Soldiershop is proud to introduce the great book of the thirty years war on two volumes, Write, illustrated and entirely realized by Luca Cristini. The two volumes are both available on Soldiershop with a friendly discount of 10%. All of our copies are autographed by the author.
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This great job on the 30 years war is edit in Italian from Isomedia on two volumes in the format 21 x 29. Based on 12 chapters distributed on 224 pages the first vol. and almost 230 the second.
The first volume start with the history of beginning 1600 up to the death of Gustav Adolf king of Sweden in 1632.
The second goes to conclude with the peace of Westphalia and following appendixes (around 1650). Below we give a synthetic memorial on the present chapters in the books:
-Chapters 1 Beginning of the war
-Chapters 2 The Bohemianstage
-Chapters 3 The Palatine stage
-Chapters 4 Danish stage 1st part
-Chapters 5 Danish stage 2nd part
-Chapters 6 Swedish stage 1st part
-Chapters 7 Swedish stage 2nd part
-Chapters 8 Swedish stage 3rd part
-Chapters 9 French stage 1st part
-Chapters 10 French stage 2nd part
-Chapters 11 French stage 3rd part
-Chapters 12 The Westphalia Pax

Indexes: Of the chapters, Of the names of the characters, Of the places and towns, Of the tables and of the unpublished illustrations, Of the illustrations, Bibliography, Various notes and thanks
Inside this mighty job they find space 53 colour unpublished tables related to the regional maps, to the detailed maps of 10 battles accompanied by rich description and 35 tables devoted to the weapons, to the flags and the uniforms in use in the conflict.
Almost 500 rare and interesting illustrations inserted in the text, often of the XVII period complete the illustration patrimony of the books, and again different chronological tables or timeline of the treated period regarding the principal military political facts but also related to the circles artistic and scientific. 51 index card deepened on the most important characters and 11 devoted to the great artists of the epoch, well defined and complete analytical indexes a great deal for personality, places, bibliography etc. An elaborate search of graphic pagination. This and very other they make party of the outfit of this important volume devoted to XVII century first destination to 50 years of the modern history of the man. The first one in indefeasible ever written by an Italian writer and certainly among the more suits till now realized on the matter in Europe and in the United States.

Write by Luca Cristini, the publisher director of Soldiershop Publishing. Coauthor of the books on Prince Eugene and Spanish Succession war of our Soldier&weapons serie. Cristini is also the author of the book on Abyssinian war of 1935 and the new two on knight in tournament (S&W 004 and 005).