Название: This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485-1746
Автор: Charles Carlton
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300139136
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 336
Размер: 7,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often—and most bloodily—against each other.