Author: G. Mortimer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-07-16

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0230282105

Albrecht Wallenstein was a legendary military commander and generalissimo of the Habsburg forces, yet was eventually assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand II. This accessible modern biography of Wallenstein for the English-speaking reader dispels the many historical myths surrounding this central character of the Thirty Years War.