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| Title | The Thirty Years' War: 1618-1648 Epochs of history |
| Author | Samuel Rawson Gardiner |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 20, 2008 |
| Length | 237 pages |
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