Before he wrote his Wallenstein trilogy, Schiller taught history at Jena and wrote this account of the conflict of 1618 to 1648. He traces the religious and dynastic quarrels that ignited Bohemia and Germany, the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus’s campaigns, and the rise and murder of Wallenstein.
Narrative history by a great dramatist, still readable for its portraits of the war’s leaders. Download the free EPUB.