---

Court rulings, intrigues and affairs, poisoning and outright financial corruption are among the weapons that Schiller describes to render a vivid comprehension of this historical event to us.

---

"The 30-year war" was the occasion for Frederick Schiller to depict some of the great political and military leaders of this era. Indeed, Gustav Adolph and Wallenstein occupy a privileged part in the analysis of what constitutes a great leader, both on the battlefields and behind the scenes.

Nevertheless, an important profiling of so many men of power, particularly regents and war commanders, is dispersed all along this fabulous work, from the calm statesmanship of an Oxenstierna to the restless plotting mind of a Cardinal Richelieu, to provide us, beyond the historical events, the focus, above all, on an incredible pitfall of human quest for glory, power and possessions.

---

Schiller, Frederick
F. Schiller is a major figure of Enlightenment, who influenced many other philosophers, writers and statesmen and historians with his insightful rendition of such topics as the State, History, Religion, the Sublime. but also Love and Nature.

---