Any good podcasts/programs on the Defenestration of Prague and the 30 years war

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Imagine pointblank musket combat, followed by poking a guy with a sword til he bleeds Mortal Kombat style, then bashing him in the head with your helmet, whipping him, wrestling him, then stealing his clothes

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Okay, you've got two of my favorite baws here.

First, you've got the baw with the buzzsaw slung over his shoulder with the broadsword from hell:



And then you have the baw with the cat o' nine tails, running around the battlefield, whipping the shite out of people. It would be like running around Omaha Beach, towel snapping the Germans:

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Is this like the Annexation of Puerto Rico

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The Defenestration of Prague would be an awesome name for a football play

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The Defenestration of Prague would be an awesome name for a football play

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Or a good eastern European punk rock band.

I’m not sure about podcasts or documentaries on the Thirty Years War, but here are a few books that cover the time period of early modern warfare, that you are interested in:

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The most prominent historian of the time is Geoffrey Parker. He wrote a book called “The Military Revolution” which is one of the jumping-off points for study of early modern war. It doesn’t cover the Thirty Years War specifically as much as the general military trends around that time.

What I find interesting about the Thirty Years War is that there are relatively few histories on the war itself, compared to other wars. My guess is that the complexity of the war and the idea that it was multiple wars combined into one period makes it difficult to tackle. The most important idea, in my opinion, to remember about the Thirty Years War is that it was a stagnant war that was more about occupation than decisive fighting. The army sizes grew to enormous levels, but the battles usually featured only a fraction of those troops actually fighting. Thus, the majority of the troops occupied towns and exploited them. For mercenary companies and independent military contractors, this was a pretty good deal. But it didn’t last. Eventually, rulers figured out that they needed armies large enough to both occupy and attack, to crack fortified towns. That led to armies so huge and so influential that it bolstered absolute monarchy, the next big trend in European history.