-9
Nicolle, D., & McBride, A., Armies of the Ottoman Turks 1300-1774, 1983, Osprey Men At Arms 140, 0-85045-511-1

Poland


Brzezinski, R. & McBride, A., Polish Armies 1569-1696, 1987, Osprey Men At Arms 184, 0-85045-736-X

Samurai


Turnbull, S., The Samurai Sourcebook, Arms & Armour Press, 1998, 1-85-409-371-1
Turnbull, S., Samurai Warfare, Arms & Armour Press, 1997, 1-85-409-432-7

Spain


Kamen, H., Spain 1469-1714, 1983, Longman, 0-582-49226-2
Parker, G., Philip II, 1988, Sphere, 0-7474-0070-9
Stradling, R.A., Philip IV and the Government of Spain, 1621-1665, 1988, CUP, 0-521-32333-9

Spanish Main


Taylor, S.A.G., The Western Design, 1965, IJ/JHS

South America


Hemming, J., The Conquest of the Incas, 1974, Sphere

Sweden


Brzezinski, R., & Hook, R., The Army of Gustavus Adolphus 1 Infantry, 1991, Osprey Men At Arms 235, 0-85045-997-4
Brzezinski, R., & Hook, R., The Army of Gustavus Adolphus 2 Cavalry, 1993, Osprey Men At Arms 262, 1-85532-350-8

Swiss


McCormack, J., One Million Mercenaries, 1993, Leo Cooper, 0-85052-312-5
Miller, D., & Embleton, G.A., The Swiss at War 1300-1500, 1979, Osprey Men At Arms 94, 0-85045-334-8

Wargaming


Bath, T, Setting up a Wargames Campaign, 1986, WRG.
Featherstone, D., Solo Wargaming, 1973, Kaye & Ward, 0-7182-0921
Grant, C.S., Wargame Campaigns, 1995, CSG Publications, 0-9525146-0-5
Grant, C.S. & Asquith, S.A., Scenarios for All Ages, 1996,CSG Publications,  0-952146-5-6
Sides, P., Medieval Battles, 1993, Gosling Press, 1-874351-04-X
Sides, P., Renaissance Battles 1494-1700 Vol 1, 1996, Gosling Press, 1-874351-10-4
Sides, P., Renaissance Battles 1494-1700 Vol 2, 1997, Gosling Press, 1-874351-18-X
Taylor, A., Rules for Wargaming, 1971, Shire, 0-85263127-8
Wesencraft, C.F., With Pike and Musket, 1975, The Elmfield Press, 0-7057-0059-3