Danubia: A personal history of Habsburg Europe
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For centuries, much of Europe was in the hands of the peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off a number of rivals until finally packing up in 1918. Simon Winder's account of the rule of the Habsburgs plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages - and even a guinea-pig village.
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Danubia: A personal history of Habsburg Europe, Simon Winder
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- 2014
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- Title
- Danubia: A personal history of Habsburg Europe
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Simon Winder
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0330522795
- ISBN13
- 9780330522793
- Category
- World history
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- For centuries, much of Europe was in the hands of the peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off a number of rivals until finally packing up in 1918. Simon Winder's account of the rule of the Habsburgs plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages - and even a guinea-pig village.