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Wallenstein. ; The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

Albrecht Wallenstein was a legendary military commander and generalissimo of the Habsburg forces, yet was eventually assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand II. This accessible modern biography of Wallenstein for the English-speaking reader dispels the many historical myths surrounding this central character of the Thirty Years War.

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  • "Albrecht Wallenstein was a legendary military commander and generalissimo of the Habsburg forces, yet was eventually assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand II. This accessible modern biography of Wallenstein for the English-speaking reader dispels the many historical myths surrounding this central character of the Thirty Years War."@en
  • "Hauptbeschreibung Wallenstein (1583-1634) ist eine Ausnahmefigur, und bis heute unerklärlich: Begnadetes Militärgenie und kühl kalkulierender Unternehmer, oder aber ein von Horoskopen abhängiger Zauderer? Dem Kaiser und der katholischen Sache treu ergeben oder maßlos egoistisch, ein Verräter? Ihn umgeben bis heute viele Rätsel. Geoff Mortimer, ausgewiesener Spezialist für den Dreißigjährigen Krieg, gelingt es immer wieder, die Mythen und Rätsel um die Person Wallensteins, die zumeist schon zu Lebzeiten entstanden, zu relativieren und seinen widersprüchlichen Charakter neu zu erk."
  • "Albrecht Wallenstein was a legendary military commander and generalissimo of the Habsburg forces, yet was eventually assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand II. This accessible modern biography of Wallenstein for the English-speaking reader dispels the many historical myths surrounding this central character of the Thirty Years War. A minor Bohemian nobleman who within the space of a few years became a prince and one of the greatest landowners of his age; a military entrepreneur who twice saved the Holy Roman Emperor from disaster with armies he raised, financed and led, but was then twice dismissed; an able general who rescued the Empire from invasion by the Swedish King Gustavus II Adolphus, but was accused of planning to defect to the self-same Swedes; the emperor's commander-in-chief, but assassinated on the emperor's orders; a successful soldier who fell because he tried too hard to make peace; Wallenstein was all these things. Contemporary legends and propaganda were taken up by early biographers of this fascinating character to create a historical myth, elements of which are still present in many more recent accounts. In this book, Geoff Mortimer sets out to clarify the picture and to resolve the enigma."

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  • "Biography"
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  • "Biografieën (vorm)"
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  • "Elektronisches Buch"
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  • "Wallenstein : rätselhaftes Genie des Dreißigjährigen Krieges"
  • "Wallenstein : the enigma of the Thirty Years War"
  • "Wallenstein. ; The Enigma of the Thirty Years War"@en
  • "Wallenstein"@en
  • "Wallenstein the enigma of the Thirty Years War"
  • "Wallenstein the enigma of the Thirty Years War"@en
  • "Wallenstein : rätselhaftes Genie des Dreissigjährigen Krieges"
  • "Wallenstein the enigma of the thirty years war"
  • "Wallenstein Rätselhaftes Genie des Dreißigjährigen Krieges"
  • "Wallenstein : Rätselhaftes Genie des Dreissigjährigen Krieges"
  • "Wallenstein : the enigma of the thirty years war"

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