'Gaudy, wild, raw, amusing, rollicking and ragged, boiling with life, on intimate terms with death and evil - but in the end, contrite and fully tired of a world wasting itself ...

Mike Mitchell s translation of Simplicissimus was shortlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war ...

Simplicius, a rogue, traverses the tumultuous world of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

Simplex starts out in life as innocent as any child - even more so. But then the soldiers came. And Simplex takes his first stumbling step out into the wide world. He is ...