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Peter H. Wilson is the author of the highly acclaimed Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War (2009). He is the Chichele Professor of the History of War at the University of Oxford.In his masterly study of the original "1,000-year Reich" (Hitler's was merely a grotesque caricature), the Oxford professor Peter H Wilson condenses a great deal of modern scholarship while wearing his learning lightly. -- Daniel Johnson * The Sunday Times *<br />Wilson's history represents the culmination of a lifetime of research and thought, and in its scope and depth of detail is an astonishing scholarly achievement. The author moves from the grand themes to detail with felicity. -- Jonathan Steinberg * The Spectator *<br />As vast and capacious as the empire it describes, his book is as definitive a study of its subject as one could hope to read...The Holy Roman Empire deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus. -- Tom Holland * The Telegraph *<br />He encourages us to reassess the history of Europe... Wilson makes the complex understandable. -- Christopher Kissane * The Guardian *<br />Peter Wilson is to be congratulated on writing the only English-language work that deals with the empire from start to finish and on the basis of staggering erudition. He will not thank anyone for saying so, but it is also a book that is relevant to our own times. -- Brendan Simms * The Times *<br />In this immensely detailed and surely definitive history, [Wilson] shows how central Europe's bafflingly intricate system, which lasted almost 1,000 years, worked, and why it mattered. His narrative takes in everything from the coming of the Reformation to the Thirty Years' War, but Wilson is really interested in ideas, not personalities. His account of kings and emperors, archbishoprics and free cities is a demanding but rewarding intellectual treat, like contemplating a fabulously intricate clockwork mechanism. * The Sunday Times Books of the Year *