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Wallenstein: His Life Narrated

At the time of the Thirty Years War, Albrecht von Wallenstein became the supreme commander of the armies of the Habsburg Monarchy and became one of Europe's most powerful princes and one of the most important figures to emerge from the turmoil of the Thirty Years War.

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