Uncrowned Emperor: The Life and Times of Otto Von Habsburg - Hardcover

Brook-Shepherd, Gordon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852854391 ISBN 13: 9781852854393

Verlag: Hambledon Continuum, 2003

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Book by BrookShepherd Gordon

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The Austro-Hungarian Empire dominated central Europe until 1918, when the last Habsburg Emperor, Karl, fled into exile. Karl's death in 1921 made his nine-year-old son Otto head of the Habsburg family, a position he has now held for over eighty years. Born heir presumptive to an empire that stretched from the Tyrol to Transylvania, and from Poland to Sarajevo, Otto von Habsburg's life has both affected and been reflected in some of the most dramatic and historic events of the twentieth century. As a four year old in 1916 he walked in the funeral procession of the Emperor Franz Josef. Otto von Habsburg later became the focus of royalist loyalty, a Habsburg restoration attracting considerable political support until the Second World War. Refusing any contact with Hitler (whose code name for the Anschluss was Operation Otto), he fled first to France then America, where he formed a friendship with F.D. Roosevelt. Never living in the past, he later became a highly respected Member of the European Parliament.

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GORDON BROOK-SHEPHERD was the author of many books on Austrian history, including The Anschluss and Dollfuss. His distinguished career as a journalist included being deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraph.

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• Verlag: Hambledon Continuum
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1852854391
• ISBN 13: 9781852854393
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288