Vienna, 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna
- ISBN-10
- 0307337170
- ISBN-13
- 9780307337177
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 434
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Author
- David King
Description
Details the 1814 Congress of Vienna, offering portraits of the participants and discussing the political intrigues, illicit affairs, tangled alliances, and bitter rivalries that marked the occasion that transformed the face of nineteenth-century Europe. Reprint.
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