Mike Mitchells new translation replaces S. Goodrichs 1912 version of the first German bestselling novel. Simplicissimus is the eternal innocent caught in the middle of the Thirty Years War. The novel follows a boy from the Spessart named Simplicius in the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War as he grows up in the depraved environment and joins the armies of both warring sides switching allegiances several times. Born to an illiterate peasant family he is separated from his home by forag