The Thirty Years War, 1618 - 1648: The First Global War and the End of Habsburg Supremacy

by John Pike

The 'Defenestration of Prague', the coup d'etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War. When Habsburg Spain intervened in support of their Holy Roman Emperor relative, what had started as a localised political and religious dispute in Germany, transformed into a European and global conflict.

In seeking to exploit the Bohemian revolt, Spanish Habsburg revanchist ambitions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526775794
• ISBN13: 9781526775795
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 520 Pages