Bøker av Gregory (Professor of European History Hanlon

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, emphasizing the universal features of human behaviour and psychology as they relate to violence and war.

Relates the misadventure of a minor Italian state whose prince led it into a major war against the principal European power of the time