![]() ![]() ![]() While at nearly 1,000 pages this book is a significant investment of time, it is one that repays that investment ten fold. The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying. The quality and plenitude of maps and illustrations are a great aid in following the often highly complex narrative. The longer the war continued however, the harder it became to stop with none of the numerous participants able to muster enough strength to force a conclusion, leading to atrocities like the sack of Magdeburg and to a loss of life from plague and famine on an unimaginable scale. Wilson shows there was nothing inevitable about the war that broke out in 1618 and argues that there were many opportunities for peace throughout the period. ![]() Wilson has produced a magisterial work that eloquently covers the causes, the main events and the consequences of this conflagration, perhaps the most terrible period in European history between the Black Death and the Second World War.’ With Europe’s Tragedy, the first major history of the war in English for seventy years, Peter H. He added that he prayed 'that the war should end and peace should come to our homes, city and country.' A total of 23 people were killed on Friday when two Russian missiles hit an apartment. The Thirty Years’ War ravaged Europe from 1618 to 1648, splitting the Holy Roman Empire into opposing confessional camps and drawing almost every major power into conflict. Europe’s Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years’ War ![]()
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