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Geoffrey Parker is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books. He is Andreas Dorpelan Professor of History at Ohio State University. (Bowker Author Biography)

Works by Geoffrey Parker

The Thirty Years' War (1984) 287 copies
Compact History of the World (1995) 200 copies
Philip II (1900) — Author — 190 copies
The Spanish Armada (1975) 174 copies
Europe in Crisis 1589-1648 (1979) 163 copies
The Dutch Revolt (1977) 159 copies
The Reader's Companion to Military History (1996) — Editor — 134 copies

Associated Works

What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (2001) — Contributor — 1,024 copies
The Times Atlas of World History (1978) — Editor, some editions — 805 copies
A History of Scotland (1964) — Editor, some editions — 621 copies
I Wish I'd Been There, Book Two: European History (2008) — Contributor — 152 copies
Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588 (2022) — Author, some editions — 51 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1988 (1988) — Author "Why the Armada Failed" and Co-Author "If the Armada Had Landed" — 20 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1992 (1992) — Author "Joint Stock and Gunshot: European Conquest and Trade, 1500 to 1800" — 17 copies
The Great War and the Twentieth Century (2000) — Editor — 15 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1989 (1989) — Author "Taking Up the Gun" — 15 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1993 (1993) — Author "The Etiquette of Atrocity" and "Flooding 'em Back to the Stone Age?" — 14 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Winter 1996 (1995) — Author "What is the Western Way of War?" and "Significant Western Sieges: Geoffrey Parker's Choices" — 14 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 1998 (1998) — Author "The Armada Revisited," "The Man Who Said "I Told You So"" and "The Triumph of the Armada" — 14 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1998 (1998) — Author "Philip II, Knowledge and Power" — 13 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2006 (2006) — Author "The Spanish Armada Almost Surrendered" — 8 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 2005 (2005) — Author "Arms and Men: Inventing Volley Fire" — 7 copies
Poder y sociedad en la España de los Austrias (1982) — Contributor — 2 copies
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Spring 2011 (2011) — Author "The War List" — 2 copies

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This is the book, or at least one of the books, I should have read before tackling Parker's better known The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road - a concise narrative history of the revolt (or rather revolts) of the Netherlands to the truce of 1609.
 
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AndreasJ | 3 other reviews | Oct 4, 2023 |
This is deservedly a classic.

A tip, though, for those who, like me, could use a refresher on the narrative history before tackling the logistical meat of Parker's study: read the conclusion first, as it does contain a brief account of the course of the wars fought by the Army of Flanders during the period covered.
 
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