{"product_id":"gustavus-adolphus-eva-myers-9798196789861","title":"Gustavus Adolphus: How the Lion of the North Built a Military Empire and Changed the Course of the Thirty Years' War","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe was seventeen years old, surrounded by enemies, and about to change the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1611, Sweden was a small, debt-ridden kingdom fighting three wars it could barely afford. Its new king had no military record, no guarantee of survival, and no margin for error. By the time he died at thirty-seven, he had built one of Europe's most feared armies, saved Protestant Christianity from collapse, and pioneered the military tactics that Napoleon would study two centuries later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew people know that the most peaceful nation in Europe was once its most feared empire. And fewer still know the name of the man who built it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGustavus Adolphus, the only Swedish king ever called \"the Great,\" did not just fight wars. He reinvented them. He created mobile artillery that changed battlefields forever, built a professional army using the church as his administrative backbone, and marched thirteen thousand men into the heart of a hostile empire when the Protestant cause was on the verge of total collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you are about to discover is how one man's extraordinary mind shaped the world you live in today, from the religious freedom embedded in modern constitutions to the military doctrine still taught in war colleges worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not just history. It is the story of genius under pressure, faith forged in fire, and a legacy that has never fully ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you have ever wondered how the modern world was made, this is where part of the answer lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eva Myers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798196789861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Eva Myers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801509966079,"sku":"9798196789861","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gustavus-adolphus-eva-myers-9798196789861","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}