Three Decades of Tragedy: A History of the Thirty Years War

Welcome back! This week we finish with the Peace of Prague and the issues that came with it. This peace would set some ground rules, but it wouldn't be as simple as the emperor wanted. Ferdinand and t...

25 Maj 202313min

Welcome back! This week we do more coverage of some of the warfront and move onto the Peace of Prague, which is the negotiations between the crown and the German princes. It was a major shift, and it ...

11 Maj 202318min

Welcome back! This week we cover the continuing war and the Rhine campaign that involved pretty much all the major players in some form. It won't be the last campaign on the Rhine, but this was the be...

26 Apr 202311min

Welcome back! This week I cover France's foreign policy and the escalating tension and conflict between France, the HRE and Spain. Adding another person to this war only made things even more complica...

12 Apr 202312min

Welcome to Season 4! We begin with an intro to France and the effective leader of France, Cardinal Richelieu. We have talked about France in other episodes, but now is the time to give them a full bac...

30 Mars 202317min

Welcome back! This week we finish this season of the podcast as this phase of the war comes to a close. Its been a long few years and very destructive, but Sweden was no longer the only big player on ...

22 Feb 202316min

Welcome back! I'm sorry about the audio quality, I had some issues with my mic. Trying to figure out why it's peaking so much. But for the episode, we get to the climactic Battle of Nordlingen, a turn...

9 Feb 202310min

Welcome back! This week we finish Wallenstein's fall, the general taking his final bow before the curtain falls. After all of the setup for his fall and recent failings, he finally was no longer to be...

25 Jan 202310min