Danubia, a personal history of Habsburg Europe, Simon Winder
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Danubia, a personal history of Habsburg Europe, Simon Winder
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eng
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Bibliography: p. [517]-528
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non fiction
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Danubia
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bibliography
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857266344
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Simon Winder
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a personal history of Habsburg Europe
Summary
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe and Germany and interfered everywhere - indeed the history of Europe hardly makes sense without them. Simon Winder's extremely funny new book plunges the reader into a maelstrom of alchemy, skeletons, jewels, bear-moats, unfortunate marriages and a guinea-pig village. Danubia is full of music, piracy, religion and fighting
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adult
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