Charles X's Wars: Volume 1 - Armies of the Swedish Deluge, 1655-1660

This book describes and analyses the ‘Swedish Deluge’ (potop szwedski), the devastating 1655-1660 wars fought between Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Brandenburg-Prussia, Muscovite Russia, Transylvania, Cossack Ukraine, the Tatar Khanate of Crimea, and the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Swedish King Charles X Gustavus, an experienced former general from the Thirty Years’ War.

By invading the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, King Charles saw an opportunity to put an end to ...