books.google.com - 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. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Thirty_Years_War.html?id=XgtpAl8HzjcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Thirty Years War