The Habsburgs, Europe’s most durable, powerful dynastic family, held sway from the late Middle Ages till the end of WWI, ruling lands that now comprise 19 modern countries. Penguin UK editor Winder ...
Death is called the great equalizer. And while everyone must die, if you’re a Holy Roman Emperor eternal rest comes with some elaborate, bronze-plated perks. Since 1633, dearly departed members of the ...
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe By Simon Winder Farrar, Straus and Giroux 560 pages, $30 By Edward Cuddihy NEWS BOOK REVIEWER British author Simon Winder mapped out quite ...
From the 13th century till the end of World War I, a Habsburg ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Vienna as its capital city. For a couple of centuries, another branch of the family ruled the ...
Six days after the death in 1922 of his father—Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs—little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius ...
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