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Europe's Tragedy - A New History of the Thirty Years War (Paperback)
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Europe's Tragedy - A New History of the Thirty Years War (Paperback)
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Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
2011 The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War
(1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter
of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to
such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the
major European powers apart from Russia were heavily involved and,
while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting
rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to
marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder.
The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this
tangle of motives that made it impossible to stop. Whether
motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict
was destroyed by it. At its end a recognizably modern Europe had
been created but at a terrible price. Peter Wilson's book is a
major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a
fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling
series of events. Wilson's great strength is in allowing the reader
to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to
gamble their countries' future with such horrifying results. The
principal actors in the drama (Wallenstein, Ferdinand II, Gustavus
Adolphus, Richelieu) are all here, but so is the experience of the
ordinary soldiers and civilians, desperately trying to stay alive
under impossible circumstances.
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