“Europe´s Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War”

The Thirty Years War was on of the longest and most devastating conflicts in European history. Nearly all the major European powers were drawn into this violent religious and political crisis, which raged across the continent between 1618 and 1648. It killed around a quarter of all Germans, with marauding bands of mercenaries laying waste to entire towns and regions across Central Europe, some of which never recovered.

Peter Wilsons compelling book is the first new history of the war in a generation, revealing its complex causes, and showing definitively how it redrew the map of modern Europe – at a terrible price.

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