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A warrior dynasty : the rise and fall of Sweden as a military superpower, 1611-1721 /
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 S...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Havertown, PA :
Casemate,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (322 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781612002439 1612002439 |