![]() My book is the first full-length treatment of the conflict to appear for seventy years. ![]() Only now, with the proliferation of modern media images of more recent carnage, the memory of the Thirty Years War is fading. Seminal works of German literature-notably Friedrich Schiller’s trilogy about the imperial general Wallenstein, and Grimmelshausen’s Simplicius Simplicissimus, the first German novel which later formed the basis for Bertolt Brecht’s play, Mother Courage-enduringly placed the Thirty Years War in the popular imagination. ![]() It was ranked ahead of the Nazi era and the Black Death by late twentieth-century Germans as their country’s greatest disaster. The conflict left a deep imprint on European consciousness. This represents, proportionally, a far higher loss than that suffered in either world war. The Empire encompassed modern Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, parts of Denmark, France and Poland, and also held jurisdiction over northern Italy.Īround 1.8 million soldiers and at least 3.2 million civilians died in the Thirty Years War, reducing the Empire’s population by at least a fifth. ![]() ![]() The War was a struggle over the political and religious order in the Holy Roman Empire, Europe’s second largest state (after Russia, which was then generally not considered part of Europe). The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was the most destructive conflict in European history prior to the twentieth-century world wars. ![]()
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