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Gustavus Adolphus: How the Lion of the North Built a Military Empire and Changed the Course of the Thirty Years' War

Gustavus Adolphus: How the Lion of the North Built a Military Empire and Changed the Course of the Thirty Years' War

Myers, Eva

Paperback

Historical FiguresGeneral World HistoryScandinavian History

ISBN13: 9798196789861
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 13 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

He was seventeen years old, surrounded by enemies, and about to change the world.

In 1611, Sweden was a small, debt-ridden kingdom fighting three wars it could barely afford. Its new king had no military record, no guarantee of survival, and no margin for error. By the time he died at thirty-seven, he had built one of Europe's most feared armies, saved Protestant Christianity from collapse, and pioneered the military tactics that Napoleon would study two centuries later.

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