The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatine and the Coming of the Thirty Years' War. By Brennan C. Pursell. (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 320, $55.00.)
The author of this book sympathetically depicts the elector Palatine who, more than anyone else, was responsible for the expansion of a local crisis into a thirty-year conflagration that engulfed central Europe and caused untold loss of life and property. This rich, multifaceted study, based on archives in Munich, London, ...