![]() ![]() ![]() See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information. If you use the code 'VEDay' on sign up, you get 30 days free, then your first five months access will be just £1/€1/$1 - it's £5.99 a month after. The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618 - 48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. ![]() We have got our BEST EVER offer available at the moment. We're running live podcasts on Zoom, we've got weekly quizzes where you can win prizes, and exclusive subscriber only articles. Subscribe to History Hit and you'll get access to hundreds of history documentaries, as well as every single episode of this podcast from the beginning (400 extra episodes). Professor Peter Wilson of Oxford University took me on a whistle stop tour through these tumultuous years - from defenestrations in Prague, Westphalian sovereignty and how the soldiers of WWI remembered these events three centuries later. ![]() Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world. It killed nearly a quarter of all Germans and transformed the map of the modern world. A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. This lengthy volume represents a magnificent scholarly achievement based on the mastery of an enormous literature. The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. ![]()
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