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

Veronica Wedgwood, the author of a number of works on 17th-century Europe and one of the most renowned and popular historians in Great Britain, presents a comprehensive chronicle of the Thirty Years' War with its major battles and key participants. In vivid and striking detail, she portrays Europe in 1618, torn by contradictions between Catholics and Protestants; the Bourbons and the Habsburgs; between empires, kingdoms, and countless small states. After angry Protestants threw three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out of the windows of the royal castle in Prague, a revolt 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.