books about: austro     books:       Austro-Hungarian Army Aircraft of World War I3 reviews Peter Grosz, George Haddow FLYING MACHINES PRESS, 2002 The Anatomy of Failure Why buy an expensive book about the air force of a country that doesn't exist anymore and was already in a state of terminal decline when the Wright Brothers first flew? For one thing, the Dual Monarchy produced a surprising number of airplane designs with interesting technical quirks (like a V-12 engine mounted sideways and driving outboard propellers from both ends of the crankshaft). For ...             The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Symbolism, Popular Allegiances and State Patriotism in in the Late Habsburg ... Berghahn Books, 2007 The overwhelming majority of historical work on the late Habsburg Monarchy has focused primarily on national movements and ethnic conflicts, with the result that too little attention has been devoted to the state and ruling dynasty. This volume is the first of its kind to concentrate on attempts by the imperial government to generate a dynastic-oriented state patriotism in the multinational Habsburg Monarchy. It examines those forces in state ...             Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-191810 reviews Istvan Deak Oxford University Press, USA, 1990 An essential work for historians of East Central Europe This excellent study by one of this country's leading historians of East Central Europe provides a key to understanding the fascinating and complex multi-national Habsburg monarchy through a close look at one of the very few institutions that held this sprawling empire together -- its army officer corps. Deak's social and political analysis of this group is as entertaining as it is insightful, ...             The Battle of Koniggratz: Prussia's Victory over Austria, 18661 review Gordon A. Craig University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003 The best English languge work on this subject Gordon Craig gives a clear and highly readable account of the most infuential battle of the 19th century. This should be required reading for anybody trying to understand modern German history. The author uses excellent source material to bring a contemporary narretive and evaluation to this historical milestone.             Austro Hungarian Aces of World War I (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 46)2 reviews Chris Chant Osprey Publishing, 2002 facsinating subject Osprey's series covers many interesting subjects but this is one of the best. If you are a Great War aviation buff check this out, its worth the money. Beautiful artwork about an unusual subject. I have the old Harleyford books about WW1 aircraft and this is just as interesting. Good asides about the Russian and Italian foes. Nice color detail for modellers. Get it.             Rethinking Vienna 1900 (Austrian History, Culture and Society, 3) Steven Beller Berghahn Books, 2001 Fin-de-siecle Vienna remains a central event in the birth of this century's modern culture. Our understanding of what happened in those key decades in Central Europe at the turn of the century has been shaped in the last years by an historiography presided over by Carl Schorske's Fin-de-siecle Vienna and the model of the relationship between politics and culture which emerged from his work and that of his followers. Recent scholarship, however, ...             Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War14 reviews John R. Schindler Praeger Publishers, 2001 A compelling reading I've just finished reading this book and it's excellent. I live in Gorizia, on the river Isonzo. I'm of course familiar with the history of the Italian front of WWI, and I know all of the places, the villages and the mountains mentioned in the book. However, when I started reading, I just couldn't stop: the book is fascinating and enlightens many aspects of the war which were obscure to me, esp. ...             The Austro-Hungarian Forces in World War I (2): 1916-18 (Men-at-Arms)6 reviews Peter Jung Osprey Publishing, 2003 The Forgotten Many I am writing this having a) had the book for some time now, and b) in response to the previous review. I found the book particularly informative - especially after "Armies in the Balkans 1914-18" - and, some minor details apart - a reasonable review of the Habsburg armies in the first half of the First World War. Re. the uniform plates, I agree entirely that they are excellent and well worth the ...             Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, the Middle East and Russia, 1914-19231 review Aviel Roshwald Routledge, 2000 the latest failures of multi-cultural empires This book--'Ethnic nationalism and the fall of Empires' shows that under the stress of war, elitism, the failure to create and foster common causality, and with no real goal, empires like the Russian Romanov State, the Ottoman Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, just will NOT survive. The lessons to be learned is that when there is either no common language, or the no attempt to ...             The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 186618 reviews Geoffrey Wawro Cambridge University Press, 1997 Well-written military history Sadly, there is a definite paucity of the published sources that deals with the Austro-Prussian war. Therefore, Prof. Wawro's The Austro-Prussian war is welcome edition .Even more this work is one of well-written military history that succeeds to balance out between readibility and informativeness. I especially like the layout and structure of the book.First three chapters the author covers ...             