Patrick Tulira writes narrative history and biography with a particular focus on the wars, courts, and calculated ambitions of early modern Central Europe. Drawing on years of independent research into the confessional and dynastic conflicts of the Holy Roman Empire, he brings a novelist's eye for character to the historical record, refusing easy verdicts on figures whose motives resist simple explanation. The Generalissimo's Fortune reflects his enduring fascination with the era's great self-made men - soldiers, financiers, and schemers who built extraordinary fortunes from chaos, and who paid, more often than not, a terrible price for it. He continues to research and write from his home in Ireland.