The Fall of the House of Habsburg
by Edward Crankshaw
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Author: Edward CrankshawEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1983-01-27
ISBN: 0140064591
Number of pages: 420
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: Excellent history
Summary: 5 Stars
One of Crankshaw's best, this forthrightly conservative and sympathetic book is premised on the idea that, whatever its faults, Austria's solution to the problems of nationalism and the Balkans were not self-evidently worse than what followed in Europe. He's deliberately rebutting A.J.P. Taylor, as he also does in his biography of Bismarck.
But Crankshaw is too good a writer, and too intelligent, to beat a hobbyhorse. He writes magisterially of Franz Josef's reign and the many personalities who came and went. His description of the Franco-Austrian war is particularly good.
Readable and humane -- not to be missed by anyone who enjoys history.
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