Author: James Falkner

Sebastien Le Prestre, Marshal Vauban, was one of the greatest military engineers of all time. His complex, highly sophisticated fortress designs, h...

The Battle of Fontenoy marked a turning point in the War of the Austrian Succession, yet it has rarely been analysed in depth and the Europe-wide c...

Many books have been written about the 1st Duke of Marlborough's famous victories, but none of the previous studies has really concentrated on how ...

Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carignan (1663-1736), French born of an Italian mother, was destined for the church, but fled France as a young man and chos...

The War of the Spanish Succession, fought between 1701 and 1714 to decide who should inherit the Spanish throne, was a conflict on an unprecedented...

Blenheim has gone down in history as one of the turning points of the War of the Spanish Succession and some would say in the history of conflict ...