The Thrown Window That Started a War — and Ate a Generation
From Turning Points: World History · 4:11
Show by Madin Misan
It started with men thrown out of a window — and the war that followed ate a generation and redrew the map of Europe. Three men fell sixteen metres from Prague Castle in 1618 — and somehow, they all survived. But Europe did not.
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