{"product_id":"the-thirty-years-war-paperback","title":"The Thirty Years War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. V. Wedgwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnthony Grafton\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEurope in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCicely Veronica Wedgwood \u003c\/b\u003e(1910-1997) was born into an innovative and intellectual English family. Her father, a direct descendant of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, was the chief general manager of the London and North Eastern Railway and her mother was a novelist and travel writer. After success at Oxford, Wedgwood rejected an academic career and took up writing instead. She published her first history, \u003ci\u003eThe Thirty Years War\u003c\/i\u003e (1938), before her thirtieth birthday, and in the years that followed wrote a succession of chronicles of seventeenth-century Europe that made her one of the most popular and best-known historians in Britain. Her most important works include \u003ci\u003eThe King's Peace\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe King's War\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWilliam the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, 1533-1584\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 1944. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, a Dame of the British Empire, and in 1969 became the third woman to be appointed a member of the British Order of Merit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Grafton\u003c\/b\u003e is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Correction in Renaissance Europe\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 536\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.92 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978507092269,"sku":"9781590171462","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/RzJjYW1HV290N1p0U2djSytKWEJkUT09.webp?v=1775805534","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-thirty-years-war-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}