The Thirty Years War

The Thirty Years War
ISBN-10
1681371235
ISBN-13
9781681371238
Category
History
Pages
536
Language
English
Published
2016-09-13
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Author
C. V. Wedgwood

Description

Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. 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 relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.

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