The Dutch Revolt

Nice, compact overview, treating the underlying political and social issues as well as the history of the military campaigns. Makes it clear that there was a lot more going on than a simple matter of Catholics vs. Protestants, but it does also give a strong impression that the author's sympathies lie mostly with the Catholic side.

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.

Still the starting point in English for any study of this very, very important conflict.

Meesterlijke analyse van de Nederlandse opstanden die tot de losmaking van Spanje leidden, tussen 1565-1609.