The Thirty Years War : Europe's tragedy
(Book)

Originally published under title: Europe's tragedy : a history of the Thirty Years War. London : Allen Lane, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.