Exercise of Arms: Warfare in the Netherlands, 1568-1648

The great European conflict known as the Thirty Years War was only the final phase of a war in the Netherlands which was to last 80 years. This volume brings together papers by 11 military historians from the Netherlands who discuss the processes by which the Dutch organized and financed the military apparatus which was eventually to defeat the leading land and maritime power of their day, and to maintain the position of Holland as a world power until well into the 18th century.