Thirty Years War Quotes

“The vast Lumpenproletariat, the product of the devastating Thirty Years’ War, the masses of morally depraved people, of beggars and tramps, accustomed to easy pickings—such was the reservoir from which the Prussian army recruited its soldiers.”
― Mark Borisovich Mitin, Marx and Engels on reactionary Prussianism,

“Even had a suitable Swede been available, it is unlikely Oxenstierna could have imposed him on the German generals. There was never any thought of giving command to Johann Georg of Saxony, whom Oxenstierna distrusted and despised as ‘an insignificant tosspot’.”
― Peter H. Wilson, The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy