Tuesday 12 November 2019

Some useful WSS books

It appears the WSS is becoming popular - going by the hits on this page. Here's a few books to get started on the period in the English language. Any other books you would recommend to start you off?


5 comments:

Anton Ryzbak said...

Despite the idiotic title "Marlborough's Other Army" from Helion

marinergrim said...

Charles S Grants "Armies & Uniforms" book from Partizan Press - used to be a two volume now combined into a single publication.
"Great & Glorious Days" by Falkner.

Above two are excellent introductions into the period and the variety of uniforms.

Pierre le Poilu said...

John A Lynn's book, "The Wars of Louis XIV", the final third covers the WSS.

Then three books by James Falkner, "Guide to Marlborough's Battlefields" covers his main four battles. Also "Marlborough's Sieges", a book that I have dipped into many times. The third book is Falkner's biography of Marshal Vauban, a man who did not directly participate in the WSS but was a great influence on it.

nundanket said...

Weapons and Equipment of the Marlborough Wars by A Kemp.

Good on daily campaign operations as well as the equipment.

Steve-the-Wargamer said...

My recommendations here: https://steve-the-wargamer.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html#Books