Bert Hall for John Hopkins Bert Hall! You cannot have a historian called Bert Hall, can you, he sounds like a Harry Hill character? Well in America you can have anything you want so off we go into an oddly inconclusive book. There is a lot of technical stuff on early gunpowder (as Bert starts his history before what most of us would think of as the Renaissance). His thoughts on pistol-armed cavalry and the Military Revolution are interesting but I am not sure I came to understand his conclusions as well as, say, those of David Eltis. The problem is that it is easier to chop Roberts' or Parker's arguments into pieces than produce a holistic counter-argument. Valuable for putting the spotlight on a period long before the Swedish Hero King appeared. More Old Duffer's Book Corner (book reviews) Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe The End of The Bronze Age The Grand Strategy of Philip II War in The Early Modern World (1450-1815) European And Native American Warfare 1675-1615 The Great War Generals On The Western Front 1914-18 The Art of War Of Revolutionary France 1789-1802 Pallas Armata Back to Perfidious Albion #98 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1999 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com