G. Parker - The Thirty Years War

The first edition of The Thirty Years' War offered an unrivalled survey of a central period in European history. Drawing on a huge body of source material from different languages and countries throughout Europe, it provided a clear and comprehensive narrative and analytical account of the subject. It has established itself as the classic text with reviewers, students and the general reader.

This second edition has been thoroughly revised to include the very latest research. The updated bibliographical information alone provides an invaluable resource, synthesizing the major work in the field in all languages, down to 1996.

Written with great clarity and liveliness, the book brings alive the period in all its aspects. It covers the horrors of the war and the contorted politics of the period. It deals with all the major figures, including Wallerstein and Richelieu, Gustavus Adolphus and Tilly, the Winter King and the Habsburg emperors. For range and depth of coverage there is no other work like it. It has become the definitive book on the subject.

Second edition

Edited by Geoffrey Parker
with contributions by
Simon Adams , Gerhard Benecke , Richard J. Bonney , John H. Elliot , R.J.W. Evans , Christopher R. Friedrichs , Bodo Nischan , E. Ladewig Petersen and Michael Roberts

First published 1984

Revised edition published 1987
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Second edition 1997
Reprinted 1998

Transferred to Digital Printing 2006

Geoffrey Parker 1984, 1987, 1997

Section I.iii Simon Adams 1984, 1987, 1997
Section II.ii Geoffrey Parker and Simon Adams 1984, 1987, 1997
Section II.iii E. Ladewig Petersen 1984, 1987, 1997
Section III.i R. J. W. Evans 1984, 1987, 1997
Section III.iii Gerhard Benecke 1984, 1987, 1997
Section III.iv John H. Elliott 1984, 1987, 1997
Section IV.i Bodo Nischan 1984, 1987, 1997
Section IV.iv Richard J. Bonney 1984, 1987, 1997
Section V.i Michael Roberts 1984, 1987, 1997
Section VI.ii Christopher R. Friedrichs 1984, 1987, 1997

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ISBN 0-415-15458-8 (hbk)
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Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent

'Well, since you aren't thinking about anything you can tell me the date of the signing of the Peace of Westphalia.'

Antoine neither moved nor answered. His father remonstrated in a shrill voice ... 'You hear that, everyone? He doesn't know the date of the Peace of Westphalia. He ought to be ashamed of himself.'...

The carriage was filled with a shocked silence. For her brother's benefit Lucienne mentally recited a prayer recommended by the Desmoiselles Hermeline as an aid to recalling the Great Dates of History. Frdric drew the figures in the air with his finger, and Mme Haudouin tried to catch her son's eye in order to comfort him with an affectionate smile. But Antoine, staring down at his boots, refused to see anything ...

Finally, Antoine's breast heaved with a sob... He gulped, and muttered in a stifled voice: '1648'.

Marcel Ay me, The Green Mare (New York, 1963), 100-1: set in the year 1885