Sen o odplatě - Dramata třicetileté války 1618-1648 – Fukala Radek (2025)

The Turkish danger and developments in the Netherlands were among the most important events of the early 17th century, but only until the moment when the Czech Protestant nobles carried out the defenestration in 1618. This Prague demonstrative reaction to the Habsburgs' efforts towards absolutism, centralism, and re-Catholicization unleashed a massive avalanche of accumulated problems throughout Europe.
Thus began the Thirty Years' War – a harrowing conflict about which so much has already been written. Against the backdrop of a Europe-wide war frenzy, a multitude of dramatic events unfolded. Thirty years of battles, disputes, diplomatic negotiations, intrigues, defeats, and victories took their toll. The daily struggle for survival inevitably marked the mindset of all. During these unfortunate years, their attitudes transformed in social, political, economic, cultural, and last but not least, military aspects. The Thirty Years' War changed Europe. This vivid depiction of the unfulfilled dream of revenge introduces readers to the brutal course of the war, the great figures of constantly shifting confrontations, and the hopes and fates of Czech, Moravian, and Silesian emigrants.