The Thirty Years War By Asch Summary

The Thirty Years War was the last major war of the Protestant Reformation. The war took place from 1618 till 1648. The war began in the Holy Roman Empire and most of the war was actually fought in the Holy Roman Empire. The ruler of the Holy Roman Empire was catholic but the majority of the people he was ruling were Protestant. The Habsburg rulers granted Protestants toleration through a Letter of Majesty. Eventually when Ferdinand the second took over he revoked the Letter of Majesty which left the Protestants very angry. The Protestants grew angry and started defenestration, throwing the catholic messengers from windows. This eventually led to the Protestant being killed. Gustavus Aldophus from Sweden then came into the picture as an ally for the …show more content…
It described and explained how the Catholic rulers were not happy about the idea of the majority of the people they ruled were a different religion as they were, Protestant. This led to the whole Thirty years of fighting. The author was able to put himself in the era of the war and was able to narrate what went on during that period of time which made it able for me to understand what happened. Many other reviewers claimed that the book was hard to understand which I can see why they would say such a thing. Nevertheless I was fond of the war because of the facts the author portrayed. Asch wrote the book to specifically identify the main topics of the war, which were the Bohemian revolt, the Danish war and the Habsburg power over all, and the Peace of Westphalia. The author also wrote about how the French were financing the Swedish which was very important because the French were Catholic and I feel like that was kind of a “huh” moment to the readers. It kind of left them puzzled to why they would do that and that was to payback the Habsburgs which were rivals to the