Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

by Simon Winder

Book Overview

A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of Germania 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374175292
• ISBN13: 9780374175290
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 551 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"