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Oxfam music shop reading rubinstein*, mozart*, alfred wallenstein ?-Â mozart concertos 21 and 23 label:rca victor red seal ?-Â sb- format:vinyl, lp, test pressing, stereo country:uk released: genre:classical style:classical see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The war was both a religious and a political one and it was this tangle of motives that made it impossible to stopoxfam bookshop shaftesbury winner of the society for military history distinguished book award the horrific series of conflicts known as the thirty years war () tore the heart out of europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all germans and laying waste to whole areas of central europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recoveredwilson's great strength is in allowing the reader to understand the tragedy of mixed motives that allowed rulers to gamble their countries' future with such horrifying resultssee oxfam website for delivery information read morewhether motivated by idealism or cynicism, everyone drawn into the conflict was destroyed by itat its end a recognizably modern europe had been created but at a terrible price book condition very good, covers and spine unmarked and all pages crisp and cleanpeter wilson's book is a major work, the first new history of the war in a generation, and a fascinating, brilliantly written attempt to explain a compelling series of eventsthe principal actors in the drama (wallenstein, ferdinand ii, gustavus adolphus, richelieu) are all here, but so is the experience of the ordinary soldiers and civilians, desperately trying to stay alive under impossible circumstancesall the major european powers apart from russia were heavily involved and, while each country started out with rational war aims, the fighting rapidly spiralled out of control, with great battles giving way to marauding bands of starving soldiers spreading plague and murder
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