??igo de Balboa, Captain Alatriste's fourteen-year-old page, accompanies the captain to the Dutch city of Breda, to wage war and participate in the Spanish siege against the city, in the name of King Phillip IV and Catholicism.
Chronicles the causes and events of the Thirty Years' War, a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics fought between 1618 and 1648; and describes the impact the war had on the development of warfare and the military revolution.
Freedom and justice--American style--are introduced to the Thirty Years War when a cosmic accident lands a portion of rural medieval Europe in Grantsville, West Virginia in the middle of mine worker Mike Stearn's sister's wedding.
Chronicles Mother Courage as she trails the armies back and forth across Europe selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon during the thirty years war.
A translation of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht's work in which a seventeenth-century woman, "Mother Courage, " accompanied by her children, pulls a trading wagon throughout wartorn Europe and becomes a symbol of human suffering and endurance.
