History of the Habsburg Empire : From Ottoman Waves on the Danube to the Thirty Years' War: Reformation, Succession Strife, and the Making of the Austrian Empire

History of the Austrian Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, as wave after wave of Moslem invasion rolled up the Danube, the long conflicts and bloody persecutions of the Reformation, the thirty years' religi