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Emperor Francis Joseph : Life, Death and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire [Hardcover]

John Van Der Kiste (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Sutton Publishing; illustrated edition edition (19 May 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0750937874
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750937870
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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In 1848, 28-year-old Francis Joseph became King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria. He would reign for almost 68 years, the longest of any modern European monarch. Focusing on the life of Emperor Francis Joseph and his family, this book examines their personal relationships against the turbulent background of the 19th century.

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John Van Der Kiste has written nearly 20 books on British and European royalty. His most recent are: 'William and Mary' and with Coryne Hall, 'Xenia: Sister of Nicholas' (June 2002. He also writes historical articles and reviews afor local and national journals. and contributed to the New Dictionary of National Biography.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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FRANZ JOSEPH was born 1830, became Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary 1848 and died 1916, properly the longest ruling European monarch.

His reign is one of the most remembered in Austria as its seems to spark public imaginations - desastrous wars, the "Ausgleich with Hungary", the beautiful and biazare Empress Elisabeth (Sissi)murdered by an anarchist, the only son and heir Rudolf who committed sucide and the second heir Franz Ferdinand, his nephew, gunned down by another anarchists triggering WW I, a changing world from 1830 till 1916 presided over by a seemingly unchangable Emperor-King. Duty above all. The Emperor himself becoming an icon, the one who had been always there and seems to be the only force to keep the forces at bay who wanted to destroy the monarchy. The last decades were like a dance on the vulcano.

John Van Der Kiste is one of my favorite authors and I have read most of his books. He can combine the political and human side of things in an highly readable and interesting way. Francis Joseph' s personality emerges. He can paint a picture of the man and the king-emperor, one does understand what he was about. It is vivid, lively and absorbing. A long-gone area is coming alive again.

It is interesting to observe how a monarch who did get the most important things not right, who was nevertheless hardly ever critizied as person, who gained an iconed status properly just for being around 68 odd years and doing till the last minute his duty could not ensure the survival of the institution he served so faithfully. Maybe an interesting parallel when judging present European monarchs?

All in all this is an excellent book! I enjoyed every page.

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Fascinating Read 9 Dec 2006
By dissolvedgirl - Published on Amazon.com
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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.
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Ripples of an Empire 13 Mar 2006
By Lenore Kerl - Published on Amazon.com
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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.
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emperor francis joseph 11 Jan 2007
By Klaus Hilbert - Published on Amazon.com
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have actually not been able to start reading but know by title, will be great. thanks.
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