How long does it take to read The Thirty Years War?
C. V. Wedgwood
The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood takes about 9 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 57 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1938. 543 pages, about 149,325 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 13 minutes |
The page count is the median across 29 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.
Subjects: History, Woodworking machinery, Habsburg, house of
