Seller Inventory # 9780230272132īook Description Taschenbuch. A concise and accessible biography of Albrecht Wallenstein, legendary military commander and generalissimo of the Habsburg forces in the Thirty Years War and a major figure in European history 286 pp. In this book, Geoff Mortimer sets out to clarify the picture and to resolve the enigma. 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.

This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. In this book, Geoff Mortimer sets out to clarify the picture and to resolve the enigma.Book Description Taschenbuch. 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.

Wallenstein by Geoff Mortimer