The Thirty Years' War: A Brief History, 1618-1648

"A concise history of a cataclysmic European conflict in the 17th century The Thirty Years' War was fought between 1618-1648 and is widely recognised as being one of the most destructive wars ever fought. More people lost their lives in this conflict, as a percentage of the total population at the time, than in the conflicts of the twentieth century. Fought principally in central Europe—and mostly over terrain now in modern day Germany—the war involved more than fifteen nation states. Forces wer