<Li> Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series of alternative history novels, deals with a temporally displaced American town from the early 21st century that occupies territory in the early 1630s in war - torn Germany . </Li> <Li> Parts of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle are set in lands devastated by the Thirty Years' War . </Li> <Li> In The Hangman's Daughter (2008) by Oliver Pötzsch, the protagonist, hangman Jakob Kuisl, and other prominent characters have served in a General Tilly's army and participated in the sacking of the city of Magdeburg during the Thirty Years' War . "The Great War" and Swedish incursion into north - central Germany are frequently referenced . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein trilogy (1799) is a fictional account of the downfall of this general . </Li> <Li> Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) (act IV is set during the siege of Arras in 1640 .) </Li> <Li> Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children (1939), an antiwar piece, is set during the Thirty Years' War . </Li> </Ul>

England's involvement in the 30 years war