So there I was, innocently going through my VHS and DVD collection, to figure out which ones I want to keep and which ones can go to the used book/media store or yard sale, when the mood struck me to watch Cyrano de Bergerac with José Ferrer again - definitely a keeper.
So far, so good.
For some reason, I've always been fascinated by the battle of Lützen, so those two kinda connected in some corner of my mind and I went in search of period figures in the 'front bedroom', which is really a (large) storage closet.
Came up with a couple of sets of ECW and a box of French Musketeers, watched the pirated copy of Alatriste I scored some time ago in the bargain section of a now defunct media store ( 1 disc, no menu, should be 2, but at $ 1.99, you don't argue) as well as Gustav Adolf's Page - which I probably saw sometime as a kid - on YouTube and find myself looking for TYW figures and background material.
Seems to be a little bit of a forgotten stepchild.
So far,I've unearthed Grimmelshausen's Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, The War Wolf, a general history book titled The Thirty Years War and the Alatriste series, plus the movies mentioned above.
Saw a few minutes of The last Valley on YouTube the other day, seemed a bit...odd, but maybe I didn't watch long enough.
Haven't researched the French side of things yet.
Any suggestions ?
English, German, French, Spanish or Swedish all ok, others less so, but still interesting.