Noctambulate: “God help those where Mansfeld comes!” In C. V. Wedgewood’s THE THIRTY YEARS WAR, a freebooting general and his mercenary army bring typhus and plague wherever they march, plundering villages, burning farms, wrenching Christ figures from church crucifixes and gibbeting them along the roadside.

“God help those where Mansfeld comes!” In C. V. Wedgewood’s THE THIRTY YEARS WAR, a freebooting general and his mercenary army bring typhus and plague wherever they march, plundering villages, burning farms, wrenching Christ figures from church crucifixes and gibbeting them along the roadside.