Wallenstein. The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

228 Wallenstein his anger in threats against the House of Austria. He may well have done so, and he had cause enough, but it als ...

Assassination Is the Quickest Way 229 A clandestine assassination with explanations afterwards looked a safer prospect, but rais ...

230 Wallenstein was to ensure that there was no noise to disturb the general. Ilow and Tr c ˇka were another matter, determined ...

Assassination Is the Quickest Way 231 overtaken and struck down, while Ilow managed to wound Leslie in the hand before he too fe ...

232 Wallenstein report: ‘You evil, perjured, rebellious old scoundrel.’ Wallenstein made at most the one-word reply ‘Quarter’ an ...

Assassination Is the Quickest Way 233 news that the generalissimo had finally broken with the emperor, although in fact he was a ...

234 Wallenstein just as though he had done nothing’.^21 Naturally Gallas, Piccolomini and Aldringer, having carefully taken no p ...

Assassination Is the Quickest Way 235 to depend on her relatives for two years, until after eventually making an appeal for clem ...

236 Wallenstein by killing the offenders, and as such they were not to be punished but rewarded as liberators of the fatherland. ...

Assassination Is the Quickest Way 237 emperor that Wallenstein had burned six hundred documents in Eger on the day before he die ...

238 Wallenstein The most credible explanation for Piccolomini’s reticence is that he knew much of the information he had provide ...

Assassination Is the Quickest Way 239 had already left and were held instead at Mies, where the general and his escort had halte ...

240 15. But Brutus Says He Was Ambitious ( Julius Caesar) The aura of myth surrounding this lord is so strongly imbued that I ca ...

But Brutus Says He Was Ambitious 241 A considerable literature followed, most famously Schiller’s play in 1799, but continuing u ...

242 Wallenstein pre served, tends to assume a disproportionate significance in the eyes of later historians. Secondly the volume ...

But Brutus Says He Was Ambitious 243 the former’s death and until shortly before his own death respectively. Much has been said ...

244 Wallenstein symptoms of growing stress and depression are clearly discernible. He had always had a sharp and unbridled tongu ...

But Brutus Says He Was Ambitious 245 the other captured Bohemian exiles go free.^11 This may be considered alongside Sigmund Smi ...

246 Wallenstein considerable prosperity, and in part to Wallenstein through the result- ing rents and taxes, which he in turn re ...

But Brutus Says He Was Ambitious 247 allowing Protestant worship to continue undisturbed and even bringing in a Protestant as hi ...