Wallenstein. The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

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  1. A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma Conventions, References, Author viii
  
  
  
  


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  2. No Great Expectations
  
  
  
  


• Early manhood


• Maturity


• Gradisca


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  3. A Scandal in Bohemia
  
  
  
  


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  4. Richer Than All His Tribe
  
  
  
  


• Minting money


• A man of property


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  5. The Fault Is Not in Our Stars
  
  
  
  


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  6. Some Achieve Greatness
  
  
  
  


• War without end


• A general and a duke


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  7. Go, Captain, Greet the Danish King
  
  
  
  


• The Dessau bridge


• 1626: A campaign and a conference


• 1627–28: Denmark and Stralsund


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  8. At the Parting of the Ways
  
  
  
  


• The Edict of Restitution


• An Italian entanglement


• The limits of power


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  9. The Wheel Is Come Full Circle
  
  
  
  


• Dismissal


• Intermezzo


• Resumption


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  10. Once More unto the Breach
  
  
  
  


• Wallenstein’s second army


• Towards confrontation


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  11. From the Fury of the Norsemen Deliver Us
  
  
  
  


• The Alte Veste


• Lützen


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  12. Of Peace and Other Demons
  
  
  
  


• Exile intrigues


• Fruitless endeavours


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  13. Decline and Fall
  
  
  
  


• The gathering storm


• Hope springs eternal


• Condemned unheard


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  14. Assassination Is the Quickest Way
  
  
  
  


• Death, a necessary end


• Aftermath


• Requiem


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  15. But Brutus Says He Was Ambitious
  
  
  
  


• References


• Bibliography


• Index