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Wallenstein : the enigma of the Thirty Years War
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Title
Wallenstein : the enigma of the Thirty Years War / Geoff Mortimer.
ISBN
9780230272125 (hbk.)
0230272126 (hbk.)
9780230272132 (pbk.)
0230272134 (pbk.)
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description
xi, 277 p., 8 p. of plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 05, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
No great expectations
Early manhood
Maturity
Gradisca
A scandal in Bohemia
Richer than all his tribe
Minting money
A man of property
The fault is not in our stars
Some achieve greatness
War without end
A general and a duke
Go, captain, greet the Danish king
The Dessau bridge
1626 : a campaign and a conference
1627-28 : Denmark and Stralsund
At the parting of the ways
The Edict of Restitution
An Italian entanglement
The limits of power
The wheel is come full circle
Dismissal
Intermezzo
Resumption
Once more unto the breach
Wallenstein's second army
Towards confrontation
From the fury of the Norsemen deliver us
The Alte Veste
Lützen
Of peace and other demons
Exile intrigues
Fruitless endeavours
Decline and fall
The gathering storm
Hope springs eternal
Condemned unheard
Assassination is the quickest way
Death, a necessary end
Aftermath
Requiem
But Brutus says he was ambitious.
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