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  • The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618
    Geoff Mortimer
    As the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years War approaches, Geoff Mortimer provides a timely re-assessment of its origins. These lie mainly neither in religious tensions in Germany nor in the conflicts between Spain, France and the Dutch, but in the revolt in Bohemia and the famous defenestration of Prague. ...
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  • The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618
    Geoff Mortimer
    As the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years War approaches, Geoff Mortimer provides a timely re-assessment of its origins. These lie mainly neither in religious tensions in Germany nor in the conflicts between Spain, France and the Dutch, but in the revolt in Bohemia and the famous defenestration of Prague. ...
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    47,78 €

  • Wallenstein
    Geoff Mortimer
    A minor Bohemian nobleman who within the space of a few years became a prince and one of the greatest landowners of his age; a military entrepreneur who twice saved the Holy Roman Emperor from disaster with armies he raised, financed and led, but was then ...
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  • Early Modern Military History, 1450-1815
    Geoff Mortimer
    Key military developments occurred in the Early Modern period, during which armies evolved from troops of medieval knights to Napoleon’s mass levies. Firearms impelled change, necessitating new battlefield tactics and fundamentally altering siege and naval warfare. The size and cost of military forces expanded enormously, and new standing armies underpinned the growing absoluti...
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    121,89 €

  • Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48
    Geoff Mortimer
    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 disc...
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    134,23 €