LIVES OF THE WARRIORS OF THE 30 YEARS WAR: Volume 2

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Facsimile of the 1865 edition. Details the lives of Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, Johann von Baner, Matthias von Gallas, Leonard Torstenson, Johann von Werth, Gustavus Horn, Octavio Piccolomini, and Raymond de Montecuculi. 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 24 plates.