From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: December 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48, by Ronald G. Asch. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1997. xiv, 247 pp. $49.95 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper).

The Thirty Years War, fought largely within the boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire from 1618 to 1648, is a war which has been neglected by twentieth-century historians. There are many reasons for this neglect. Because the participants in this war came from throughout Europe, the documents on which a good history could be written are not located in one country, let alone in one central archive. They are ...