World History. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very Good softcover. 316pp including

World History. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very Good softcover. 316pp including biographical essay, index of authors and a general index. This second edition has been thoroughly revised to include the very latest research. The updated bibliographical information provides an invaluable resource, synthesising the major work in the field, in all languages, up to 1996. Written with great clarity and liveliness, the book brings alive the period in all its aspects. It covers the horrors of the war and the contorted politics of the period. It deals with all the major figures, including Wallerstein and Richelieu, Gustavus Adolphus and Tilly, the Winter King and the Habsburg emperors. For range and depth of coverage there is no other work like it. It has become the definitive book on the subject.