these advantages the quality of the commander supplied
an invaluable supplement. Mastering every detail, shar-
ing every hardship, taking every risk, seizing every op-
portunity, Gustavus inspired his swift and mettlesome
warriors to endure, to obey, and if need be, to die.”
References: Bongard, David L., “Gustavus Adolphus,” in
The Encyclopedia of Military Biography, edited by Trevor
N. Dupuy, Curt Johnson, and David L. Bongard (Lon-
don: I. B. Taurus, 1992), 303–304; Fletcher, C. R. L.,
Gustavus Adolphus and the Thirty Years War (New York:
Capricorn Books, 1963); Ahnlund, Nils, Gustav Adolf the
Great, translated by Michael Roberts (Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1983); Roberts, Michael, Gustavus
Adolphus, 2d ed. (London: Longman, 1992); Bennett,
Matthew, “Gustavus Adolphus (correctly Gustav Adolf ),
King of Sweden,” in The Oxford Companion to Military
History, edited by Richard Holmes (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001), 391–392; Brzezinski, Richard,
The Army of Gustavus Adolphus, 2 vols. (London: Osprey
Military, 1991–93); Fisher, H. A. L., A History of Europe,
2 vols. (London: Collins, 1935), 626–627.guStAv ii