Summary
As the history books tell us, the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) was a conflict usually fought by mercenary armies principally on the territory of today's Germany, but also involving most of the major continental powers. It began as a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics, motivated in part to preserve the Habsburg dynasty.
New York University Professor Tony Judt has written a fascinating history about the aftermath of the 20th century's own Thirty Years' War (1914-1945). It was a war which began as a conflict between democracy and fascism in Western Europe and ended in a marriage of convenience between democracy and bolshevism against fascism. And then came the inevitable confrontation between Us and Them which is Mr. Judt's great story.See the full content of this document
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Sixty Years of Malaise, Decline
Mr. Judt's luminous reputation as an historian arises from these three great virtues: He is eminently readable, learned and topical. As for topicality, on a day when David Irving, the Holocaust denier, was convicted in an Austrian ...
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