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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Fascinating Read,
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This review is from: Emperor Francis Joseph: Life, Death and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire (Hardcover)
Wonderful telling of the life of the last true Habsburg emperor. Although the author allows you to be sympathetic to Francis Joseph, he makes no excuses for his shortcomings as emperor as well. I bought this book as a guide for an upcoming trip to Austria and eastern Europe. It not only made me look forward to my trip but with the historical events that I got from this book in mind, I had a deeper perspective of the many sights that I visited on my trip. An fascinating read.
6 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Ripples of an Empire,
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This review is from: Emperor Francis Joseph: Life, Death and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire (Hardcover)
I found this novel to be an accurate novel of the last 100 years of the Hapsburg Dynasty and their trials, family sorrows and the effects of their autocratic power upon the people they governed throughout the late 19th and early 20th century. While i believe at times the Emperor felt he was ruling in the best interests of his loyal subjects that remains to be seen in the last part of the 19th century and of course leading up to that fateful day in June at Sarajavo when Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were murdered by an Anachists Bomb and set the tone for the debacle of World War I which of course destroyed the last remaining vestiges of European Autocracy and Dynastic inheritance. While i do favor people having a say in how they are governed it seems that when the monachy is overthrown as in Imperial Russia; the individuals that take over the rule are far worse than their "Annointed Predecessors" . After all the gulags of Josef Stalin were far worse than any "fortress" of the Tsars.
1 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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emperor francis joseph,
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have actually not been able to start reading but know by title, will be great. thanks.
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This review is from: Emperor Francis Joseph: Life, Death and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire (Hardcover)
I cannot write a review as I have not received my order yet. the order was shipped on january 30, with estimate arrival date March 08. My tracking number is GM01088134011894499. I tried your link WHERES MY STUFF but got nowhere.My credit card has alįready been charged with this item.Please advise if another arrival estimate. Thnk you
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Emperor Francis Joseph: Life, Death and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire by John Van der Kiste (Hardcover - September 25, 2005)
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