Wallenstein. The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

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vi Contents A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma Conventions, References, Author viii No Great Expectations E ...

vii List of Illustrations Maps and plans The Holy Roman Empire, c.1630 x The battle at the Alte Veste 159 The battle of Lützen ...

viii Conventions, References, Author Conventions Dates given in this book are ‘new style’ according to the Gregorian calendar. R ...

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x 0 100 100 NORTH SEA DENMARK HOLSTEIN Weser Weser Rhine SAXON LOWER WESTPHALIA CIRCLE Hanover The Hague Osnabrück UNITED PROVIN ...

xi SWEDEN Copenhagen POEL Stralsund WismarWolgast Stettin Werben Berlin Frankfurt/ Oder Dessau Halle Leipzig NaumburgLützen Dres ...

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1 1 A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma (Churchill) An enigma, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is ‘a puzz ...

2 Wallenstein powerful that even the emperor hesitated to cross him. This power was an illusion, as Ferdinand exploited the mili ...

A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma 3 Early in 1634 a secret report claimed that Wallenstein was preparing a coup d’é ...

4 Wallenstein of a Christian emperor.’^3 In another paradox Wallenstein, the leading Catholic general, became something of a pos ...

A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma 5 intended to provide a modern interpretation for the English-speaking reader. In ...

6 2. No Great Expectations (After Dickens) Monarchs apart, the early lives of the great of the medieval and early modern periods ...

No Great Expectations 7 appearing in historical works as early as 1640, and as such is adopted here.^1 Bohemian aristocracy the ...