King's Last Field, Gustavus Adolphus, Wallenstein, and the Battle That Broke the Thirty Years' War

The King's Last Field, Gustavus Adolphus, Wallenstein, and the Battle That Broke the Thirty Years' War At noon on the sixteenth of November 1632, a Swedish king rode into fog and gunsmoke to save his faltering center, and never rode out again. Gustavus II Adolphus, the soldier-king whose battlefield reforms had shattered imperial armies at Breitenfeld and carried Swedish arms to the gates of Munic...