Playing for Time: Guido Schmidt and the Struggle for Austria

by Richard Bassett

Dapper, dynamic, overarchingly ambitious, Guido Schmidt was Austria's youngest and most controversial Foreign Minister. Corresponding secretly with G ring while betraying Axis secrets to Sir Robert Vansittart at the British Foreign Office, Schmidt ducked and weaved across a European landscape of increasing menace and treachery. Accompanying the Austrian Chancellor to Berchtesgaden in February 1938, Schmidt alone kept his nerve and negotiated an agreement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912945371
• ISBN13: 9781912945375
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Mount Orleans Press
• Length: 316 Pages