Wilson’s previous studies include War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677-1793 (1995), German Armies: War and German Society, 1648-1806 (1998), The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806 (1999), From Reich to Revolution: German History 1558-1806 (2004), as well as a recently published document collection The Thirty Years War: A Sourcebook (2010). Wilson, Professor of History at the University of Hull, and a leading historian of Early Modern Germany, has taken up this task, and given us the first general account of the conflict since Geoffrey Parker’s The Thirty Years War (1984). Most of the published literature is meant for specialists, and many of the brief overviews are geared for students.ĭr Peter H. As such, there are few full-length general accounts of the Thirty Years War. Major stumbling blocks to the study of the war include the need to work with at least fourteen languages, study thousands of published works, and toil in numerous archives to produce a study that would cover all aspects of a conflict that involved much of Europe. Writing a history of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) presents the historian with many problems because of the complexity of the conflict. Originally published in The Journal of Military History 74 (July 2010): 915-16. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2009.
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