The book has its limitations in that it does not renew the vision of that time, which like every time (troubled or false light) has its areas of clarity and shadow areas often lie deep explanations. But as for the one who does not know this first ideological-political genocide of modern times that for one who has relatively strong knowledge but only a little to put in place the elements of the puzzle, the "honest" work is absolutely excellent. Clair little we shall focus precise, as complete as possible, delivering the best events, political events, religious perspective ... is the type of work that we need to (re) think our past who built our present and ACRE will remain in our future, beyond our own opinions and personal beliefs and political correctness distilled in the last salons where they cause.
I even wear a moral judgment. At the time of sanitized war where those who kill thousands of people no longer takes the risk on the battlefield but is sitting in his bunker in front of his computer control, the Thirty Years' War reminds us that the horror is unfortunately integral part of the Man and the prelude to the bloody mud of Verdun, the Holocaust, the millions of Soviet civilian victims of Stalin and the war in Vietnam and all recent genocides that dare not speak their name and are always the 'politically correct' certain groups. Read this book is to remember it.
I hesitated for a fifth star, because the book is altogether classic design and is nothing special to do it that stand out from the traditional excellence, so to speak. But in the field it addresses, this excellence is very difficult, so the fifth star is well deserved in my eyes.
