The Thirty Years WarNew York Review of Books, 2005 M06 30 - 536 páginas Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction. |
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... carried away . In one crisp , breathless set piece , Wedgwood pulls off an astonishing range of literary effects , including a splendid virtual close - up : " Slavata fought longer , call- ing on the Blessed Virgin and clawing at the ...
... carried away . In one crisp , breathless set piece , Wedgwood pulls off an astonishing range of literary effects , including a splendid virtual close - up : " Slavata fought longer , call- ing on the Blessed Virgin and clawing at the ...
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... carry out this project , and with the help of Sir John Neale , she revised her first draft , which she later described to Ved Mehta as " very feminine and sentimental , " making it into a sharp , accessible work that followed with ...
... carry out this project , and with the help of Sir John Neale , she revised her first draft , which she later described to Ved Mehta as " very feminine and sentimental , " making it into a sharp , accessible work that followed with ...
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Página viii - The war solved no problem. Its effects, both immediate and indirect, were either negative or disastrous. Morally subversive, economically destructive, socially degrading, confused in its causes, devious in its course, futile in its result, it is the outstanding example in European history of meaningless conflict.