The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618 by Geoff Mortimer (Hardcover, 2015)

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As the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years War approaches, Geoff Mortimer provides a timely re-assessment of its origins. These lie mainly neither in religious tensions in Germany nor in the conflicts between Spain, France and the Dutch, but in the revolt in Bohemia and the famous defenestration of Prague. Geoff Mortimer 1. The Origins of the Thirty Years War? 2. An Inevitable War? 3. The Bohemian Context 4. Counter-Reformation 5. The Habsburg Brothers ' ' Feud 6. Matthias ' 's Reign, Ferdinand ' 's Succession 7. Insurrection 8. No Way Back 9. The Search for Allies 10. The Revolt Defeated 11. From Bohemia to the Thirty Years War 12. Epilogue