REFERENCES.
The following references are only a few of those easily accessible in libraries. The Cambridge Modern History (vol. 4) has a bibliography of some 3,000 works and brochures on the Thirty Years' War.
Bougeant. Histoire des Guerres et des Négociations qui précédèrent le Traité de Westphalie. Paris, 1751.
Bernard, Mountague. Four lectures in subjects connected with diplomacy. London, 1868, 8o. Lecture I is entitled "The Congress of Westphalia" (60 pp.); comparison with other congresses is made.
The Cambridge Modern History. The Thirty Years' War, Volume IV. Cambridge, 1906, III, 1,003 pages. It contains a most extensive classified bibliography of the war, filling 150 pages.
Freytag, Gustav. Bilder aus der Deutschen Vergangenheit. Includes chapters on Thirty Years' War.
Gindely, Anton. History of the Thirty Years' War. 2 volumes, New York, 1884.
Hausser, Ludwig. The period of the Reformation, 1517 to 1648 (translation). London, 1873, 8o, 456 pages.
Cust, Edward. Lives of the warriors of the Thirty Years' War. 2 volumes, 12o. London, 1865. The author is a military man.
Leclerc. Négociations sécrètes touchant la Paix de Muenster et d'Osnabrug.