The Thirty Years War | 
The complexity of The Thirty Years War is perhaps only surpassed by the task of its telling. The only comparison I know of is Thucydides Peloponnesian War, the best history I have ever read. There are a few differences of note. C V Wedgewood wrote her history three-hundred years after the event, the source material was not in her native language, and she was twenty-eight years old when she published her masterpiece.
Kinniska Am reading Leigh Fermor‘s memoirs of his travels through 1930s Europe and his descriptions of Prague include a strong recommendation of her account of the thirty years war — I‘m adding it to the reading list! 11mo
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