Quote Originally Posted by zelda12
Was Gustav Adolphus the greatest General of the period.
It could be argued that it was Wallenstein who succesfully guarded the Habsburg front against Christian IV and became so prestigious that the territorial rulers forced the Emperor to depose him and reduce the size of the Imperial army. Wallensteins protracted campaign against Mansfeldt wasn't spectacular in the sense that it abounded in brilliant battles, but in the sense that it was a brilliant display of maneuvering skills, logistics, psychology and diplomatic skills typical of warfare in that period. German historian Golo Mann has written an exhaustive and utterly boring 1125-page biography of Wallenstein, a Bohemian eccentric who fought his own fears and preoccupations as well as his eternal - and eternally worsening - health problems as much as he fought the enemy.