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Introduction

This page lists books pertaining to the Seven Years' War which you can download from various sources on the Web. We have tried to classify them by categories.

As this list grows, the actual page will be subdivided into more specialized pages.

Please feel free to suggest new books to add to this list. To do so, just contact us specifying the URL where a given book is available.

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Art of War

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English Language Publications

Cust, sir Edward, Annals of the wars of the eighteenth century, London: John Murray, 1862 (from Google Books)

Ehwald, colonel von, A Treatise Upon the Duties of Light Troops, translated by A. Maimburg, T. Egerton, 1803 (from Archive.org)

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 (from Google Books)

Kane, general Richard; A system of camp-discipline, military honours, garrison-duty, and other regulations for the land forces, collected by a gentleman of the army. In which are included, Kane's Discipline for a battalion in action. To which is added, General Kane's Campaigns of king William and the duke of Marlborough, London, 1757 (from Google Books)

Prussian army, Regulations for the Prussian cavalry, translated by William Fawcett, London, 1757 (from Google Books)

Tielke, Johann Gottlieb, The field engineer: or, Instructions upon every branch of field, translated by E. Hewgill, London, J. Walter, 1789 (from Google Books)

Vernon, Simon François Gay de, A treatise on the science of war and fortification, vol. II, translated by J. M. O'Connor, New York, J. Seymour, 1817 (from Google Books)

Warnery, (major-general of Hussars in the Prussian army), Remarks on Cavalry, translated from the original, London, 1798 (from Google Books)

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French Language Publications

Bousquet, chevalier du; Instructions militaires sur le service de garnison et de campagne: dictées à messieurs les élèves de l'École royale militaire, Volume 1, Rouen: Besongne, 1769 (from Google Books)

État général des troupes françoises sur pied en janvier 1753 (from Google Books)

Frédéric de Prusse, Œuvres de Frédéric le Grand, Prusse, 1846-1849 (from Digitale Ausgabe der Universitätsbibliothek Trier)

Hennet, Léon; Les milices et les troupes provinciales, Paris: Baudoin, 1834 (from Google Books)

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)

Rivière, Henri; La marine Française sous le règne de Louis XV, Paris: Le Normant, 1859 (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)

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)

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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)

Gfrörer, August Friedrich; J. B. Weiss; Geschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, Vol. 3 - Maria Theresia dis grosse Kaiserin-Königin, Schaffhausen, 1862 (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)

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Campaigns

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English Language Publications

Almon, John, An impartial history of the late war, London, 1763 (from Google Books)

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)

Hume, David; T. Smollett and W. Jones; The History of England, London: Thomas Tegg, 1828

  • Vol 16 (covering the SYW and Kleinkrieg actions) (from Google Books)

Knowles, sir Bartholomew Lees, Minden and the Seven Years' War, London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1914 (from Archive.org)

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 (from Google Books)

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

Ramsay, David; Military memoirs of Great Britain: or, A history of the war, 1755-1763, Edinburgh, 1779 (from Google Books)

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) 1758 Prusssian-Russian Zorndorf Campaign – Notes: among other it includes a vivid and authentic portrait of the Russian Army and excellent maps & orbats.

Watts, William; Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, Anno. Dom. 1757, London: A. Millar, 1760 (from Google Books)

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French Language Publications

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) French 1760 & Winter 1761 Campaign – Notes: includes a number of great sketches/maps (Korbach, Kloster Kamp and others)

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)


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 1757 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 1758 Campaign

Jomini, Antoine Henri, Histoire critique et militaire des guerres de Frédéric II: comparées au système moderne, Bruxelles, 1842

Jomini, Antoine Henri, Traité des grandes opérations militaires, Paris, 1811 (all volumes from Google Books)

Pajol, Le comte, Les guerres sous Louis XV

Rambaud, Alfred; Henri Ganier; Russes et Prussiens: Guerre de Sept Ans, 1895 (from Google Books, downloadable only from the U.S.)

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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 (from Google Books)

Grosser Generalstab, Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen., Berlin, 1902 (from Google Books via Archive.org)

Grosser Generalstab, Geschichte des siebenjährigen Krieges: In einer Reihe von Vorlesungen, mit..., Berlin, 1824-1847 (from Google Books)

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)

Klutschak, Franz; [Die Kriegsjahre Prags in der Mitte des vorigen Jahrhunderts: drei Episoden aus dem österreichischen Erbfolge- und Siebenjährigen Kriege], Prague, 1866 (from Google Books)

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 (from Google Books)

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)

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)

Westphalen, C. H. P., Geschichte der Feldzüge des Herzogs Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Lüneberg(from Google Books)

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Dictionnaries

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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)

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French Language Publications

Romme, Charles; Dictionnaire de la marine françoise: avec figures, La Rochelle, 1792 (from Google Books)

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German Language Publications

Bodart, Gaston; Militär-historisches kreigs-lexikon, (1618-1905), Stern, 1908 (from Archive.org) seems to be downloadable only in the U.S.

