- 225 pages
- English
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Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48
About this book
The Thirty Years War - the first great pan-European war, and until the twentieth century the most terrible - ravaged Germany, but myth, propaganda and historical controversy have obscured its true nature. Another perspective is provided by the private diaries, memoirs and chronicles of soldiers and citizens who recorded their own experiences. War at the individual level is discussed and described using these sources, which are extensively quoted in their own words.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Sources, References and Translations
- 1 What Happened in the Thirty Years War?
- 2 Sources, Authors and Texts
- 3 Military Perspectives
- 4 Civilian Perceptions
- 5 Siege and Storm
- 6 Faith and Experience
- 7 Counting the Cost
- 8 Three Nuns' Accounts
- 9 Priests and Politics
- 10 Thomas Mallinger's Freiburg Chronicle
- 11 Gallus Zembroth's Allensbach Chronicle
- 12 The Memoirs of Colonel Augustin von Fritsch
- 13 The Memoirs of Colonel Robert Monro
- 14 A 'Myth of the All-destructive Fury'?
- 15 Why did they Write?
- 16 Historical Sources or Ego-documents?
- Appendix: Authors, Occupations and Locations
- Map: Homes of Civilian Eyewitnesses
- Bibliography
- Index of Eyewitness Authors
- General Index
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Yes, you can access Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48 by G. Mortimer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European History. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.