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I am currently reading this book and finding it very readable and informative. The dynasty of the Habsburgs and the eventual Austro-Hungarian Empire is one of the least focussed political entities existing at the start of the 1st World War. This is probably because Britain had less direct military contact with it than Germany despite the well known trigger to the start of WW1 being the assassination of the heir to the imperial throne, the Archduke Ferdinand. However, putting aside the fact that it was in alliance with Germany and other enemy nations, the history of this empire is probably unique in as much as it was an empire of many much smaller European nationalities subject to the Emperor in Austria. This was latterly extended to include Hungary which at one time was simply a subject nation. This eventual Dual Monarchy seemed to work with the rest of the smaller countries and territories continuing in their former status. This book reveals what has been described as a 'supra-national' empire both successful in its longevity but with its accompanying tensions. In some ways it was stuck in its ways but in other ways, it was successful. It gave us the music of the Strauss family, the work of Freud and despite being a collection of nationalities, a pretty loyal military. Much of it's pros and cons can be attributed to its last major emperor Franz Joseph. He was succeeded briefly by the next in line, Charles but with the suing for peace terms came the eventual collapse of this long lived empire. This book reveals in very readable detail the beginnings, the changes, the influences and the way the personal characteristics of different emperors had on Austria and its subject nationalities. I have no hesitation in thoroughly recommending this book.
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Excellent history
8 Feb 2008
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One of Crankshaw's best, this forthrightly conservative and sympathetic book is premised on the idea that, whatever its faults, Austria's solution to the problems of nationalism and the Balkans were not self-evidently worse than what followed in Europe. He's deliberately rebutting A.J.P. Taylor, as he also does in his biography of Bismarck.
But Crankshaw is too good a writer, and too intelligent, to beat a hobbyhorse. He writes magisterially of Franz Josef's reign and the many personalities who came and went. His description of the Franco-Austrian war is particularly good.
Readable and humane -- not to be missed by anyone who enjoys history.
But Crankshaw is too good a writer, and too intelligent, to beat a hobbyhorse. He writes magisterially of Franz Josef's reign and the many personalities who came and went. His description of the Franco-Austrian war is particularly good.
Readable and humane -- not to be missed by anyone who enjoys history.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
A little special pleading but still good
9 Jan 2008
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Edward Crankenshaw's sympathetic history of the last decades of the Habsburg Empire is an excellent and informative read and good to keep along side the equally good but slightly too harsh history by AJP Taylor. The one criticism of the book is that the author shows an obvious sympathy with the dynasty rather than simply relating the story. Comments on the Hungarians and reference to their manipulation and abuse of the 1867 Compromise to their own benefit are spoken in a censorious manner. The facts may be true but the Hungarians had a number of good reasons for not being crazy about the Empire or its ruling dynasty. To expect anything other than temporary and conditional loyalty from them is expecting too much from a nation the dynasty would have destroyed if it could.
44 of 56 people found the following review helpful
B.Wells, Esquire, reviews The Fall of the House of Habsburg
13 Dec 1997
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This is a marvelous little history of one of the great royal dynasties of Eurpoe which came to an end with the First World War.
Proof of the universal appeal of this book and Crankshaw's writing style lies in the fact that this reviewer has read the book at three different times in his life (once as an undergraduate, another time at the conclusion of law school and yet another time about a year ago). Even though each of these three readings occurred at times when the reviewer's outlook and background on the subject matter was quite different, he derived pleasure and something new with each reading.
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