TY - BOOK AU - Wilson,Peter H. TI - The Thirty Years War: Europe's tragedy SN - 0674036344 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press KW - Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 KW - Europe KW - History, Military KW - 1492-1648 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict--a conflict that ultimately transformed the map of the modern world ER -