Making five centuries of Habsburg history fun seems like a tall order, but Winder pulls it off. He entertains because he is entertained. His sprawling history of a dynastic empire that began in the ...
According to its apparently dubious charter, the royal House of Habsburg emerged from an obscure canton in present-day Switzerland in the early 11th century—several decades before the Norman conquest ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Almost six centuries after the Habsburg family seat was established in Vienna by the arthritic Albert the Lame, ...
History of the Austrian Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, as wave after wave of Moslem invasion rolled up ...
The Habsburgs. By Martyn Rady. Allen Lane; 416 pages; £30. To be published in America by Basic Books in August; $32. THERE WERE early hints that the union of Philip of Habsburg with Juana the Mad ...
Standing in line to buy the tour ticket to Konopiste, the Bohemian castle where Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria spent his last days before departing for Sarajevo, I let my mind wander: What if the ...
Full disclosure: I ate their lunch, and so I’m guilty as charged if accused of biting the hand that fed me. Or maybe “snapping at” would be a better term, since I don’t expect to tear flesh or draw ...
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 ...