Gordon Brook-Shepherd était un historien et journaliste britannique, réputé pour ses travaux sur l'histoire de l'Europe centrale et orientale. Ses écrits sont appréciés pour leur profondeur analytique et leurs explorations perspicaces des dynamiques politiques et sociales de la région. Brook-Shepherd s'est concentré sur des moments clés et des figures influentes qui ont façonné l'histoire européenne moderne. Son expérience journalistique a souvent nourri ses récits historiques, leur conférant une lisibilité captivante et une pertinence contemporaine.
With a lifetime's personal intimacy with the country, friendships with several of its Chancellors, and access to private Habsburg family archives, Brook-Shepherd traces the identity of a nation over a millennium at the heart of Europe's political existence. 24 pp of photos & maps.
"The Austro-Hungarian Empire dominated central Europe until 1918, when the last Habsburg Emperor, Karl, fled into Exile. Karl's death in 1922 made his nine-year-old son Otto head of the Habsburg family, a position he has now held for over eighty years. Born heir presumptive to an empire that stretched from the Tyrol to Transylvania, and from Poland to Sarajevo, Otto von Habsburg's life has both affected and been reflected in some of the most dramatic and historic events of the twentieth century." "As a four year old he walked in the funeral procession of the Emperor Franz Josef in 1916. Otto von Habsburg later became the focus of royalist loyalty, a Habsburg restoration attracting considerable political support until the Second World War. Refusing any contact with Hitler (whose code name for the Anschluss was Operation Otto), he fled first to France then America, where he formed a friendship with F. D. Roosevelt. Never living in the past, and always promoting the interests of the peoples of the old empire, he became a highly respected Member of the European Parliament."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
This work presents the story of the secret war waged by Western intelligence against the Bolsheviks in Russia from 1917. The author asks what if the Western secret services had actually captured Lenin? The text offers the pace of a thriller involving colourful superspies and an interesting twist.
Die beste einbändige Geschichte Österreichs, erzählt in britischer Tradition von einem der versiertesten Kenner des Donauraumes. Eine Kombination aus wissenschaftlicher Forschung, persönlicher Erfahrung und Kenntnis von Land und Leuten, die über den enormen Reichtum dieser vielfach miteinander verwobenen Regionen Auskunft gibt.
