The Thirty Year's War - Hardcoverby Samuel Gardiner (Author) A striking and engrossing account of one of the most devastating religious wars to ever befall Europe: the great Catholic Protestant clash which saw at least 40 percent of the population of Germany killed. The work's written style makes this book not a dry history but a dramatic and attention holding story, starting with an account of the origin of the conflict, and how these differences spiraled out of control into what