Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48
by Geoff Mortimer
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The Thirty Years War - the first great pan-European war, and until the twentieth century the most terrible - ravaged Germany, but myth, propaganda and historical controversy have obscured its true nature. Another perspective is provided by the private diaries, memoirs and chronicles of soldiers and citizens who recorded their own experiences. War at the individual level is discussed and described using these sources, which are extensively quoted in their own words.Tags
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Geoff Mortimer studied history and German at Oxford University, where he also taught at St Edmund Hall. His publications include Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48 (2002), Early Modern Military History, 1450-1815 (2004), and a number of articles on this period.
Common Knowledge
- People/Characters
- Gallus Zembroth; General Robert Monro; Gustavus Adolphus; Bernard of Saxe-Weimar; Ernst von Mansfeld; Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (show all 29); Thomas Mallinger; Abraham Winkler; Klara Staiger; Bentele Raph; Jürgen Ackermann; Sydenham Poyntz; Sebastian Bürster; Peter Hagendorf; Hans Vitzthum von Eckstadt; Peter Thiele; Hans Heberle; Johannes Schleyss; Augustin von Fritsch; Jakob Wagner; Johann Jakob Walther; Johann Georg Oberacker; Anna Wolff; Thomas Raymond; Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin; Sir John Hepburn; Juliana Ernst; Simon Prinz; Otto von Guericke
- Important places
- Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Hohentwiel Fortress, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Nördlingen, Bavaria, Germany; Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany (show all 16); Donauwörth, Bavaria, Germany; Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany; Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany; Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; Breisach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Allensbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Radolfzell, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Stralsund, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; Breitenfeld, Saxony, Germany; Kassel, Hesse, Germany
- Important events
- Thirty Years' War
Classifications
- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 940.2 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe Europe: Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, Napolean
- LCC
- D270 .A2 .M67 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General) Modern history, 1453- 1601-1715. 17th century Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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