Wallenstein

The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

By: Geoff Mortimer

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Paperback | 15 September 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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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'...thanks to his profound knowledge of the Thirty Years War and his wide reading of both the older and most recent historiography, he is able to offer a very informative, trustworthy and readable account of Wallenstein's life.' The Journal of Military History

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Conventions, References, Author	p. viii
A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma	p. 1
No Great Expectations	p. 6
Early manhood	p. 9
Maturity	p. 15
Gradisca	p. 18
A Scandal in Bohemia	p. 22
Richer Than All His Tribe	p. 35
Minting money	p. 38
A man of property	p. 41
The Fault Is Not in Our Stars	p. 52
Some Achieve Greatness	p. 68
War without end	p. 70
A general and a duke	p. 75
Go, Captain, Greet the Danish King	p. 82
The Dessau bridge	p. 82
1626: A campaign and a conference	p. 88
1627-28: Denmark and Stralsund	p. 95
At the Parting of the Ways	p. 106
The Edict of Restitution	p. 111
An Italian entanglement	p. 114
The limits of power	p. 117
The Wheel Is Come Full Circle	p. 123
Dismissal	p. 123
Intermezzo	p. 132
Resumption	p. 138
Once More unto the Breach	p. 139
Wallenstein's second army	p. 142
Towards confrontation	p. 147
From the Fury of the Norsemen Deliver Us	p. 153
The Alte Veste	p. 153
Lützen	p. 164
Of Peace and Other Demons	p. 177
Exile intrigues	p. 182
Fruitless endeavours	p. 186
Decline and Fall	p. 199
The gathering storm	p. 201
Hope springs eternal	p. 209
Condemned unheard	p. 213
Assassination Is the Quickest Way	p. 221
Death, a necessary end	p. 227
Aftermath	p. 232
Requiem	p. 238
But Brutus Says He Was Ambitious	p. 240
References	p. 254
Bibliography	p. 264
Index	p. 269
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