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Title: The Thirty Years' War by Geoffrey Parker, Simon Adams ISBN: 0-415-12883-8 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Stultifyingly Dull
Comment: The Thirty Years War is an area of study I really want to know more about. It is complex, and the political interactions of most of the nations of Europe make it a huge task to explain.
This book lacks. I'm sure the facts are complete and accurate, but the writing is as dry as week old toast. None of the personae came alive, and none of the facts were made memorable. I would recommend it as a reference, perhaps, but not as an interesting read on the subject. It sits on my shelf while I seek better written works to capture my interest.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent place to start
Comment: The Thirty Years' War was a very confusing conflict on many levels, and to attempt any account of it in barely 200 pages is almost foolhardy. But this book succeeds, at least in setting the stage and following the people and politics. It is a good place to start a study of the conflict. It is not a military history (there is a brief account of some specifically military aspects toward the end) nor a social history, and a great deal of detail had to be left out. But the basics of the war are there, which can be fleshed out with more extensive or specialist works.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent resource
Comment: Geoffrey Parker is excellent as usual, providing in-depth insight and an engaging style. Novices to the topic might also wish to consult his "Europe in Crisis" or "Dutch Revolt" texts. It's difficult to find a good and unbiased investigation into the Catholic/Habsburg side elsewhere. The "one star" review is a gross misjudgement - it goes without saying that a book of this type may be too complex for someone with no experience at all with the seventeenth century, but a history can't spend all of its time on explanatory hand-holding. As for stylistic criticism, it's difficult to find history as good as Parker's written as well, let alone better.
If Parker is too "complex," "boring" or "complicated," it is likely that the topic simply will not be of interest to you no matter who writes it. A 50 page chapter in a textbook is only a meaningless gloss.
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Title: The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648 by Richard Bonney ISBN: 1841763780 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Thirty Years War: The Holy Roman Empire and Europe, 1618-48 by Ronald Asch ISBN: 0312165854 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The European Dynastic States 1494-1660 (Short Oxford History of the Modern World) by Richard Bonney, J.M. Roberts ISBN: 0198730233 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Seven Years' War (Essential Histories, No 6) by Daniel Marston ISBN: 1841761915 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The European Reformation by Euan Cameron ISBN: 0198730934 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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