Austria Hungary


The Metamorphosis
The Radetzky March (Von Trotta Family, #1)
The Trial
The World of Yesterday
Embers (Vintage International)
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
The Man Without Qualities
They Were Counted
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938
The Fall of the House of Habsburg
Chess Story
Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
The Habsburg Empire: A New History
Radetzkymars by Joseph RothThe Last Queen by C.W. GortnerThe Assassination of the Archduke by Greg KingThe Reluctant Empress by Brigitte HamannMayerling by Fritz Judtmann
The Hapsburgs
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Walter Perrie
As the nineteenth century progressed, Austria-Hungary took refuge in reaction at home and adventurism abroad in an effort to contain the centrifugal forces which eventually blew it, and much of Europe, apart. Austria, and Vienna in particular, was the real home of Central-European anti-semitism. Jews wew bottom of the pile. No matter how low you sank, the Jews were still below you, along with the gypsies. At the tail-end of the nineteenth century, the Viennese politician Karl Lueger founded his ...more
Walter Perrie, Roads That Move: A Journey through Eastern Europe

In vielen österreichischen Einheiten sprachen Offiziere und Mannschaften unterschiedliche Sprachen. So berichtete der Stabschef des österreichischen I. Korps bei der Schlacht von Münchengrätz, dass das gemischte polnische und ukrainische 30. Regiment tapfer bis zum Einbruch der Dämmerung gekämpft habe, die Männer dann aber nicht mehr in das Lage gewesen seien, die pantomimisch erteilten Anweisungen ihrer Offiziere zu erkennen.
Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

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