Ebook {Epub PDF} Thunder At Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 by Frederic Morton

Thunder at Twilight is a twin to Frederic Morton's A Nervous Splendor in that both are historical accounts of brief periods in Vienna (A Nervous Splendor covers ; Thunder at Twilight runs from ), and both books climax in the death of the heir apparent to Emperor Franz Joseph I (the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf in ; the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in )/5. Frederic Morton's vivid portrait of antebellum Vienna begins with the intrigues and tensions roiling the Hapsburg capital in and ends with the breakdown of diplomacy among the Great Powers and the outbreak of war in the fall of Along the way, he introduces the reader to major historical figures of the twentieth century."―/5(43). Rather, he is writing primarily about Vienna in the lead up to the war, and as the subtitle says, Vienna in and , actually until Mid-August of Further, as the title (Thunder at Twilight) suggests, he is focusing on the coming end of the Hapsburg Empire.

Thunder At Twilight: Vienna / by Frederic Morton. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Thunder at twilight: Vienna User Review - Not Available - Book Verdict. Like the author's earlier A Nervous Splendour: Vienna (LJ 11/15/79), which focused on the suicide of the Hapsburg Crown Prince Rudolph, this social history of the same city focuses on the. Thunder at Twilight is a landmark of 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 that a young Stalin arrived on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first.

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 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. Thunder at Twilight is a landmark of 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 that a young Stalin arrived on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. Frederic Morton's vivid portrait of antebellum Vienna begins with the intrigues and tensions roiling the Hapsburg capital in and ends with the breakdown of diplomacy among the Great Powers and the outbreak of war in the fall of Along the way, he introduces the reader to major historical figures of the twentieth century."―.