If youve never heard of the bloody conflict, its also your best introduction, with. Kuehn best defense guest columnist the socalled arab spring has now turned into. Thanks to xios, alan haskayne, lachlan lindenmayer, william crabb, derpvic, seth reeves and all my other patrons. Peter wilsons book is a major work, the first new history of the thirty years war in a generation. Parker is a careful editor, as the book has a uniform style and reads like a single author text. It is written primarily by geoffrey parker, though he recruited expert colleagues to assist on some chapters. Annals of medicine about the latest news on conquering cancer, and the long history of announcements that a cureor at least an understanding of the diseasewas. Is syrianrelated violence the beginning of the muslim.
Even so, the thirty years war is the most readable and uptodate history of this epochal european trauma. This book is a concise introduction to the thirty years war. It was rediscovered in a library in berlin in the early 1990s. It is a fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling series of events, which tore the heart out of europe. Parker tries to examine the war from all of the sides invovled. Best books on the thirty years war five books expert. The thirty years war was a war fought primarily in central europe between 1618 and 1648.
A books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Historical romance where the heroine or hero is widowed by war. Wedgwood a descendent of the potter who founded the wedgwood company. Wilsons the thirty years war skip to main content skip to search. One of the most destructive conflicts in human history, 14 it resulted in eight million fatalities not only from military engagements but also from violence, famine, and plague.
Somewhere along the way i picked up that the book on the thirty years war was the prosaically entitled the thirty years war written in 1938 by a twentyeightyearold english woman, c. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Its a fascinating book on the thirty years war because of its length. Hello and welcome to feature history, featuring religious conflict, tragic war, and a really nifty collaboration with jabzy. The last book on your list is the diary of a mercenary from the thirty years war by peter hagendorf. It begins its narative in 1608 to show some of the background of the war. This book is an exallent book on the thirty years war.
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