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The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke de Timothy Snyder

The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke

Autor Timothy Snyder
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 sep 2010

From the bestselling author of On Tyranny, the definitive biography of Wilhelm Von Habsburg, enigmatic and eccentric archduke of Austria.

"Not often does scholarly history soar and entrap like a fine historical novel, but here it does." -Foreign Affairs

Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, and every so often, a dress. After his youthful dream of a Ukrainian kingdom collapsed following the First World War, Wilhelm was, by turns, an ally of German imperialists, a notorious French lover, an angry Austrian monarchist, a calm opponent of Hitler, and finally a spy against Stalin.

In The Red Prince, acclaimed historian Timothy Snyder offers an indelible portrait of a man who embodied the many contradictions of twentieth-century Europe, a figure whose journeys spanned the continent and whose politics and ambitions united the old order of empire with the new politics of the nation-state.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780465018970
ISBN-10: 0465018971
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: maps & photos
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Basic Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Descriere

Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress. He could handle a saber, a pistol, a rudder, or a golf club he handled women by necessity and men for pleasure. He spoke the Italian of his archduchess mother, the German of his archduke father, the English of his British royal friends, the Polish of the country his father wished to rule, and the Ukrainian of the land Wilhelm wished to rule himself. In this exhilarating narrative history, Prize-winning historian Timothy D. Snyder offers an indelible portrait of an aristocrat whose life personifies the wrenching upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century, as the rule of empire gave way to the new politics of nationalism. Coming of age during the First World War, Wilhelm repudiated his family to fight alongside Ukrainian peasants in hopes that he would become their king. When this dream collapsed he became, by turns, an ally of German imperialists, a notorious French lover, an angry Austrian monarchist, a calm opponent of Hitler, and a British spy against Stalin. Played out in Europe's glittering capitals and bloody battlefields, in extravagant ski resorts and dank prison cells, The Red Prince captures an extraordinary moment in the history of Europe, in which the old order of the past was giving way to an undefined future-and in which everything, including identity itself, seemed up for grabs.

Notă biografică

Timothy Snyder is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the winner of the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association for The Reconstruction of Nations and the Pro Historia Polonorum for Sketches from a Secret War. The Red Prince was selected as the Best Book in the field of Ukrainian history by the American Association of Ukrainian Studies. His latest work is Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.