The Dawn of Modern Warfare: History of the Art of War, Volume IV

In this last volume of his classic history of the art of war, Hans Delbrück considers new developments: the use of gunpowder, the invention of firearms, and the employment of noisy large cannon that shot stone and, later, iron balls. After reviewing the establishment of a European infantry, Delbrück discusses the transformation of loose confederations of knights into cavalry (well developed by the last Huguenot wars), the organization of fighting mercenaries (followed by wives and prostitutes), and the changing of mercenary bands into standing armies.

The Dawn of Modern Warfare is colored by larger-than-life personalities: Niccolo Machiavelli, the theoretician of the new art of war; Maurice of Orange, renovator of the art of drill and father of military discipline; Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, perfecter of infantry tactics; Oliver Cromwell of England, reorganizer of a citizen militia into a professional army; and Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte, military strategists par excellence.

• Medieval Warfare: History of the Art of War, Volume III
• Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I
• History of the Art of War, Vol. 2: The Barbarian Invasions
• Delbrück's Modern Military History
• Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice (PSI Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era)
• The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius (Viking Portable Library)
• Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America (War/Society/Culture)
• Warfare and Culture in World History
• A Century of American Historiography
• The Military Revolution Debate: Readings On The Military Transformation Of Early Modern Europe (History and Warfare)