LIVES OF THE WARRIORS OF THE 30 YEARS WAR: Volume 1

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Facsimile of the 1865 edition. Details the lives of Maurice of Orange-Nassau, Marquis of Spinosa, Count von Tilly, Gustavus Adolphus, Godfrey von Pappenheim, and Albrecht von Wallenstein. Like a complicated game of chess, playing its own rules, the 30 Years War swayed backward and forward over a destroyed Europe. At the head of multiple armies were the great commanders and strategists of the age. Their lives and military careers are essential study for an understanding of the period. Contains 12 plates.