The Thirty Years War. (reprint, 1938).(HISTORY (GENERAL))(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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The Thirty Years War. (reprint, 1938)

Wedgwood, C. V. (New York Review Books classics)

New York Review Books, [c]2005

520 p.

$18.95 (pa)

Wedgwood's classic narrative (first published in 1938) traces the battles, famines, atrocities and hard-won triumphs as the conflict over whether Europe would be Catholic or Protestant ...

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