I was restraining myself in order not to mention Goodbye to All That, actually.:) *not influenced at all by having visited Mallorca two years ago, driving to Deira twice just to visit Graves' house*

Incidentally, the Thirty-Years-War produced some stunning and devastating poetry by Andreas Gryphius, but I don't think that has been translated into English. Though Grimmelshausen's novels "Simplicius Simpicissimus" or "Mother Courage" (yes, the basis for Brecht's play) might have been.