30YearsWar #49: The Peace in the East

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

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🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

With Denmark exiting the war in Germany, everything seemed to be looking up Ferdinand in spring 1629, but there was a problem. While on the military front, the Emperor still held the edge, on the diplomatic front, forces were conspiring to turn the war on its head. Cardinal Richelieu recognised that if Sweden and Poland could be brought to the peace table, Gustavus Adolphus would be free at long last to intervene in Germany.

Both the Swedes and the French went deeper than this, though. Each recognised that Russia, far to Poland's east, could play a pivotal role in occupying the attentions of the Commonwealth just long enough for Sweden to make history. But could it be done? Could these tangled diplomatic branches actually bear fruit? In fact, they proved central to ushering in the next phase of the Thirty Years' War...

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0:00.0	Thanks for your support on Patreon, Brennan Steele. Brennan was nominated personally by Cardinal Richelieu himself
0:07.7	to help mediate on France's behalf between Poland and Sweden, a successful decision because this led to the
0:14.5	truce of Altmark in 1629. Well done, Brennan. This of course is all a lie, but if you would like me to lie about you, you know where to go. Head on over to Patreon. More on that later, but for now enjoy this episode, episode 49 of the Thirty Years' War.
0:44.4	Hello and welcome history,, patrons, patrons all to the 30 years war.
0:47.4	I hope you're all doing well in 2022.
0:51.8	Hope you're not having too many parties and that you're being sensible.
0:53.9	Make sure it's a work event beforehand. I hope you had a great
0:54.8	holiday period and that you're looking forward to what 2022 is going to bring, because I can tell
1:01.0	you firsthand as a primary source in these matters, when diplomacy fails is going to go from
1:06.9	strength to strength this year. And a big reason for that is because we're going to be publishing an awful lot of stuff.
1:13.4	So keep an eye out for, in particular, the three matchlock books that will be completing
1:19.3	the first phase of this really exciting historical fiction series.
1:23.9	More on that later on.
1:25.3	But also keep an eye out for a reworked version of my 30
1:28.4	Years War book. Instead of it being one massive slab of 1200 pages, I'm going to separate
1:34.5	it into three different parts, with the first part being called War in the Age of Matchlock,
1:40.2	the second part, and the third part then being a, essentially a divided version of the 30 years war book so
1:47.7	yeah it's going to be really exciting to release these having bought the rights back from the publisher
1:53.2	i cannot wait to see what we do with them and yes of course i know what you're thinking right now
1:57.7	an audiobook for each of these three will, of course, be on the way.
2:02.6	So it's a busy time and a busy time in PhD land as well. But really, this is the home stretch, in a way.
2:10.6	Only 18 months of this PhD remains, unless something happens and I need to have another semester
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