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Introduction
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Art of War
English Language Publications
Fortescue, John William, A history of the British army, Vol. II, MacMillan, London, 1899 (from Archive.org)
Grose, Francis; Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army, Vol. II, T. Egerton & G. Kearsley, London, 1801
Prussian army, Regulations for the Prussian cavalry, translated by William Fawcett, London, 1757 (from Google Books)
Warnery, (major-general of Hussars in the Prussian army), Remarks on Cavalry, translated from the original, London, 1798 (from Google Books)
French Language Publications
Frédéric de Prusse, Œuvres de Frédéric le Grand, Prusse, 1846-1849 (from Digitale Ausgabe der Universitätsbibliothek Trier)
Héricourt, Nicolas d', Élémens de l'art militaire (all volumes from Google Books)
Le Blond, Guillaume; Charles Antoine Jombert; Traité de l'artillerie ou des armes et machines en usage à la guerre, depuis l'invention de la poudre, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1743 (from Google Books)
Saxe, Maurice de, Mes Rêveries (all volumes from Gallica)
Susane, Louis, Histoire de l'ancienne infanterie française, J. Corréard, Paris, 1849-1856 (all from Google Books)
- Tome 1
- Tome 2
- Tome 3
- Tome 4
- Tome 5
- Tome 6
- Tome 7
- Tome 8
- Atlas de 151 planches 151 colour plates of the French infantry before 1789
Susane, Louis, Histoire de l'artillerie française, J. Hetzel et Cie, Paris, 1874 (Google Books)
Susane, Louis, Histoire de la cavalerie française, J. Hetzel et Cie, Paris, 1874 (all from Google Books)
Troude, O.; Batailles navales de la France, Vol. 1, P. Levot. Paris, 1867 (from Google Books)
German Language Publications
Dolleczek, Anton; Geschichte der Oesterreichischen Artillerie, Vienna, 1887 (from Austrian Literature Online)
Düring, G. W. v.; Geschichte des Schaumburg-lippe-bückeburgischen Karabinier- und Jäger-korps, Berlin: E.S. Mittler, 1828 (from Google Books)
Scharnhorst, G. J. D. v.; Militairisches Taschenbuch, zum Gebrauch im Felde, Hannover, 1793 (from Google Books)
Reglement vor die Königl. Preussische Infanterie , Berlin, 1750 (from Google Books via Archive.org)
Struensee, Carl August; Anfangsgründe der Artillerie, D. Siegert, Leipzig and Liegnitz, 1760 (from Google Books)
Thürheim, A. Graf; Gedenkblätter aus der Kriegsgeschichte der K.k. Oesterreichischen Armee, Vol. II (cavalry, artillery, engineers, Grenz, light troops), Buchhandlung für militär-literatur, Vienna, 1880 (from Google Books)
Campaigns
English Language Publications
Archenholz, J. W., The History of the Seven Years War in Germany, translated by F. A. Catty (from Google Books)
Dundas, colonel David, Principles of Military Movements, chiefly applied to Infantry. Illustrated by Manoeuvres of the Prussian Troops, and an Outline of the British Campaigns in Germany during the War of 1757 (to 1762), London, 1788 (from Google Books)
Lloyd, Henry, The History of the Late War in Germany: Between the King of Prussia, and the Empress of Germany and her Allies, Hooper London, 1781 (all volumes from Google Books)
Officer who served in the British forces (probably Hotham), The operations of the allied army: under the command of His Serene Highness Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswic and Luneberg, during the greatest part of six campaigns, beginning in the year 1757, and ending in the year 1762, T. Jefferys, London, 1764
Parkman, Francis, Montcalm and Wolfe (from Project Gutenberg)
- also available at Nova Scotia's Electric Gleaner, this version includes internal navigation links that enable direct linking to individual chapters
1758 Prusssian-Russian Zorndorf Campaign – Notes: among other it includes a vivid and authentic portrait of the Russian Army and excellent maps & orbats.
