About the book: year / "History of military art" by Professor Major General E.A. Razin is a unique publication that summarizes the experience of the history of wars from ancient times to the end of the Middle Ages. The third volume of the study by E.A. Razin, first published in 1961, is dedicated to the era of the 16th–17th centuries. The author examines in detail the military aspects of the Time of Troubles in Russia, the organization and structure of the Cossacks of the Zaporozhye Sich in the 17th century, the stages of the Thirty Years' War in Europe and the bourgeois revolution in England, the history of wars of the 16th–17th centuries. in China and the Mughal Empire, the confrontation between American Indians and European colonialists during the development of a new continent and much more.