The Last Hapsburg ~ Gordon Brook-Shepherd
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson‚ 1968‚ Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
*** First Edition ***

CONDITION NOTES

Very Good — in Good Dust Wrapper. A little wear to the edges of the dust wrapper with short tears to the top corner and join of the upper panel and the foot of the lower. Private book plate to the first blank verso. The contents complete‚ clean and tight.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Includes: Black & white photographs on individual leaves; Facsimiles; Top edge dyed Red; Illustrated lining papers; Frontispiece; Appendices (6);

From the cover: “The last of the Habsburg Emperors was not that venerable European legend Franz Josef‚ but his young great-nephew Charles‚ who succeeded in 1916‚ inheriting a world war as well as a heavy crown. Two years later‚ his eleven-nation Empire‚ broken on the battlefronts and disrupted within‚ lay in ruins around him. Twice he returned from his Swiss exile to Hungary in dramatic bids to regain at least his Magyar throne. When these last gambles had failed‚ he was taken‚ a captive of the Royal Navy‚ to final banishment in Madeira‚ where he died in broken-hearted poverty‚ aged only thirty-five.

To tell the tragic story of his life‚ Gordon Brook-Shepherd has had important new source material‚ kept secret ever since the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire fifty years ago. The Habsburg family papers have been made available to him‚ the first time they have been shown to any ‘outside eye’. Charles’ widow‚ the politically controversial ex-Empress Zita‚ has broken the silence she has maintained ever since going into exile in 1919. She has allowed some…

  • Cover art by John Curtis
  • 9¾” x 6¾”
  • (xiii) 358 pages.
  • Index.
  • Bibliography.
  • ISBN: 0-2971-7650-1
  • Dustwrapper over Red boards‚ with Gilt titling to the Spine.
  • Packed Weight: 1.60 Kg.



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