Author Daniel Defoe, a prolific writer, is best known for his Robinson Crusoe. This work is a fictional account of the life of a soldier become officer in the 17th century. The protagonist is an English Man of Quality (heir to an estate) that takes on military command as a matter of course and rises

A near 9 hour audiobook that, unfortunately, was a few hours too long. The first few hours were engrossing, but they took a downward turn at roughly the midway point.

The Thirty Years War To The English Civil War. The book starts before the Thirty Years with an English man joining the Swedish Army. He tells of his life and adventures in the Swedish Army. Then his Life in the Army of King Charles during the English Civil War. I highly recommend.

A hard read how he survived all them battles is a bit hard to believe recommended if you know your English civil war history really well and you know about the thirty years war overall I rate it three stars glad I give it ago
This one not for me but probably worth more stars if you know your history

Unbelievably fantastic

One of the best books I have read, it really enlightened me into the history surrounding the period or era of the English civil war, which was something I never studied in any great detail during my school years. I feel it's an area that education should focus on so much more,

The back cover makes it sound like Defoe wanted to write a fake memoir of a military man to show how incapable someone who was in the middle of great events might be at putting them into a coherent picture with some perspective. In practice that means that this novel seems entirely lacking in struct