The Thirty Years War
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
520 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
9781590171462, 1590171462
57010133
Germany and Europe : 1618
A king for Bohemia : 1617-19
Spanish tocsin, German alarum : 1619-21
The Emperor Ferdinand and the Elector Maximilian : 1621-5
Towards the Baltic : 1625-8
Deadlock : 1628-30
The king of Sweden : 1630-2
From Lützen to Nördlingen
and beyond 1632-5
The struggle for the Rhine : 1635-9
The collapse of Spain : 1639-43
Towards peace : 1643-8
The peace and after
Originally published: London : J. Cape, 1938