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# Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution

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    Great Read - Focused on Zizka - Jumps Around Thematically
  

*by D***Y on Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2014*

This relates to the Kindle Version.I am no great student of military tactics, nor am I familiar with the history of the Czech people. I found this book mentioned in the footnotes of some Wikipedia article that I stumbled onto and decided to give it a read.If you have no idea about the background, the countless religious and political leaders mentioned in background chapters is a bit dizzying, but in the end it doesn't really matter that much because once the narrative finally turns to Zizka and his military campaigns, you realize you don't need to understand all the context to appreciate the man's genius.It was obvious that the author's intent was to catalogue everything that is known about Zizka's life which can been supported by evidence, clarifying which parts of the story are apocryphal, fabrication and/or propaganda. In this respect, the author is quite successful. However, Zizka kept no memoirs, so we aren't able to get a really good look "inside" Zizka's head, which is unfortunate. This is no shortcoming on the author's part, and I actually appreciate that he didn't try to fill in the details with his own fanciful interpretations, as had been done in previous centuries.The thing that I thought was odd was that we got our description of Zizka's war tactics early on in the book, but it was after giving the background and well before launching into Zizka's military narrative. And then the descriptions of most battles summarized tactics generally and didn't work them into the actual battles at all. I don't know. It just seemed that Zizka's genius could have been more effectively conveyed if at least one battle was described in greater detail. Maybe there are not enough historical documents to accomplish such a thing and he felt it best to speak in generalities when describing each conflict.Thematically, the book seemed to jump around a bit. It seemed like it was researched really well but planned out in clumps.Overall though, this book was a great first foray into the genre for me and I really liked it. I would definitely consider reading some related titles to try to flesh out my understanding some more.

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    A Much-Needed Book Covering a National Hero of the Czech Republic
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2009*

This is an excellent introductory book on the Great Czech/Bohemian hero Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution.  Although I would not describe this work as scholarly, the Hussite movement and its place as the first successful Protestant rebellion in the Reformation is extremely important in European and religious History.  The military leader that made this possible was Jan Zizka, who was able to forge an army out of peasants, devise new or improved military arms (such as flails and war wagons), develop new tactics, and defeat superior forces through discipline, training, effective tactics and leadership time and time again.  This is all the more remarkable as Zizka possessed only one eye before becoming completely blind for his last three years of campaigning, during which time he achieved some of his most remarkable victories.  I can name no other commander in history who was even marginally effective after becoming blind, let alone extremely successful and repeatedly victorious.  There is much to learn in this book in regards to religious and national revolutions.  The Hussite movement splintered multiple times into almost irreconcilable religious factions, and rabble rousers and charismatic leaders were the order of the day.  Almost without exception they were dogmatic in their beliefs, and their actions would have doomed Bohemia to utter destruction had not Zizka been able to help patch over differences to fight common enemies.  Nonetheless, eventually the Hussites were their own worst enemies due to their internal politics, willingness to give opponents the benefit of the doubt in accepting their word, and allowing minor theological points to divide them.  The Hussite's Roman Catholic enemies, kings, nobles, clergy and the Pope, resorted to any and all tactics, fair and foul to suppress them.  Time and again pledges were broken by Catholics following the reasoning that a pledge make to a heretic was not valid or enforceable.  Gee, I wonder where Europeans got the idea they could do the same to the Indians of America.  Repeatedly the same individuals broke their promises and either burned their captives to death or threw them down mine shafts.  In fact, burning at the stake or jamming prisoners in churches or other buildings and setting them on fire were common methods of execution.  And in the face of all this, the Hussites repeatedly accepted promises by Catholic prisoners, particularly nobles, and set them free to fight again and kill more Hussites.  If there were ever examples that mercy in war is counterproductive, the Hussite wars fill the bill.  This is a book that can be read in a few hours, and the footnotes are mostly explanatory descriptions.  Reference footnotes or endnotes are absent.  There are relatively few references, and the author points out that primary sources are very scarce.  After the Battle of White Mountain in 1620 during the Thirty Years War, Protestant Bohemia was re-Catholicised, and Catholic forces and clergy, most notably the Jesuits, destroyed everything could find concerning Bohemian history and the Hussites.  As usual, the world is poorer for such book-burnings in the name of religion.  Today, 56% of the citizenry of the Czech Republic claim to be atheists.  The flock has flown.  Jan Hus and Jerome of Prague, of course, were lured to councils with false promises and burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities.  There is much to learn here, and I highly recommend this book to all.  The only reason I downgraded it from 5 to 4 stars is the lack of references that would allow readers like me to check on various points and conduct further research.

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    Some history you may have missed
  

*by A***O on Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2011*

A fantastic book about the leader of the Hussite wars - named as such for the martyring of Jan Hus by the Roman Catholic leaders in Bohemia in the 1400s.  Zizka was a military genius who was appointed to his post after the King's death, a few years after Hus' martyrdom.  He led mostly peasants and lower middle class people to victory over and over again against the corrupt Roman Catholics of Bohemia, Hungary, and Germany, and other areas as they attempted to invade and squash these pre-reformation people (they cried out against the corruption in the Roman Catholic church 100 years before Martin Luther).  In fact, Zizka never lost a single battle even though he was almost always outnumbered by 3, 5 or even 7 to 1.  He developed weapons that farmers and peasants could use including a mobile "tank-like" vehicle made from wooden wagons.  The Hussites developed an aura of invincibility that was so dominant that even after Zizka died and 200,000 German soldiers showed up to invade Bohemia, the Hussite army of only 15 to 20 thousand scared them away as they approached.  Zizka was a one-eyed general who lost his remaining good eye late in his life (by a stray arrow during a battle).  However, he continued to lead his men to many more victories as a blind general.  This is an wonderful story for military and religious history aficionados.

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