Can anyone recommend to me...

[Brian Shanahan]

a good book on the Thirty Years war in english that is still in print. As far as I can find out there is none.
I feel that this is one of the most important periods in the shaping of modern Europe, as it settled the extent and the nature of the Reformaton, it esentially ended the era of dynastic powers (with the total eclipse of the Habsburg empires), and it settled the modern outlines of France and Germany the wo dominant players in modern Europe.

 

[Agent327]

There's at least three still in print: http://books.google.nl/books?id=Qwi...esult&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false

 

[Dachs]

Yeah. Of those, the Wedgwood one is the best narrative history, but it's written all old style like and obviously doesn't have the benefit of recent scholarship. Geoff Parker's is newer but still managed to miss the revolutionary shift in opinion on the effectiveness of the militaries in the Baltic littoral - so he's not all that up to date either, but from what I remember does a decent job at composing a work that goes farther than mere narrative. Those are the only two I've read within memory that are any good, and I'd recommend them both, but there's probably a more recent study out there, new interpretations and so forth.

 

[Brian Shanahan]

Thanks lads, now to see if I can find them in Cork, may have to steal some time in the UCC library.