Peter Hamish Wilson is a British historian. Since 2015, he has held the Chichele Professor of the History of War chair at All Souls College, University of Oxford.
Books in order of publication:
War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677–1793 (= Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1995
German Armies. War and German Politics, 1648–1806. UCL Press, London 1998,
Absolutism in Central Europe (Historical Connections Series). Routledge, London 2000
From Reich to Revolution. German History, 1558–1806. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills 2004
(editor): 1848. The Year of Revolutions (International Library of Essays in Political History). Ashgate, Aldershot 2006
(editor): Warfare in Europe 1815–1914 (International Library of Military History). Ashgate, Aldershot 2006
(editor): A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Europe. Blackwell, Oxford 2008,
(editor): with Alan Forrest: The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the end of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806. Palgrave, Basingstoke 2009
Europe’s Tragedy: A History of the Thirty Years War. Allen Lane, London 2009,
(editor): The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook. Palgrave, Basingstoke 2010
(editor): with Robert John Weston Evans (Hrsg.): The Holy Roman Empire, 1495–1806: A European Perspective. Brill, Leiden 2012
The Holy Roman Empire. A Thousand Years of Europe’s History. Allen Lane, London 2016
Great Battles: Lützen. Oxford University Press, 2018
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500. Harvard University Press, 2023,
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