The History of the Thirty Years' War
By Friedrich Schiller
- Release Date: 1805-05-09
- Genre: World History
This is is history book. The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by Schiller’s own interest in the question of human freedom and his rationalist optimism. Volume 1 covers the background of the war, through the Battle of Prague in late 1620.