Thirty Years’ War

Name: Thirty Years’ War
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by Hourly History Book 6 in the Wars in European History series.

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The Thirty Years’ War traces the conflict that began with revolt in Bohemia in 1618 and expanded into a struggle involving the Habsburgs, German princes, Denmark, Sweden, France and Spain. It explains how religious division combined with dynastic and territorial rivalry.

The book follows major phases, commanders and battles while examining military finance, occupation, famine and epidemic disease. It concludes with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and assesses the war’s destructive impact on central Europe and its significance for the politics of the Holy Roman Empire.