The Habsburg Twilight: Tales from Vienna
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 ...
This is fascinating historical love story of the couple thrust into the limelight of the most turbulent years in European history.
With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolis-Vienna on the brink of cataclysm.
This panoramic reappraisal shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered for so long to so many Central Europeans across divides of language, religion, and region.
10 , no . 4 ( 1988 ) , pp . 611-21 . Chapter 4 : Western Approaches 1. L. Cassels , Struggle for the Ottoman Empire , p . 110 ; Vandal , Une ambassade française , pp . 197 and 291 ; Kinross , Ottoman Centuries , p . 396 . 2.
A Habsburg Tragedy: Crown Prince Rudolf
Through a decade of research and interviews with the descendants of the Habsburgs, scholar James Longo explores the roots of Hitler's determination to destroy the family of the dead Archduke—and uncovers the family members' courageous ...
With sparkling, satirical prose, All for Love moves from one end of pre–World War I Europe to the other.
A New York Times bestseller, The Accidental Empress is the “captivating, absorbing, and beautifully told” (Kathleen Grissom) love story of “Sisi” the Austro-Hungarian empress and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph.