“Brent Nosworthy is one of the handful of military historians who understand the business of battles, how they are fought at unit level, and how doctrine, training, and weaponry affect the outcomes of fighting at that of the unit level. His work is must reading for anyone wishing to understand the technique of war.”
– Lieutenant Colonel Roger Cirillo (Ph.D.), US Army {Retired}, Institute of Land Warfare, Director, Book Program, Association of the US Army.
How were early gunpowder battles really fought, and how did the art of war evolve during these several hundred years? Brent Nosworthy spent the past 50 years of unprecedented investigative exploration trying to answer these questions. His remarkable career includes three highly-acclaimed books:
The Anatomy of Victory: Battle Tactics 1689-1763 (1990)
Battle Tactics of Napoleon and His Enemies (1995)
The Bloody Crucible of Courage: Fighting Methods and Combat Experience of the Civil War (2003)
Nosworthy continues his intensive, primary resource-rich, analytical odyssey to produce – with Lombardy Studios – a next level of extraordinary publications. These books will chronicle and illuminate for the modern reader how various fighting methods were developed, why they were used, and the dynamics that caused them to be adopted in the first place.
His works have been studied and cited by professionals in international military establishments as well as academics, wargamers, tabletop miniaturists, and, of course, arm-chair generals!
Nosworthy’s newest series of studies include the entire epoch of early gunpowder from the arquebus to the musket. Nosworthy’s Encyclopedia of European & American Battle Tactics: 1453-1867 is a massive body of work organized into 4 self-contained series of hardcover illustrated manuscripts –
Series 1: The Renaissance & Early Modern Period: 1453-1637
All of the major European armies of this era are presented in individual volumes: France, Spain, England, the Italian States, and the Holy Roman Empire. It also provides comprehensive tomes on each of the Hungarian, Polish-Lithuanian and Muscovite armies – and an even more extensive treatment of the Ottoman army and the Tatars. This series describes the evolution of fighting methods from the Swiss/Spanish model to that developed by the Dutch during the early 16th century.
Series 2: Classical Linear Warfare: 1637-1789
This series of volumes is based upon a greatly expanded version of Nosworthy’s The Anatomy of Victory. The time period is extended, and the topics covered greatly increased. This series also includes warfare in North America.
Series 3: The Napoleonic Era: 1789-1815
Based upon an expanded version of Battle Tactics of Napoleon and His Enemies, it includes the War of 1812, plus additional armies covered in detail.
Series 4: The Nineteenth Century 1815-1867
Based upon an expanded version of The Bloody Crucible of Courage, it covers European armies up to the Italian War of 1859, the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, plus colonial warfare in Africa.
