The Thirty Years' War. The Greatest Battles for Supremacy in Medieval Europe. 1618—1648

S.V. Wedgwood is the author of a number of works on 17th century Europe and one of the most well-known and popular historians in Britain, presenting a comprehensive chronicle of the Thirty Years' War with its major battles and key participants. It vividly portrays Europe in 1618, torn apart by contradictions between Catholics and Protestants; the Bourbons and the Habsburgs; between empires, kingdoms, and countless small states. After outraged Protestants threw three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out of the windows of the royal castle in Prague, an uprising broke out, and the war began to inexorably spread from Bohemia throughout Europe, involving countries from Spain to Sweden in a nightmarish carousel of hunger, epidemics, and endless chaos.