The History of the Thirty Years' War - Friedrich Schiller

The History of the Thirty Years' War

By Friedrich Schiller

  • Release Date: 1805-05-09
  • Genre: World History

Description

This is is history book. The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by Schiller’s own interest in the question of human freedom and his rationalist optimism. Volume 1 covers the background of the war, through the Battle of Prague in late 1620.