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Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48

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  • © 2002

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  1. Geoff Mortimer

    1. St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. What Happened in the Thirty Years War?

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 1-14

  3. Sources, Authors and Texts

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 15-28

  4. Military Perspectives

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 29-44

  5. Civilian Perceptions

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 45-58

  6. Siege and Storm

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 59-70

  7. Faith and Experience

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 71-84

  8. Counting the Cost

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 85-95

  9. Three Nuns’ Accounts

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 96-111

  10. Priests and Politics

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 112-120

  11. Thomas Mallinger’s Freiburg Chronicle

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 121-129

  12. Gallus Zembroth’s Allensbach Chronicle

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 130-139

  13. The Memoirs of Colonel Augustin von Fritsch

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 140-150

  14. The Memoirs of Colonel Robert Monro

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 151-163

  15. A ‘Myth of the All-destructive Fury’?

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 164-178

  16. Why did they Write?

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 179-188

  17. Historical Sources or Ego-documents?

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 189-198

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 199-214
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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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'To sum up, the book is brimming with good ideas and information. In its class, it will not be superseded for years.' - Dr Peter Edwards, University of Surrey

'The writing is crisp and well organized...' - R.E. Schreiber, Choice

Authors and Affiliations

  • St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK

    Geoff Mortimer

About the author

GEOFF MORTIMER is Lecturer in German at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He gained a doctorate from Oxford University for his work on the Thirty Years War.

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