The History of the Russo - Polish Thirteen Years' War, 1654-1667 - Paperback
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The History of the Russo - Polish Thirteen Years' War, 1654-1667
In the summer of 1654, the armies of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich crossed the western frontier of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and set in motion one of the most consequential conflicts in European history. The Thirteen Years' War, fought across the devastated borderlands of Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania by Russian, Polish, and Cossack forces whose competing visions of the eastern European order would prove irreconcilable, was not merely a contest for territory. It was the crucible in which the modern Eastern European world was forged.
Drawing on the full sweep of the conflict's military, diplomatic, and social history, this sweeping narrative examines the war's decisive campaigns and battles, from the fall of Smolensk and the capture of Vilnius to the tactical masterpiece of Konotop and the catastrophic Polish defeat at Mątwy, alongside the constitutional dramas and political tragedies that shaped its course. It profiles the commanders, diplomats, and revolutionary leaders whose decisions determined the fate of millions: Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ivan Vyhovsky, Afanasy Ordin-Nashchokin, Stefan Czarniecki, and Tsar Alexei himself.
At its heart, this is the story of the Ukrainian Cossack Hetmanate, its revolutionary birth, its impossible position between two empires, and its long, tragic destruction. The shadow cast by the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667 falls across Eastern Europe still.
Denis O'Boyle was born and raised in County Clare and has spent the better part of two decades immersed in the military and diplomatic history of early modern Eastern Europe. A graduate of University College Dublin with a long-standing fascination with the civilisational contest between Russia, Poland, and the Ukrainian Cossack world, he came to the Thirteen Years' War through an interest in the questions it never quite resolved, about sovereignty, cultural identity, and the fate of peoples caught between expanding empires. This book is the product of years of engagement with the primary and secondary literature of the conflict. He is the author of several works of narrative nonfiction spanning military history, biography, and geopolitical history.
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