Timothy Snyder - The Red Prince The Fall of a Dynasty and the R
| Schrijver: | Timothy Snyder |
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| Titel: | The Red Prince The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe |
| ISBN: | 9780224081528 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Uitgever: | The Bodley Head |
| Bijzonderheden: | Goed, 2008, Gekartonneerd met stofomslag, 344p |
| Prijs: | € 15,00 |
| Verzendkosten: | € 3,50 (binnen Nederland) |
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This is the first ever biography of the extraordinarily colourful Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1947). Tattooed, bisexual, crossdressing, multilingual, he was a major - and symbolic - figure in 20th-century European culture and politics. Born into one of the great European dynasties with every expectation of a glittering future, instead he became a playboy in Paris during the 1930s and died - a spy for Britain - under interrogation in a Soviet prison. The arc of Wilhelm's life therefore describes the dying fall of the ancient regime - the Europe of his birth bears very little resemblance to that of his death.Operating largely in inter-war Europe, Wilhelm is like a Le Carre character - a prisoner of private impulses that drove him to a doomed secret war. To the history of the Second World War the book adds a detailed discussion of Hitler's confrontation with a particular object of his loathing - the Habsburg family. A major subject of the book is Soviet communism and it's effect on the individual; cf Vassily Grossman's Life and Fate and A Writer at War.
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