The Thirty Years War

The Thirty Years War by J. V. Polišenský, translated by Robert Evans, offers a sweeping reinterpretation of one of Europe’s most formative conflicts. Rather than treating the war as merely a clash of monarchs and generals, Polišenský situates it within a broader crisis of European society between 1560 and 1660. Drawing on newly available archival sources, he shows how political, religious, and economic tensions converged into a continent-wide struggle, with the Bohemian revolt at its core. ...