Hello and welcome, history friends. Patrons all to a special 30 Years' War episode looking at, well,

why you'll be interested in this conflict and why I think it's worthy of your time. In this episode,

we go into some detail about the themes, the causes, the different actors involved in the war,

and we also have some discussion about the second world war why I think the 30

years war has been mostly eclipsed and why very few people know or care about it and why I think

this is a mistake a whole load of details such as those are on the way and by the end of this

episode you should be fairly confident that you will enjoy what we're doing here and when diplomacy fails.

If you think you will, make sure to check out the previous 43 episodes that have come before this one.

And keep an eye out for the next one, because they come out every two weeks.

I'm on holidays at the moment, you see, so during this week here, I thought i'd repurpose some of my old content which is

still perfectly good get rid of the old plugs and insert these new ones here such as for matchlock

and the embassy oh yeah i'm sure you've heard me talk about it to death by this point but just in case

you're completely unaware matchlock and the Embassy is historical

fiction and it's set during the Thirty Years' War. We follow Matthew Locke as he lands in Europe in 1622

to find out the truth about the brutal murder of his parents. You can follow this story along

and you can get in touch with me and all the usual social media channels. But if you'd like

to get the book itself, just click on the link in the description below and it'll bring you

to your preferred vendor. The support I've received from you guys for this new venture in

historical fiction has been so appreciated and really so surprising and so humbling. You'll

not be shocked to learn

though, I'm always eager for more support and more praise. If you've read it though and

you do enjoy it then please let me know. Reviews are really the lifeblood for independent authors

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