The Battle of the White Mountain 1620 and the Bohemian Revolt, 1618-1622

By:

Laurence Spring

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Century of the Soldier

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The Battle of the White Mountain and the Bohemian Revolt, 1618-1622 looks not only at the battle of the White Mountain, but also the campaigns and events leading up to the battle, such as the Bohemian Army's march on Vienna, the sieges of Pilsen and Bautzen and the battle of Zablat. These events are often described using the words of the protagonists themselves. It also examines the armies that took part in these campaigns, the soldiers from which came not only from Bohemia, but also Britain, the Dutch Republic, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, Poland, Spain, the Spanish Netherlands and Transylvania. However, even before the battle of the White Mountain the seeds had been sewn for the war to last 30 years and such was the Emperor Ferdinand's Counter Reformation policy that when the sword which executed some Bohemian rebels when on display in the nineteenth century it had to be removed for fear of a public disturbance and has been compared with the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazi Germany in 1938. Therefore this book is essential reading to anyone interested in the wars of the early seventeenth century, not just the Thirty Years War. 8pp colour plates, 26 b/w ills

Author Biography:

Laurence Spring studied at the Universities of London and Aberystwyth. He is also a qualified archivist, and has worked for many years at the Surrey History Centre. He has researched the early seventeenth century for many years and has written on various aspects of the English Civil War and the Thirty Years War, including the armies of Sir William Waller and the Earl of Manchester. He has also written books on the Russian Army during the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars and articles for Surrey in the Great War website.##His other books for the ‘Century of the Soldier’ series, The First British Army, the army of the Duke of Buckingham, 1624-1628 (2016) The Bavarian Army, the Backbone of the Catholic League (2017) The Battle of the White Mountain and the Bohemian Revolt (2018) In the Emperor’s Service, Wallenstein’s Army, 1625-1634 (2019) and The Campaigns of Sir William Waller (2019). He also contributed the chapter, ‘For God Sake Come Home, Soldiers’ wives, 1620-1660’ to the Helion’s Home and Away, The British Experience of War, 1618-1721. The proceedings of the 2017 Helion’s Century of the Soldier Conference.

Release date Australia

May 15th, 2018

Author

Laurence Spring

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

8pp colour plates, 26 b/w ills

Pages

164

Series

Century of the Soldier

ISBN-13

9781912390229

Product ID

27585252

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