A review by capellan
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson

3.0

A dense and detailed account of the Thirty Years' War. Probably too dense and detailed actually, as the blizzard of place and person names becomes overwhelming at points. I think it would have been profitable to "lift up" the narrative to a more strategic level in many places. Certainly it would have been a good idea to include more strategic maps. Almost all of the maps in the book are of individual battles, and don't always do a very clear job at that. Having maps that put the battle sites in their wider context would have helped a lot.