Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss the Thirty Years War in the German lands
In this episode of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, author of A Brief History of Germany, talks to The Critic‘s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the origins and course of the Thirty Years War in the German lands.
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