Imperial Twilight The Story Of Karl And Zita Of Hungary
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Imperial Twilight The Story Of Karl And Zita Of Hungary PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Imperial Twilight The Story Of Karl And Zita Of Hungary book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Imperial Twilight The Story Of Karl And Zita Of Hungary
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Bertita Harding
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-04-16
Imperial Twilight The Story Of Karl And Zita Of Hungary written by Bertita Harding and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The start of World War I is seen as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria but who came after him in the line of succession. This is fascinating historical love story of the couple thrust into the limelight of the most turbulent years in European history. Karl and Zita would become the rulers of the Austro-Hungarian empire but it was a royal family doomed to fail. An in-depth and gripping story that is often overlooked in the vast archive of work on the First World War.
Imperial Requiem
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Justin C. Vovk
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-06
Imperial Requiem written by Justin C. Vovk and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Augusta Victoria, Mary, Alexandra, and Zita were four women who were born to rule. In Imperial Requiem, Justin C. Vovk narrates the epic story of four women who were married to the reigning monarchs of Europe's last empires during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a diverse array of primary and secondary sources, letters, diary entries, and interviews with descendants, Vovk provides an in-depth look into the lives of four extraordinary women who stayed faithfully at their husbands' sides throughout the cataclysm of the First World War and the tumultuous years that followed. At the centers of these four great monarchies were Augusta Victoria, Germany's revered empress whose unwavering commitment to her bombastic husband made her a national icon; Mary, whose Cinderella story and immense personal strength made her the soul of the British monarchy through some of its greatest crises; Alexandra, the ill-fated tsarina who helped topple the Russian monarchy through her ineffective rule; and Zita, the resolute empress of Austria whose story of loss and exile captivated the world's attention for seven decades. Imperial Requiem shares the fascinating story of four princesses who married for love, graced imperial thrones, and watched as their beloved worlds were torn apart by war, revolution, heartache, and loss.
Russia And Eastern Europe 1789 1985
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Raymond Pearson
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1989
Russia And Eastern Europe 1789 1985 written by Raymond Pearson and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Europe, Eastern categories.
The Shadow Of The Empress
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Larry Wolff
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-02
The Shadow Of The Empress written by Larry Wolff and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-02 with History categories.
A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), featuring a mythological emperor and empress, premiered at the Vienna Opera. Viennese poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal and German composer Richard Strauss created Die Frau ohne Schatten through the bitter years of World War I, imagining it would triumphantly appear after the victory of the German and Habsburg empires. Instead, the premiere came in the aftermath of catastrophic defeat. The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy explores how the changing circumstances of politics and society transformed their opera and its cultural meanings before, during, and after the First World War. Strauss and Hofmannsthal turned emperors and empresses into fantastic fairy-tale characters; meanwhile, following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy after the war, their real-life counterparts, removed from political life in Europe, began to be regarded as anachronistic, semi-mythological figures. Reflecting on the seismic cultural shifts that rocked post-imperial Europe, Larry Wolff follows the story of Karl and Zita after the loss of their thrones. Karl died in 1922, but Zita lived through the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the Cold War. By her death in 1989, she had herself become a fairy-tale figure, a totem of imperial nostalgia. Wolff weaves together the story of the opera's composition and performance; the end of the Habsburg monarchy; and his own family's life in and exile from Central Europe, providing a rich new understanding of Europe's cataclysmic twentieth century, and our contemporary relationship to it.
Three Plays Of Maureen Hunter
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Hunter, Maureen
language : en
Publisher: OIBooks-Libros
Release Date : 2003
Three Plays Of Maureen Hunter written by Hunter, Maureen and has been published by OIBooks-Libros this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Drama categories.
Book is clean and tight. No writing in text. Like New
Imperial Twilight
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Bertita Harding
language : en
Publisher: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
Release Date : 1939
Imperial Twilight written by Bertita Harding and has been published by Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Austria categories.
The Fall Of The Dynasties
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Edmond Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-11-17
The Fall Of The Dynasties written by Edmond Taylor and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with History categories.
“Popular history of the finest sort . . . an excellent book worthy to rank with Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August and Alan Moorehead’s Gallipoli.” —The New York Times On June 28, 1914, in the dusty Balkan town of Sarajevo, an assassin fired two shots. In the next five minutes, as the stout middle-aged Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife bled to death, a dynasty—and with it, a whole way of life—began to topple. In the ages before World War I, four dynasties—the Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman, and Romanov—dominated much of civilization. Outwardly different, they were at bottom somewhat alike: opulent, grandiose, suffocating in tradition, ostentatiously gilded on the surface and rotting at the core. Worse still, they were tragically out of step with the forces shaping the modern world. The Fall of the Dynasties covers the period from 1905 to 1922, when these four ruling houses crumbled and fell, destroying old alliances and obliterating old boundaries. World War I was precipitated by their decay and their splintered baroque rubble proved to be a treacherous base for the new nations that emerged from the war. “All convulsions of the last half-century,” Taylor writes, “stem back to Sarajevo: the two World Wars, the Bolshevik revolution, the rise and fall of Hitler, and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East. Millions upon millions of deaths can be traced to one or another of these upheavals; all of us who survive have been scarred at least emotionally by them.” In this classic volume, Taylor traces the origins of the dynasties whose collapse brought the old order crashing down and the events leading to their astonishingly swift downfall. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
language : en
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Release Date : 1971
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and has been published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Copyright categories.
New York Times Saturday Book Review Supplement
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939-12
New York Times Saturday Book Review Supplement written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939-12 with Books categories.
Omnibook Magazine
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1942
Omnibook Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1942 with categories.