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"This book is absolutely seminal in content and scope. It may be as important, and in some ways more important, than Shrirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.""

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"In order to understand the nationalistic tendancies and how Germany started to become the power house of Europe at the turn of the 20th century, one must start right here, at the "Thirty Years Wars." I like to call it "Wars," simply because it was a 30 year period of wars, more than battles."