Peter H Wilson

Broschiertes Buch

The Thirty Years War

Europe's Tragedy

Beschreibung

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. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.

Autor

Peter H. Wilson is the author of Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire, an Economist and Sunday Times Best Book, and The Thirty Years War: Europe¿s Tragedy, winner of the Distinguished Book Award from the Society of Military History. He has appeared on BBC Radio and has written for Prospect, the Los Angeles Times, and the Financial Times. President of the Society for the History of War and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Wilson is Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford. His work has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1364g
• ISBN-13: 9780674062313
• ISBN-10: 0674062310
• Artikelnr.: 33260282