Contact Information
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, History
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.
The French Wars, 1667-1714: The Sun King at War. Osprey, 2002.
Acta, Coming to the Americas: XXV: XXVIIIth Congress of the International Commission of Military History. Ed. John A. Lynn. U.S. Commission of Military History, 2003.
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.
Leaving the Fight: Surrender, Prisoners of War, and Detainees in Western Warfare, Cambridge University Press. 2024.
Recent Publications
Lynn, J. A. (2025). Leaving the Fight: Surrender, Prisoners of War, and Detainees in Western Warfare. (Cambridge Military Histories). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139104203
Lynn, J. A. (2020). Nations in Arms 1763-1815. In The Cambridge History of Warfare: Second Edition (pp. 189-217). Cambridge University Press.
Lynn, J. A. (2020). States in Conflict 1661-1763. In The Cambridge History of Warfare: Second Edition (pp. 167-187). 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