Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe - Simon Winder

For centuries much of Europe and the Holy Roman Empire was in the royal hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off—through luck, guile and sheer mulishness—any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe and Germany and interfered everywhere—indeed the history of Europe hardly makes sense without the House of Hapsburg.

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Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

data wydania

21 stycznia 2014

ISBN

9780374175290

liczba stron

576

język

angielski