Thirty Years War, 1618-1648

An extensive history of the thirty-year, seventeenth-century conflict that transformed Europe and the world.The ''Defenestration of Prague'', the coup d''etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War. When Habsburg Spain intervened in support of their Holy Roman Emperor relative, what had started as a localised political and reli...