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Author Lunde, Henrik O

Title A warrior dynasty : the rise and fall of Sweden as a military superpower, 1611-1721 / Henrik O. Lunde
Published Havertown, PA : Casemate, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (322 pages)
Contents 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 Lützen; 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 AUTHORSAppendix II SELECTED EUROPEAN RULERS 1500-1700; Appendix III LIST OF FIELD MARSHALS MENTIONED; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary 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
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Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Scandinavia.
SUBJECT Sweden -- History, Military -- 17th century
Sweden -- History, Military -- 18th century
Sweden -- History -- Gustav II Adolf, 1611-1632. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131066
Subject Sweden
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781612002439
1612002439