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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1963
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
421 p. illus. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
On June 28, 1914, in the dusty Balkan town of Sarajevo, an assassin fired two shots. In the next five minutes, as the stout middle-aged Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Habsburg, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife bled to death, a dynasty-and with it, a whole way of life-began to topple.
In the ages before World War I, four dynasties-the Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman, and Romanov-dominated much of civilization. Outwardly different, they...
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