The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815-1918 (2nd Edition)5 reviews Alan Sked Longman, 2001 Woodrow Wilson's Crime Against Humanity Exposed What I am about to type concerning this book will be rather political, so I should make it clear at the outset that the author himself has no political axe to grind. He is simply examining and refuting some common misconceptions about the last century of the Habsburg Empire and the causes of it's fall. If that is what you are looking for, you could not do better than to read this book. This is ...             Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-191810 reviews Istvan Deak Oxford University Press, USA, 1990 An essential work for historians of East Central Europe This excellent study by one of this country's leading historians of East Central Europe provides a key to understanding the fascinating and complex multi-national Habsburg monarchy through a close look at one of the very few institutions that held this sprawling empire together -- its army officer corps. Deak's social and political analysis of this group is as entertaining as it is insightful, ...             The Uncrowned Emperor: The Life and Times of Otto von Habsburg4 reviews Gordon Brook-Shepherd Hambledon & London, 2004 Born to Be Emperor This is a fine biography of a man who, but for a World War, might have been an Emperor and King. Otto von Hapsburg, born in 1912,was the son of the last Emperor of Austria-Hungary. His parents were overthrown in late 1918 and young Otto, whose own memories of his childhood are astonishingly vivid, began a life of exile. Otto had every right to be bitter over the hand fate dealt him, but we see ...             Venice, Austria and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society) Kenneth M. Setton American Philosophical Society, 1991             Italian and Austro-Hungarian Military Aviation On the Italian Front In World War One Alexis Mehtidis General Data LLC, 2008 This is a revised and expanded edition of Italian Military Aviation in World War One, 1914-1918 (published 2004). The chapters on Italian anti-aircraft units and Austro-Hungarian military aviation serving on the Italian front during the war are completely new.             The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815 (New Approaches to European History)7 reviews Charles W. Ingrao Cambridge University Press, 2000 Great book on early Habsburg Monarchy This is a great book that covers in good detail the rise of Austria under the rule of the Habsburg monarchy from the 30 Years War to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Charles Ingrao gives great insight into the minds and personalities of all the Habsburg monarchs, including some of the less known ones like Ferdinand II and Joseph II. He explains how the nation had to develop from three kingdoms ...             Red Vienna: Experiment in Working-Class Culture, 1919-19341 review Helmut Gruber Oxford University Press, USA, 1991 Brian Wells, Esquire, reviews "Red Vienna" by Helmut Gruber This book is sub-titled "Experiment in Working-Class Culture. The book deals with the Austrian Social Democratic rule of the city government of Vienna, Austria from the 1919 downfall of the Habsburg Dynasty until 1934 when the Anschluss made Austria part of Nazi Germany. The city government of Vienna tried a number of reforms at this time to raise the standard of living of the people of the ...             The Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy 1867-1918. Andrs Gero Andrs Gero New Holland, 2008 The era of the Austro-Hungarian Empire occupying the second half of the 19th century is perhaps the most exciting period in the modern history of this region. In an atmosphere of increasing tension, as an empire doomed to collapse, it saw unparalleled economic, cultural and intellectual achievements, fundamentally influencing the cultures of the people and nationalities living there - both positively and negatively.This new study of the dual ...             What Life Was Like: At Empire's End : Austro-Hungarian Empire Ad 1848-1918 (What Life Was Like) Arthur Herman Time-Life Books, 2000 Emperor Franz Josef was in his study when word reached him that his son, Crown Prince Rudolf, had committed suicide. Ten years later, a young Italian anarchist stabbed the Emperor's wife to death. And sixteen years after that, the Franz Josef's nephew and heir would be gunned down by a Bosnian Serb in Sarajevo-the event that propelled Europe into the world war. The Emperor would not live to see the end of the conflict, nor the ...              search for books 1618-1815, 1815-1918, 1848-1918, 1867-1918, 1914-1923, 1919-1934, aircraft, allegiances, american, approaches, austro-hungarian, austro-prussian, experiment, forgotten, habsburg, hungarian, koniggratz, men-at-arms, military, monarchy, nationalism, patriotism, philosophical, political, rethinking, sacrifice, seventeenth, symbolism, uncrowned, working-class books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: The Hard Nut (Mark Morris Dance Group) we recommend The Anatomy of Failure leave a comment home  impressum - about us