After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with similar abandon and relentless persistence, destroying European powers from Spain to Sweden as they marched on the contested soil of Germany. Fanatics, speculators, and ordinary people found themselves trapped in a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction. The Thirty Years War was a turning point in the making of modern Europe and the modern world: out of it came the system of nation-states that remains fundamental to international law. C.V. Wedgwood's magisterial book is the only comprehensive account of the war in English, as well as a triumph of scholarship and literature. Includes maps and charts.

    A moving, truthful historical record, it deserves to be added to the select list of outstanding accounts of the First World War.

    Folio, too large for scanner; photo-illustrated jacket, navy boards with gilt spine imprinting, navy endpapers, 320 pp. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket showing small-scale edge curl at top edge and a rear flap which needs re-creasing. L-flthc

    A history of the United States Navy since the Revolutionary War.Includes black & white pictures sections.After-matter includes Ships of the Navy (a listing); Bibliography and Notes; and Index.