Memoirs of a cavalier, or, A military journal of the wars in Germany and the wars in England

Presented as the memoir of a gentleman soldier, this book follows a young Englishman who fights in the Thirty Years' War under Gustavus Adolphus and later takes the king's side in the English Civil War. It describes sieges, marches and battles in a measured, eyewitness manner. Though fiction, it was built from real histories and reads like a genuine memoir. It is valued for its picture of seventeenth-century warfare and its sober view of conflict.