SUMMER OF FIRE AND BLOOD: THE GERMAN PEASANT'S WAR.
Code: C217
Price: £30
Category(s): New Books, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century,
544pp., 28 illus. 2025. The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as thousands of people massed in armed bands to demand a new and more egalitarian order.