The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna Under Hitler

by Thomas Weyr

When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938, he called the city "a pearl to which he would give a proper setting." But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction--a physical, spiritual, and intellectual wasteland.
Here is a grippingly narrated and heartbreaking account of the debasement of one of Europe's great cities. Thomas Weyr shows how Hitler turned Vienna from a vibrant metropolis that was the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000FA4V32
• ISBN13: 9780195146790
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"