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Thunder at Twilight Vienna 1913/1914

From the author of A Nervous Splendor, a dazzling portrait of the epicenter of the apocalypse that was World War I.

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  • ""It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph-- and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more"--Page [4] of cover."
  • "From the author of A Nervous Splendor, a dazzling portrait of the epicenter of the apocalypse that was World War I."@en
  • "With a new introduction by the author marking the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I."@en
  • "A history of Vienna in the two years before World War I."
  • ""It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph-- and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more"--Page 4 of cover."@en
  • "Thunder at Twilight is a landmark of historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna - and in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph - and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more. -back cover."

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  • "Onweer in de schemering : Wenen 1913-1914"
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  • "Thunder at twilight : Vienna : 1913/1914"
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  • "Thunder at twilight : Vienna, 1913-1914"
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  • "Thunder at twilight : Vienna 1913-1914"
  • "Thunder at twilight : Vienna, 1913/1914"
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