Volume 24, Number 4 · March 17, 1977
Hobbist Man
By Christopher Hill
Wallenstein: His Life
by Golo Mann, translated by Charles Kessler
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 909 pp., $22.50
Wallenstein is one of the great mystery men of history. Born in 1583, a Czech subject of the Austrian Habsburgs, he rose to become the richest and most powerful man in Germany, commander-in-chief of the imperial army in the Thirty Years War, until 1634 when he was assassinated at the command of the Emperor Ferdinand II. But we cannot begin to understand Wallenstein without some understanding of the world in which he operated.
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