Mühlberg

"I came, I saw, and God won", such were the words of Carlos V after the battle of Mülhberg. Because Mülhberg was more than just a battle: historically it was the highest point of the empire, and at the same time the beginning of the decline of the emperor. This story begins on the banks of the Elbe River. One, occupied by the Spanish imperial troops, led by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba; the other, by the Lutherans, commanded by John Frederick of Saxony. And soon the strong current of the Elbe, shrouded in mist, will be stained with blood... But this is not only the novel of facts, raw, latent, still alive, but of unforgettable characters, beyond the great names that They have gone down in history: the soldiers Cristóbal de Mondragón and his friend Diego Cubero, who faces death with the help of the prostitute Dorothea; Baltasar Carrillo, a Cadiz arquebusier thirsty to kill Lutherans, and his compadre, more thoroughgoing, Íñigo Mendizábal; the spy Norbert Bachmann, an intelligent mercenary, or Barthel Strauchmann, an inhabitant of Mülhberg to whom the Imperials will owe their victory... They are just a few, but there are many more. And they are worth knowing.