Fontana History of European War and Society

Ian Beckett described the series as a synthesis made possible by a flourishing of new, more specialised, studies, which had begun to appear after the Second World War, but took the view that Victor Kiernan's Marxist treatment of empire had not dated well.^[2] John Rigby Hale's volume, on the other hand, was described as a "model of historical writing" by Beckett,^[2] as part of a post-war movement to rescue the history of warfare from the memoirs of generals and from museum experts writing about armour and weapons.^[3]

• Geoffrey Best, War and Society in Revolutionary Europe, 1770–1870. 1982
• V. G. Kiernan, European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815–1960. 1982
• Brian Bond, War and Society in Europe, 1870–1970. 1983
• J. R. Hale, War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450–1620. 1985 (2nd revised edition, Sutton, 1998)
• M. S. Anderson, War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime, 1618–1789. 1988