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Title: SWEDEN'S HERO
Review: This is a concise biography of one of the few statesmen and generals of history who actually did live up to heroic reputations. It is written in the educated language of past generations (we had a immigrant pathologist in our laboratory recently who informed us he could not handle the English vocabulary and syntax that largely expired in the late twentieth century, which may explain the difficulty another reviewer had with this).Gustavus was admirable, to me, most of all for his Christian charity. His chief opponent, the count of Tilly - who had been responsible for the terrible massacres at Magdeburg and other cities in 1631 - was mortally wounded in early 1632. Gustavus sent his personal physician to Tilly in a vain attempt to save his life. (In contrast, when Gustavus lay wounded on the battlefield of Luetzen, Imperial soldiers, coming upon him, finished him with gunshots - as described in this short book and others, e.g., the Osprey series).
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