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The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy Peter H. Wilson
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Mar 27, 2013 - The towns were set on fire, like Dresden during World War II, and the Thirty Years' War kept spilling over into what is now Germany and Eastern Europe. Nov 11, 2013 - I then met Professor Peter H. It provided the audience with a somewhat realistic setting and metaphorically transported audience members to war-torn medieval Europe. Mar 14, 2014 - The first big 20th century war was the last in a series of wars for European domination that goes back to the Thirty Years War of the 17th century, the War of Spanish Succession at the start of the 18th century, and Waterloo a century later. Clearly it was for the brutalized native peoples whose communities, already decimated by Old World pathogens, had become ensnared in webs of dependency on European goods and armed force. Jul 6, 2010 - However, after the Thirty Years' War ended, European militaries grew smaller and wars further from the people (until the Napoleonic Wars, at least), and the trope receded. Her death was tragic and true act of courage. It is a tragedy, where the desire to fight and protect ones homeland brings naught but death and destruction to it. The focus and dimensions of this impressive, at times exhausting, study is underscored by its subtitle, “Europe's Tragedy.”. His entire Farn Baumrinde trillogy, especially 'Barren ' and 'Black Tulip '. Dec 16, 2009 - The Thirty Years War is the subject of a monumental new book by British scholar, Peter Wilson. The next big war, 1939-45, for us, the Poles and Germans, and the So what happened in 1943 is actualité – seven decades later, not least in the tragedy of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Gave her life so that others could live. At the end of a century ravaged by war on .. The American Civil War prompted another early expression of the trope: Union General William . Jul 9, 2012 - During the year 1638, Europe was still in the midst of the Thirty Years' War, and leaders in France and Sweden were trying to regain the upper hand. Apr 13, 2007 - Was Kieft's War a tragedy? Feb 22, 2014 - A lone woman, Anna Fierling, tries to achieve the irreconcilable aims of making money and keeping her family alive during the nightmare of the Thirty Years War.