Contact Information
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, Center for Global Studies
Highlighted Publications
BOOKS
The Bayonets of the Republic: Motivation and Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791-94. University of Illinois Press. 1984.
The Tools of War: Ideas, Instruments, and Institutions of Warfare, 1445-1871. Ed. John A. Lynn. University of Illinois Press. 1990.
Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present. Ed. John A. Lynn. Westview Press. 1993.
Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610-1715. Cambridge University Press. 1997.
The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667-1714. Longman. 1999.
Battle: A History of Combat and Culture. Westview Press. 2004.
Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press. 2008.
Another Kind of War: The Nature and History of Terrorism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019.
Recent Publications
Lynn, J. A. (2024). Leaving the Fight: Surrender, Prisoners of War, and Detainees in Western Warfare. Cambridge University Press.
Lynn, J. A. (2019). Another Kind of War: The Nature and History of Terrorism. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvk8vzjr
Lynn, J. A. (2019). The Bayonets Of The Republic: Motivation And Tactics In The Army Of Revolutionary France, 1791-94. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429309052
Lynn, J. A. (2018). Recalculating French army growth during the Grand Siècley 1610-1715. In C. J. Rogers (Ed.), The Military Revolution Debate: Readings on the Military Transformation of early Modern Europe (pp. 117-148). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429496264-6
Lynn, J. A. (2018). The trace italienne and the growth of armies: The French case. In C. J. Rogers (Ed.), The Military Revolution Debate: Readings on the Military Transformation of early Modern Europe (pp. 169-200). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429496264-8
