Description
It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph-and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more.
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.
Product Details
| Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
| Publish Date | March 25, 2014 |
| Pages | 416 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780306823268 |
| Dimensions | 8.9 X 5.9 X 1.2 inches | 1.1 pounds |
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Reviews
Costa Mesa Daily Pilot, 4/18/14
"The detail surrounding the many people involved in the slice of history building up to World War I is amazing...This book, with its accounts of the activities of many countries' politicians and the culture of Vienna at the time, explains what was going on so well that you almost feel as though you are there."
Huffington Post, 5/31/14
"A book about war and madness...A fascinating and well-written account of the social origins and context of [World War I]."
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