The Warwolf: A Peasant Chronicle of the Thirty Years War - Couverture souple

Lons, Hermann

9781594162459: The Warwolf: A Peasant Chronicle of the Thirty Years War

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ISBN 10 : 159416245X ISBN 13 : 9781594162459

Editeur : Westholme Publishing, 2017

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The conflict that ravaged seventeeth-century Europe, as seen in a classic German novel—freshly translated
The Thirty Years War, fought between 1618 and 1648, was a ruthless struggle for political and religious control of central Europe. Engulfing most of present-day Germany, the war claimed at least ten million lives. The lengthy conflict was particularly hard on the general population, as thousands of undisciplined mercenaries serving Sweden, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and various German principalities, robbed, murdered, and pillaged communities; disease spread out of control and starvation became commonplace. In The Warwolf, Hermann L�ns's acclaimed historical novel, the tragedy and horrors of war in general, and these times in particular are revealed. The Warwolf, based on the author's careful research, traces the life of Harm Wulf, a land-owning peasant farmer of the northern German heath who realizes after witnessing the murder of neighbours and family at the hands of marauding troops that he has a choice between compromising his morals or succumbing to inevitable torture and death. Despite his desire for peace, Wulf decides to band with his fellow farmers and live like "wolves," fiercely protecting their isolated communities from all intruders. L�ns's brilliant portrayal of the two sides faced by any person in a moral crisis—in Harm Wulf's case, whether to kill or be killed—continues to resonate. Originally published in 1910 and still in print in Germany, The Warwolf is available for first time in English.

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Hermann Lons (1866-1914), a novelist and poet noted for his keen observations of the natural world, was killed early in World War I. Robert Kvinnesland is a past winner of the German Embassy Foreign Language Poetry Award. His translations have appeared in international historical and cultural journals.

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