Which is why it’s a surprise that at the end of it, the thing that captured my attention was Peter H Wilson’s mammoth 700 page history of the Holy Roman Empire. I loved his book on the Thirty Years War and so at some point picked this up. Continue reading →

For those of you not familiar with the Thirty Years War (aka, the most interesting war), it took place for 1618-1648 and involved almost all of Europe, though mainly what was Central Europe of the time, or the Holy Roman Empire (not quite Germany, but including lots of what would become Germany). Continue reading →