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THE RED PRINCE
THE FALL OF A DYNASTY AND THE RISE OF MODERN EUROPE |
| By: |
Timothy Snyder |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0224081527 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780224081528 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
5 June, 2008 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
Tattooed, bisexual, crossdressing, multilingual, Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg was a major - and symbolic - figure in 20th-century European culture and politics. This is a biography of the Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1947). |
| Synopsis: |
This is the first ever biography of the extraordinarily colourful Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1947). Tattooed, bisexual, crossdressing, multilingual, he was a major - and symbolic - figure in 20th-century European culture and politics. Born into one of the great European dynasties with every expectation of a glittering future, instead he became a playboy in Paris during the 1930s and died - a spy for Britain - under interrogation in a Soviet prison. The arc of Wilhelm's life therefore describes the dying fall of the ancient regime - the Europe of his birth bears very little resemblance to that of his death.Operating largely in inter-war Europe, Wilhelm is like a Le Carre character - a prisoner of private impulses that drove him to a doomed secret war. To the history of the Second World War the book adds a detailed discussion of Hitler's confrontation with a particular object of his loathing - the Habsburg family. A major subject of the book is Soviet communism and it's effect on the individual; cf Vassily Grossman's Life and Fate and A Writer at War.This is a book of exceptional brilliance and originality - it cites documents from 20 archives and in 12 languages; each chapter title is a different colour. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
The Bodley Head Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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