Iron Princess - Amalia Elisabeth and the Thirty Years War

Informationen zum Autor Tryntje Helfferich Klappentext In the bloodiest conflict Europe had ever experienced, Amalia Elisabeth fought to save her tiny German state, her Calvinist church, and her children¿s inheritance. Tryntje Helfferich reveals how this embattled ruler used diplomacy to play the European powers against one another, while raising one of the continent¿s most effective fighting forces. Zusammenfassung In the bloodiest conflict Europe had ever experienced, Amalia Elisabeth fought to save her tiny German state, her Calvinist church, and her children’s inheritance. Tryntje Helfferich reveals how this embattled ruler used diplomacy to play the European powers against one another, while raising one of the continent’s most effective fighting forces.

Product details

• Authors: Tryntje Helfferich
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2013
• EAN: 9780674073395
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07339-5
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty, HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, military history, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, Biography: royalty, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Biography: historical, political and military, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)