Italy 1636: Cemetery of Armies

by Gregory Hanlon

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Italy 1636 uses the French and Savoyard invasion of Spanish Lombardy in 1636 to explore the operation of early modern armies through a neo-Darwinian lens, uncovering the universal features of human behaviour and psychology as they relate to violence and war.

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After a somewhat prolix start, this turned out to be a very good examination of the Bourbon-Habsburg contest of the time, at a point when Madrid (and their Italian clients) were capable of holding their own in a fair fight.

Apart from that, Hamlin has discovered the (mostly) Anglo-American literature of the behavior of men in battle, and does an excellent job of working those insights into this study.

All in all well worth reading. (

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