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Thunder at Twilight

Vienna 1913/1914

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Thunder at Twilight

Von: Frederic Morton
Gesprochen von: Arthur Morey
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 Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna—and in the life of the twentieth century.

It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph—and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more.

With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolis—Vienna on the brink of cataclysm. Europa Neuere Welt Österreich & Ungarn
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one of the best books I listened to on audible. moving, insightful, engaging, knowledgeable, compassionate, relevant. book that combines politics, history, anthropology, psychology, fiction. One knows the end of the story - assassination of Franz Ferdinand and his wife, declarations of wars and ensuing tragedies of WW I, WW II. But seeing, understanding, sensing the humanity of Archduke through the eyes of the author, the efforts of this arrogantly and insensitively ridiculed victim to prevent War, one stalls, reluctant to move to this inevitable catastrophe. This is the book that should be read and studied at universities, military academies, should be a must for those who want to be civilian or military leaders. and the author’s insight into our (populace’s, crowd’s, people’s) desire for destruction, violence against others but unavoidably self. the importance of independent thinking and contemplation. a fantastic book! It is a pity Mr. Morton passed away in 2015, his thoughts about the current state of our affairs would have been valuable. by referring to “you are fired” at the end of this book he prophetically infers the arrival of Trumpism two years before the first fateful elections of 2016.

A fantastic book, interesting and relevant

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I truly enjoyed this book. It follows the lives of many historic personalities that conveyed in Vienna in the two years right before WWI.

Interesting book about Vienna right before WWI

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Morton's way of writing is so beautiful and his grasp of his subject matter so awe inspiring. It was the best book I've heard/read in a long time.

wonderfully elegant and informative!

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