Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an English historian and writer. Gardiner wrote an extensive book on the Thrity Years' War, one of the longest and most destructive wars in European history, which involved most European countries.
This volume is a collaborative effort, wherein the first five chapters are arranged chronologically, and the sixth revises the conventional picture of a devastated Germany.
Won by the Sword: A Tale of the Thirty Years' War
The engrossing accounts of their shifting fortunes over the three decades of the war really help to give this collection of texts, and the troublesome period itself, a human face.
Won by the Sword: A Tale of the Thirty Years' War
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