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[T]he thesis has been that the Thirty Years War was a military-political conflict rooted in the past, in which two models of European civilization confronted one those represented by the lands in which development toward a modern capitalist society had been halted, with the lands in which the development had been allowed to proceed. The task of the present work is to prove this thesis and to fill in some of the blank spaces which still exist in our understanding of the conflict which we call the Thirty Years War. --- excerpts from book's Preface

Very readable history of Czech, Moravian and Slovak lands.