Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48.(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Woodford, Charlotte | Copyright information

Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48. By GEOFF MORTIMER. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2002. x+214 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-98404-8 (hbk).

This remarkable work is based on an impressive sixty-six eyewitness accounts which the author has drawn together for the first time. Although all the accounts have been published, mostly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, few of them have been the subject of any detailed, modern research. Most of them were ...

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