Books in the Soldiers' Lives through History series

This is the story of the evolution of the citizen army throughout Western nations during the nineteenth century and up through World War I.

The next thousand years saw the emergence of iron weapons, the chariot, the standing professional army, military academies, general staffs, military training, permanent arms industries, written texts on tactics, military procurement, logistics systems, conscription, and military pay.

Looks at the men (and a few women) who fought in wars from the fall of the Roman Empire to the end of the fifteenth century. This work includes extensive quotations from the primary sources of the period, including the soldiers' own words. It covers: extensive endnotes; a bibliography of recommended sources; an index; and more.

Two distinguished historians tell the story of the early modern soldier of Europe, a figure often misunderstood, in the period spanning from 1494 to 1789.