The Thirty Years War
by Peter H. Wilson |
The Thirty Years' War
by Geoffrey Parker | 
The Enemy at the Gate
by Andrew Wheatcroft |
Europe
by Norman Davies |
The Pursuit of Glory
by Tim Blanning |
Vanished Kingdoms
by Norman Davies |
The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815
by Charles W. Ingrao | 
Early Modern Europe
by Euan Cameron |
The Habsburgs
by Andrew Wheatcroft | 
The Coming of the Third Reich
by Richard J. Evans | 
Armageddon
by Max Hastings |
Vienna, 1814
by David King | 
The Vertigo Years
by Philipp Blom |
Dresden
by Frederick Taylor | 
Wolfram
by Giles Milton | 
Hitlerland
by Andrew Nagorski |
Dark Continent
by Mark Mazower | 
Orderly and Humane
by R. M. Douglas | 
Red Orchestra
by Anne Nelson | 
After the Reich
by Giles MacDonogh |
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. Wedgwood'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.