Name: the thirty years war: europe ` s tragedy
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Author: Peter H. Wilson
ISBN: 9780674062313

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the thirty years war: europe ` s tragedy

Type

Physical Book

Author

Peter H. Wilson

Publisher

Belknap Press

Topic

military - general ; europe - general

Language

English

Pages

1024

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.4 x 16.3 x 5.6 cm

Weight

1.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780674062313

Synopsis "the thirty years war: europe ` s tragedy"

A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. When defiant Bohemians tossed the Habsburg emperor's envoys from the castle windows in Prague in 1618, the Holy Roman Empire struck back with a vengeance. Bohemia was ravaged by mercenary troops in the first battle of a conflagration that would engulf Europe from Spain to Sweden. The sweeping narrative encompasses dramatic events and unforgettable individuals--the sack of Magdeburg; the Dutch revolt; the Swedish militant king Gustavus Adolphus; the imperial generals, opportunistic Wallenstein and pious Tilly; and crafty diplomat Cardinal Richelieu. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict. By war's end a recognizably modern Europe had been created, but at what price? The Thirty Years War condemned the Germans to two centuries of internal division and international impotence and became a benchmark of brutality for centuries. As late as the 1960s, Germans placed it ahead of both world wars and the Black Death as their country's greatest disaster. An understanding of the Thirty Years War is essential to comprehending modern European history. Wilson's masterful book will stand as the definitive account of this epic conflict. For a map of Central Europe in 1618, referenced on page XVI, please visit this book's page on the Harvard University Press website.

Peter H. Wilson

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Peter H. Wilson is a British historian born in 1963, specialized in military history and the history of the Holy Roman Empire. Since 2015, he holds the Chichele Chair of War History at All Souls College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on the impact of war on European and global development, as well as the history of the Holy Roman Empire.

Among his most notable works are The Thirty Years War: A European Tragedy (2009), The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of European History (2016), and Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-speaking Peoples since 1500 (2022), the latter awarded the Duke of Wellington Medal in 2023. His work has been recognized for its academic depth and ability to contextualize military conflicts within European political and cultural history.

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