EUROPE CRISIS 1598-1648 (Fontana History of Europe)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: September 27, 1979
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780006356707
First sentence: In 1643, as the English Civil War raged, a preacher informed the House of Commons in London that 'these are days of shaking...and this shaking is universal: the Palatinate, Bohemia, Germany, Catalonia, Portugal, Ireland, England'.