Second Hand French Military History, 1661–1799
A Guide to the Literature
Author : Steven T. Ross
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Condition
Mostly in good condition.
Original beige cloth hardback with red lettering and no dust jacket. The covers show general rubbing, surface soiling, discolouration and scattered marks, with minor bumping and wear to the corners and spine ends.
A former library shelf label remains attached to the lower spine. Additional adhesive residue and a removed label are present on the rear board. The title page bears an embossed institutional library stamp and classification markings. There is a large area of paper loss, adhesive staining and label residue on the rear pastedown.
The binding appears secure and the pages remain legible and generally clean, with occasional age-related marks. No highlighting or substantive handwritten annotations are visible.
Details
General - Pages : 305 | Images : No illustrations. Primarily bibliographical text and indexes. | Publisher : Garland Publishing, Inc. | Place of Publication : London, UK | Language : English
Hardback - Year of Publication : 1984 | Edition : First edition | Size : 224mm x 146mm | ISBN : 0824090624
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An extensive bibliographical guide to French military history from the establishment of Louis XIV’s standing army through the French Revolution and the end of the eighteenth century.
Steven T. Ross surveys the principal primary and secondary sources relating to the French armed forces between 1661 and 1799. The book is divided into sections covering general bibliographies, journals, military histories and the various service arms, followed by detailed coverage of the army of the Ancien Régime and the Revolutionary period.
Entries encompass the organisation and structure of the Royal Army, military regulations and manuals, memoirs, biographies, campaign studies and accounts of individual battles. The Revolutionary section examines the impact of political upheaval upon the armed forces and provides references to regulations, memoirs, biographies, campaigns and battles from 1789 to 1799.
The volume concludes with an extensive author index. Published by Garland in 1984, it remains a useful reference source for researchers studying the French Army, the wars of Louis XIV and Louis XV, the Seven Years’ War and the French Revolutionary Wars. Bibliographic catalogues record the work as a 305-page English-language reference volume covering French military history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
