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Author | : Alan Palmer |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1997-02-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780871136657 |
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Presents a biography of the emperor of Austria as well as a history of Europe during his reign.
Author | : Sarah Gainham |
Publisher | : Atheneum Books |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Greg King |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250083036 |
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On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his seventeen-year-old mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera as she slept, sat with the corpse for hours and, when dawn broke, turned the pistol on himself. A century has transformed this bloody scene into romantic tragedy: star-crossed lovers who preferred death together than to be parted by a cold, unfeeling Viennese Court. But Mayerling is also the story of family secrets: incestuous relationships and mental instability; blackmail, venereal disease, and political treason; and a disillusioned, morphine-addicted Crown Prince and a naïve schoolgirl caught up in a dangerous and deadly waltz inside a decaying empire. What happened in that locked room remains one of history’s most evocative mysteries: What led Rudolf and mistress to this desperate act? Was it really a suicide pact? Or did something far more disturbing take place at that remote hunting lodge and result in murder? Drawing interviews with members of the Habsburg family and archival sources in Vienna, Greg King and Penny Wilson reconstruct this historical mystery, laying out evidence and information long ignored that conclusively refutes the romantic myth and the conspiracy stories.
Author | : Greg King |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2017-11-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1250083028 |
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From the authors of The Assassination of the Archduke comes a book about a shocking murder-suicide that ushered in the end of the Habsburg monarchy that had dominated Europe for centuries.
Author | : Zbyněk A. B. Zeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Zbyněk A. B. Zeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Zbyněk A. Zeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paula Sutter Fichtner |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780233140 |
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The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914 not only sparked the beginning of World War I—it also initiated the beginning of the end of the six-hundred-year-old Habsburg dynasty, which fell apart when the war ended, changing Europe forever. But how did the Habsburgs come to play such a decisive role in the fate of the continent? Paula Sutter Fichtner seeks to answer this question in this comprehensive account of the longest-lived European empire. Tracing the origins of the house of Habsburg to the tenth century, Fichtner identifies the principal characters in the story and explores how they were able to hold together such a culturally diverse and multiethnic state for so many centuries. She takes account of the intertwining of culture, politics, and society, revealing the strategies that enabled the dynasty’s extraordinarily long life: its dazzling mix of cultural propaganda, public performances, and cunning political maneuvering. She points out the irony that one of the crowd-pleasing performances that had enabled the Habsburg success—visiting beds of the injured—led to Ferdinand’s death and the empire’s downfall. Breathing fresh life into the history of the Habsburg reign, this accessible and authoritative history charts one of the pivotal foundation stories of modern Europe.
Author | : Bertita Harding |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1473384788 |
Download Imperial Twilight - The Story of Karl and Zita of Hungary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The start of World War I is seen as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria but who came after him in the line of succession. This is fascinating historical love story of the couple thrust into the limelight of the most turbulent years in European history. Karl and Zita would become the rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire but it was a royal family doomed to fail. An in-depth and gripping story that is often overlooked in the vast archive of work on the First World War.
Author | : Dominic Lieven |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1996-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312143794 |
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A biography of Russia's last monarch provides new insights into his infamous execution, his role as political leader and emperor, the Old Regime's collapse, and the origins of the Bolshevik Revolution