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Wallenstein

The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

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Authors:
  1. Geoff Mortimer

    1. Oxford University, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 1-5

  3. No Great Expectations

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 6-21

  4. A Scandal in Bohemia

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 22-34

  5. Richer Than All His Tribe

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 35-51

  6. The Fault Is Not in Our Stars

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 52-67

  7. Some Achieve Greatness

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 68-81

  8. Go, Captain, Greet the Danish King

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 82-105

  9. At the Parting of the Ways

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 106-122

  10. The Wheel Is Come Full Circle

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 123-138

  11. Once More unto the Breach

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 139-152

  12. From the Fury of the Norsemen Deliver Us

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 153-176

  13. Of Peace and Other Demons

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 177-198

  14. Decline and Fall

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 199-220

  15. Assassination Is the Quickest Way

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 221-239

  16. But Brutus Says He Was Ambitious

    • Geoff Mortimer
    Pages 240-253

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 254-286
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Albrecht Wallenstein was a legendary military commander and generalissimo of the Habsburg forces, yet was eventually assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand II. This accessible modern biography of Wallenstein for the English-speaking reader dispels the many historical myths surrounding this central character of the Thirty Years War.

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'...thanks to his profound knowledge of the Thirty Years War and his wide reading of both the older and most recent historiography, he is able to offer a very informative, trustworthy and readable account of Wallenstein's life.' The Journal of Military History

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  • Oxford University, UK

    Geoff Mortimer

About the author

GEOFF MORTIMER studied history and German at Oxford University, where he also taught at St Edmund Hall. His publications include Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), Early Modern History, 1485-1815 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and a number of articles on this period.

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