Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 by Frederic Morton [Paperback]

Description: "Thunder at Twilight" is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna--and in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph--and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more. With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolis--Vienna on the brink of cataclysm.

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EAN: 9780306823268

UPC: 9780306823268

ISBN: 9780306823268

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Book Title: Thunder at Twilight : Vienna 1913/1914

Number of Pages: 416 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Hachette Books

Item Height: 1 in

Topic: Europe / Austria & Hungary, Modern / 20th Century, Military / World War I, Europe / General

Publication Year: 2014

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: History

Item Weight: 17 Oz

Author: Frederic Morton

Item Length: 9 in

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Trade Paperback