Who Won the Thirty Years War?
Peter H. Wilson unravels one of the most notoriously bloody and complex conflicts in European history to answer the question.
Dame Veronica Wedgwood concluded her celebrated account of the Thirty Years War, first published in 1938, by claiming it 'solved no problem' and was 'the outstanding example in European history of meaningless conflict.' To those caught in its maw, as well as later generations struggling to understand it, the war seemed an endless succession of horrifying events which ravaged all who became involved and devastated its principal battleground,
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