Early Modern Systems of Command: Queen Anne’s Generals, Staff Officers and the Direction of Allied Warfare in the Low Countries and Germany, 1702-1711

Early Modern Systems of Command explores the lives these individuals led on campaign and the nature of the apparatus of command they formed. Drawing upon a wealth of primary material it examines topics as diverse as corruption, logistics, military justice and intelligence-gathering. AUTHOR: Stewart Stansfield has enjoyed a peripatetic academic history. A youthful interest in a career in illustration and graphic design and a stint in an extreme metal band was stymied by a more sensible and remunerative move into geology. He completed his undergraduate degree at Manchester before studying for a PhD in volcanology. 13 colour and b/w illustrations, 2 maps, 9 tables