Twilight of the Habsburgs
Title | Twilight of the Habsburgs PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Palmer |
Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1997-02-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780871136657 |
Presents a biography of the emperor of Austria as well as a history of Europe during his reign.
Twilight of Empire
Title | Twilight of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Greg King |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2017-11-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1250083036 |
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.
Twilight of the Habsburgs
Title | Twilight of the Habsburgs PDF eBook |
Author | Zbyněk A. B. Zeman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Emperor Francis Joseph
Title | Emperor Francis Joseph PDF eBook |
Author | John Van der Kiste |
Publisher | Sutton Publishing |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780750937870 |
In 1848, 28-year-old Francis Joseph became King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria. He would reign for almost 68 years, the longest of any modern European monarch. Focusing on the life of Emperor Francis Joseph and his family, this book examines their personal relationships against the turbulent background of the 19th century.
The Habsburgs
Title | The Habsburgs PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Sutter Fichtner |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2014-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1780233140 |
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.
The Fall of the House of Habsburg
Title | The Fall of the House of Habsburg PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Crankshaw |
Publisher | Viking Adult |
Pages | 506 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Austria |
ISBN |
Emperor Franz Josef's struggle to hold a polyglot nation together.
Nicholas II
Title | Nicholas II PDF eBook |
Author | Dominic Lieven |
Publisher | St. Martin's Griffin |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1996-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780312143794 |
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