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At dawn of September 7, 1628, the man in the lookout spotted sails on the horizon. All hands rush on deck, orders sound through the air, the men ready their weapons. The Spanish treasure fleet is finally within their grasp. Piet Hein, the greatest privateer of the Netherlands, the sea wolf of the Dutch Republic, had been waiting for these ships for over a month. The following night he was to celebrate the greatest success of his career. He was to rob the hated Spanish of one of their most valuable goods: the treasure fleet from the New World.

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Bibliography
Boer, M. G. de, Piet Heyn en de Zilveren Vloot, 1946.
Boxer, C. R., Piet Hein and the Silver-Fleet, in: History Today 13, 6 (1963), pp 398-406.
Praak, M., The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century. The Golden Age, Cambridge 2015.
Marx, Robert, The capture of the treasure fleet: The story of Piet Heyn , 1977. [ Ссылка ]
Ratelband, K., De Westafrikaanse reis van Piet Heyn 1624-1625, Zutphen 2006. [ Ссылка ]
Stradling, R. A., Philip IV and the Government of Spain, 1621–1665, Cambridge 2002. [ Ссылка ]

Reading list:
Warfare:
Duffy, C., Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, Vol. 1, 1979. [ Ссылка ]
Devries, K., Douglas, R., Medieval Military Technology, 1992, [ Ссылка ].
Rogers, C.J., The military revolution debate. Readings on the military transformation of early modern Europe, 1995. [ Ссылка ]
Rogers, C.J., Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages, 2006. [ Ссылка ]
Parker, C., The Cambridge History of Warfare, 2005. [ Ссылка ]
Van Nimwegen, O., The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, 2010. [ Ссылка ]

Fiction related to the Early modern period:
Alexandre Dumas,The Three Musketeers [ Ссылка ]
Alexandre Dumas, 20 Years After [ Ссылка ]
Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne [ Ссылка ]
Markus Heitz, The Dark Lands [ Ссылка ]

Military Si-Fi recommendations:
Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe (Series of 22 books on the Napoleonic Wars), [ Ссылка ]
Dan Abnett, The Founding: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) [ Ссылка ]
Dan Abnett, The Lost: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) [ Ссылка ]
Dan Abnett, The Saint A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) [ Ссылка ]
Glen Cook, Chronicles of the Black Company (Chronicles of the Black Company Series Book 1) [ Ссылка ]

Historiography:
Neville Morley, Writing Ancient History 1999. [ Ссылка ]
Albeit focused on ancient history, it's a brilliant book for anybody who is interested in what history actually is. Is it a story? How does it work in practise? Can writing history be objective? Is it "scientific"? What makes it a proper discipline at university?

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