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Memoires and Biographies

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English Language Publications

Agar-Ellis, George, Dover (1st baron); The life of Frederick II, King of Prussia, vol. 2, New York: Harper & Bros, 1836 (from Google Books)

Barrow, sir John; The life of George, Lord Anson: admiral of the fleet, vice-admiral of Great Britain, London: John Murray, 1839 (from Google Books)

Blumenthal, Luise Johanne L. von; The life of general de Zieten, tr. by B. Beresford, Berlin, 1803 (all from Google Books)

Carlyle, Thomas, History of Friedrich II of Prussia (all volumes from Project Gutenberg)

Catt, Henri de, Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, London : Constable and Company Ltd., 1916

Challice; The Secret History of the Court of France under Louis XV: Edited, from rare and unpublished documents, Vol. 2, London: Hurst & Blackett, 1861 (from Google Books)

Daun, Leopold Joseph Maria von; Memoirs of Field Marshal Leopold Count Daun : translated from a French manuscript and interspersed with many curious anecdotes : among which is a full and particular account of Field Marshal Keith (1757), translated by And. Henderson, London, 1757

Fitzmaurice, Edmond; Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick: An Historical Study, 1735-1806, London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co, 1901

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)

Lawley, Robert Neville, General Seydlitz, a military biography, London: Clowes & Sons, 1852 (from Google Books)

Malleson, George Bruce; Loudon: a sketch of the military life of Gideon Ernest, Freiherr von Loudon, London: Chapman and Hall, 1884 (from Archive.org)

Manners, Walter Evelyn; Some accounts of the military, political, and social life of the Right Hon. John Manners, marquis of Granby, London: Macmillan & Co., 1899 (from Archive.org)

Ramsay, David; The life of George Washington, Baltimore: Jewett & Cushing, 1832 (from Google Books)

Rolt, Richard; Historical memoirs of His late Royal Highness William-Augustus, duke of Cumberland, London: T. Waller, 1767 (from Google Books)

Thiébault, Dieudonné; Original Anecdotes of Frederick the Great, Philadelphia, 1806 (all from Google Books)

Townshend, C. V. F.; The military life of Field-Marshal George first marquess Townshend, London: John Murray, 1901 (from Archive.org)

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French Language Publications

Barbier, Edmond Jean F.; Journal historique et anecdotique du règne de Louis XV, Vol. 4 – 1754-1763, Paris: Renouard, 1856 (from Google Books)

Barre Duparcq, Nicolas Édouard de La, Études historiques et militaires sur la Prusse, Ch. Tanera, Paris, 1854 (from Google Books)

Boutaric, M.E.; Correspondance secrète inédite de Louis XV sur la politique étrangère avec le Comte de Broglie, Tercier, etc, Vol. 2, Paris: Plon, 1866 (from Google Books)

Broglie, Duc de; Le secret du roi: Correspondance secrète de Louis XV avec ses agents diplomatiques 1752-1774, Ch. Tanera, Paris, 1854 (from Google Books)

Chevrier, François Antoine M. de; La vie politique et militaire de M. le maréchal duc de Bell'Isle: prince de l'empire, ministre d'etat de S.M.T.C., La Haye, 1762 (from Google Books)

Dugas de Bois Saint-Just, Jean Louis Marie, Paris, Versailles et les provinces, au 18e siècle: Anecdotes sur la vie privée de plusieurs ministres, évêques, magistrats célèbres, hommes de lettres et autres personnages connus sous le règnes de Louis XV et de Louis XVI, Vol. 1, Paris: Le Normant, 1809 (from Google Books)

Dussieux, Louis; Mémoires du Duc de Luynes sur la cour de Louis XV: (1735 - 1758), Vol. 14 – 1755-56, Paris: Firmin Didot, 1864 (from Google Books)

Laffrey, Arnoux; Siècle de Louis XV Vol. 2, Paris: Gueffrier, 1797

Parnes, Roger de; Chroniques du XVIIIe siècle: Anecdotes secrètes du règnes de Louis XV, Paris: Rouveyre et Blond, 1882 (from Google Books)

Valori, comte H. de; Mémoires des négociations du marquis de Valori, ambassadeur de France à la cour de Berlin, Vol. 1, Paris: Didot, 1820 (from Google Books)

Voyer (marquis d'Argenson), René-Louis de; Mémoires du marquis d'Argenson, ministre sous Louis XV: avec une notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de l'auteur, Paris: Baudoin Frères, 1825 (from Google Books)

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German Language Publications

Blumenthal, Louise Johanne Leopoldine von Platen v.; Lebensbeschreibung Hans Joachims von Zieten, königlich-preussischen Generals der Kavallerie, Ritters des schwarzen Adlerordens, Chefs des Regiments der königlichen Leibhusaren und Erbherrn auf Wustrau, Berlin 1797 (from Google Books)

Catt, Henri de, Gespräche Friedrichs des Grossen mit Henri de Catt (1885), Leipzig : F. W. Grunow, 1885 (from Archive.org)

Retzow, Friedrich August von; Charakteristik der wichtigsten Ereignisse des siebenjährigen Krieges, Vol. 1, Berlin, 1804 (from Google Books)

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References

Acknowledgements

Christian Rogge, Pascal Stalder and Adam Woolhead for their important contributions to this list of eBooks.

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