- Tielke, J. G., An Account of some the most remarkable events of the War between the Prussians, Austrians, and Russians from 1756 to 1763; and a Treatise on several branches of the Military Art, with Plans and Maps, translated from the second edition of the German Original by Captain C. Craufurd & Captain R. Craufurd, Vol. 2, London, 1788 (from Google Books)
French Language Publications
Bourcet, Pierre Joseph, Mémoires historiques sur la guerre que les Français ont soutenu en Allemagne depuis 1757 jusqu'en 1762 - Tome 1 (from Google Books)
Jomini, Antoine Henri, Histoire critique et militaire des guerres de Frédéric II: comparées au système moderne, Bruxelles, 1842
- Tome 1 (including the three first volumes of the Paris edition) (from Google Books)
Jomini, Antoine Henri, Traité des grandes opérations militaires, Paris, 1811 (all volumes from Google Books)
Pajol, Le comte, Les guerres sous Louis XV
- Tome 1 (1715-1739) (from Google Books)
- Tome 2 (1740-1748) - Allemagne (from Google Books)
- Tome 3 (1740-1748) - Italie - Flandre (from Google Books)
- Tome 4 (1749-1759) (from Google Books)
- Tome 5 (1759-1774) (from Google Books)
- Tome 6 (various other campaigns: Minorca, Corsica, Portugal, Canada, India... (from Google Books)
- Tome 7 (history of each unit of the French army during the reign of Louis XV) (from Google Books via Archive.org)
French 1757 Campaign
- Chevrier, Antoine, Histoire de la Campagne de Mille Sept Cent Cinquante Sept, sur le Bas-Rhin, dans l’Électorat d’Hanovre et autres pais conquis, Frankfurt, 1757 (from Google Books)
French 1758 Campaign
- Chevrier, Antoine, Histoire de la Campagne de 1758 - Contenant tout ce qui s'est passé d'intéressant dans l'Electorat de Hanovre, la Principauté d'Emden, le Landgraviat de Cassel, la Westphalie, Bas-Rhin & le Comté de Hanau. Depuis le commencement de cette année jusqu'à la fin du mois de Juillet, Frankfurt, 1758 (from Google Books)
French 1760 & Winter 1761 Campaign – Notes: includes a number of great sketches/maps (Korbach, Kloster Kamp and others)
- Anonymous officer, Journal de la Campagne de M.DCC.LX. (1760). Entre l’Armée du Roi aux ordres de Monseigneur le Maréchal Duc de Broglie; Et celle des Alliés, commandée par S.A.S. Mgr. le Prince Ferdinand de Brunswich, où l’on a joint les Opérations des deux Armées aux mois de Février & Mars M.DCC.LXI, par M* L* R* D* B*, Officier de Dragons & Aide-de-Camp de M. le Marquis de B* (Béthune, lieutenant-général, commandant la cavalerie en 1760), Frankfurt, 1761 (from Google Books)
German Language Publications
Archenholz, J. W., Geschichte des siebenjährigen Krieges in Deutchland, Berlin, 1793 (from Google Books via Archive.org)
Brabant, Artur, Das Heilige Römische Reich teutscher Nation im Kampf mit Friedrich dem Grossen – vol. 1 – 1757, Berlin: Paetel, 1904 (from Google Books via Archive.org)
Decker, Carl von, Die Schlachten und Hauptgefechte des siebenjährigen Krieges mit vorherrschender Bezugnahme auf den Gebrauch der Artillerie, in Verbindung mit den beiden andern Hauptwaffen der Armee, Berlin, 1837 (from Google Books)
Donnersmarck, Victor Amadaeus Henckel von, Karl Zabeler, Militaerischer Nachlass, Violet, Leipzig, 1858
Grosser Generalstab, Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen., Berlin, 1902 (from Google Books via Archive.org)
- Part 3 – Der Siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763
- Vol. 1 - Pirna und Lobositz
- Vol. 2 (no source found yet)
- Vol. 3 - Kolin
- Vol. 4 - Gross-Jägersdorf und Breslau
- Vol. 5 - Hastenbeck und Rossbach
Grosser Generalstab, Geschichte des siebenjährigen Krieges: In einer Reihe von Vorlesungen, mit..., Berlin, 1824-1847 (from Google Books)
- Vol. 1 - Campaigns of 1756-57
- Vol. 2 - Campaign of 1758
- Vol. 3 - Campaign of 1759
- Vol. 4 - Campaign of 1760
- Vol. 5 - Campaign of 1761 (First Part)
- Vol. 5 - Campaign of 1761 (Second Part)
- Vol. 6 - Campaign of 1762 and the Peace of 1763 (First Part)
- Vol. 6 - Campaign of 1762 and the Peace of 1763 (Second Part)
Huschberg, J. F. (by Heinrich Wuttke); Die Drei Kriegsjahre 1756, 1757, 1758 in Deutchland, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrich, 1856 (from Google Books via Archive.org)
Lehmann, Max; Friedrich der Grosse und der Ursprung des siebenjährigne Krieges, Leipzig, 1894 (from Google Books via Archive.org)
Meynert, Dr. Hermann, Geschichte der k.k. österreichischen Armee, ihrer Heranbildung und Organisation, so wie ihrer Schiksale, Thaten und Feldzüge, von der frühesten bis auf die jetzige Zeit, Wien: C. Gerold und Sohn, 1857 (from Google Books)
Osten, Wilhelm August v. d.; Feldzüge der alliirten Armee in den Jahren 1757 bis 1762 nach dem Tagebuche des Generaladjutanten, nachmaligen Feldmarschalls von Reden, (3 volumes concatenated into a single file), B.G. Hoffmann, Hamburg, 1805
Ranke, Leopold v.; Der Ursprung des Siebenjährigen Krieges, Leipzig, 1871 (from Google Books via Archive.org)
