Renaissance - History, General & Miscellaneous European History, German History - 1519 - 1648 (Reformation & Counter Reformation), General & Miscellaneous German History, 1589 - 1789 (Bourbon Dynasty) - French History, Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, Spain

The Thirty Years War

Name: The Thirty Years War
Author: C. V. Wedgwood
ISBN: 9780416320206

by C. V. Wedgwood

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Overview

Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg - as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless independent states. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with similar abandon and relentless persistence, destroying European powers from Spain to Sweden as they marched on the contested soil of Germany. Fanatics, speculators, and ordinary people found themselves trapped in a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction. The Thirty Years War was a turning point in the making of modern Europe and the modern world: out of it came the system of nation-states that remains fundamental to international law. C. V. Wedgewood's magisterial book is the only comprehensive account of the war in English, as well as a triumph of scholarship and literature. Includes maps and charts.