TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Peter H.
TI  - The Thirty Years War: Europe's tragedy 
SN  - 9780674036345 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 940.24 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
KW  - Europe
KW  - History, Military
KW  - 1492-1648
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict--a conflict that ultimately transformed the map of the modern world
ER  -