: The Enigma of the Thirty Years War G. Mortimer Palgrave Macmillan UK , Jul 16, 2010 - History - 286 pages 0 Reviews Albrecht Wallenstein was a legendary military commander and generalissimo of the Habsburg forces, yet was eventually assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand II. This accessible modern biography of Wallenstein for the English-speaking reader dispels the many historical myths surrounding this central character of the Thirty Years War.