Why Wallenstein?

A missed turning in European history

I’m often asked about the title of this stack. As well as the name of this blog, Wallenstein’s Camp is the first of a trilogy of plays by Schiller, based on the last days of Albrecht von Wallenstein, Generalissimo of Imperial forces in the first half of the Thirty Year War (1618-48)

Hardly known now in the English speaking world, he was a figure of myste…