Schaefer , Arnold; Geschichte des siebenjährigen Krieges, Berlin, 1867-1874 (from Google Books via Archive.org)
- Vol. 1 – From the outbreak of the War to Leuthen
- Vol. 2 Part 1 – Form 1758 to the opening of the campaign of 1760
- Edition 1874 Vol. 2 Part 2 – The last 3 years of the war
Schulenburg, Friedrich Albrecht; Einige neue Actenstücke über die Veranlassung des siebenjährigen Krieges und der in Folge desselben enstandenen Allianzen, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1841 (from Google Books via Archive.org)
St., E. v., Zum Säcular-Gedächtniss von 1758 – Der Feldzug in Mähren, Frankfurt am Main: J.D. Sauerländer, 1858 (from Google Books via Archive.org)
Sulicki, Karl v., Der Siebenjährige Krieg in Pommern und in den benachbarten Marken: Studie des Detaschements und des kleines Krieges, Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn, Berlin, 1867 (from Google Books)
Tempelhof, Georg Friedrich von, Geschichte des siebenjährigen Krieges in Deutschland zwischen dem Könige von Preussen und der Kaiserin Königin mit ihren Alliirten als eine Fortsetzung der Geschichte Lloyd, J. F. Unger, Berlin, 1783-1801 (from Google Books)
Thielen, Maximilian F., Der siebenjährige Krieg: Vom Jahre 1756 bis 1762, Wallishausser, Wien, 1836 (from Google Books)
Tielke, Johann Gottlieb, Beytraege zur Kriegs-kunst und geschichte des krieges von 1756 bis 1775 (from Google Books)
- Part 1 not found yet
- Part 2 - Der Feldzug der Kayserlich Russischen und Königlich Preussischen Völker im Jahre 1758,
- Part 3 - Der Feldzug der Kayserlich Russischen und Königlich Preussischen Völker im Jahre 1761, Freyberg, 1778
- Part 4 - Die Drey Belagerungen und Loudonsche Ersteigung der Festung Schweidnitz in den Feldzügen von 1757 bis 1762, Freyberg, 1781
- Part 5 - Der Feldzug des Herzogs von Würtemberg und Generalleutnamts von Platen in Pommern im Jahre 1761, Freyberg, 1784
- Part 6 - Fortsetzung der Untersuchung der Feldbesestigungs Kunst, Freyberg, 1786
Westphalen, C. H. P., Geschichte der Feldzüge des Herzogs Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Lüneberg(from Google Books)
Dictionnaries
English Language Publications
Campbell, E. S. Norman, A Dictionary of the Military Science (from Google Books)
Duane, William, A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several Systems of Discipline of Different Kinds of Troops (from Google Books)
Duckett, George Floyd, Technological military dictionary. German-English-French (from Google Books)
Memoires and Biographies
English Language Publications
Carlyle, Thomas, History of Friedrich II of Prussia (all volumes from Project Gutenberg)
- Vol. 1 - Birth and parentage. 1712
- Vol. 2 - Of Brandenburg and the Hohenzollerns. 928-1417
- Vol. 3 - The Hohenzollerns in Brandenburg. 1412-1718
- Vol. 4 - Friedrich's apprenticeship, first stage. 1713-1728
- Vol. 5 - Double-marriage project, and what element it fell into. 1723-1726
- Vol. 6 - Double-marriage project, and Crown-Prince, going adrift under the storm-winds. 1727-30
- Vol. 7 - Fearful shipwreck of the double-marriage project. February-November, 1730
- Vol. 8 - Crown-Prince retrieved: life at Custrin. November, 1730-February, 1732
- Vol. 9 - Last stage of Friedrich's apprenticeship: life in Ruppin. 1732-1736
- Vol. 10 - At Reinsberg. 1736-1740
- Vol. 11 - Friedrich takes the reins in hand. June-December, 1740
- Vol. 12 - First Silesian War, awakening a general European War. December, 1740-May, 1741
- Vol. 13 - First Silesian War, leaving the general European one ablaze all round, gets ended. May, 1741-July, 1742
- Vol. 14 - The surrounding European War does not end. August, 1742-July, 1744
- Vol. 15 - Second Silesian War, important episode in the general European one. 15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745
- Vol. 16 - The ten years of peace. 1746-1756
- Vol. 17 - The Seven Years War: First Campaign. 1756-1757
- Vol. 18 - Seven Years War rises to a height. 1757-1759
- Vol. 19 - Friedrich like to be overwhelmed in the Seven Years War. 1759-1760
- Vol. 20 - Friedrich is not to be overwhelmed: The Seven Years' War gradually ends. April 25 1760 - February 15 1763
- Vol. 21
- Appendix
Henty, G. A.; With Clive in India (from Project Gutenberg)
Henty, G. A.; With Frederick the Great: A Story of The Seven Years' War, 1898 (from Plain Label Books and Google Books)
Kugler Franz, Edward Aubrey Moriarty, Adolph Menzel; The Pictorial History of Germany: During the Reign of Frederick the Great: Comprehending a Complete History of the Silesian Campaigns, and the Seven Years War, H.G. Bohn, London, 1845 (from Google Books) (N.B.: contains wonderful black and white illustrations made by Adolph Menzel)
French Language Publications
Barre Duparcq, Nicolas Édouard de La, Études historiques et militaires sur la Prusse, Ch. Tanera, Paris, 1854 (from Google Books)
