2020 The War of Succession in Spain 1700-15, by Henry Kamen (read 19 Sep 1986) This is an exceptionally "dry" book. In fact, one cure for insomnia is: read one-half hour in the dullest book one can find. I used this book on I think three occasions, and two out of the three times it worked. Kamen is a thorough professional historian who disdains, utterly, any popularization. This book is mostly based on archival primary sources. It tells little about the war, but studies its impact on Spanish society. For a guy like me, who knows so little about Spain in that time, it was non-absorbing. ( )