I can think of no better example of the very best military history ... Without doubt one of the stand out academic publications of the year in question, it illuminates the crucial transition from a quasi-feudal to a national defence system in England. Lucidly written by one of our leading early modernist historians of war and based on the Ford lectures delivered at Oxford in 2015, it breaks entirely new ground.
Steven Gunn studied at Merton College, Oxford. He has held research fellowships there and at the University of Newcastle, and is now Fellow and Tutor in History at Merton College and Professor of Early Modern History at Oxford. His books include Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, c.1484-1545 (1988), Early Tudor Government 1485-1558 (1995), Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England (2016) and, with David Grummitt and Hans Cools, War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands, 1477-1559 (2007).