The Fall of the House of Habsburg Author:Edward Crankshaw The Fall of the House of Hapsburg traces the history of the Hapsburg monarchy from 1848 to 1918. The slow crumbling of the Empire from within is vividly portrayed against the background of international events and personalities: Cavour, Bismarck and Louis Napoleon; the 1848 Revolutions; the Italian Risorgimento; the Crimean War and the assassina... more »tion of Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo. In the centre of this large canvas of military and political events, there is the tragic, dignified figure of Franz Joseph, whose sixty-eight-year reign spanned the twilight of his dynasty.
Using many previously unavailable sources, Edward Crankshaw brings to life not only the princes, generals and statesmen, but also the common people and the culture of an Empire that once reached from Milan to the marches of Poland.« less