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Austria is a small country with a glorious history but a troubled past. It sits at the crossroads of central Europe: the furthest the Ottomans reached in the seventeenth century, a Cold War back-channel between east and west, an EU member with its neutrality now challenged by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Nicholas T. Parsons expertly charts the colourful course of Austria from its origins at the outer reaches of the Roman empire to the postwar republic today. From the Romans to the Reformation, from Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Anschluss, and from Mozart to Klimt to Harry Lime, this is a lively history that shows just how important Austria’s story is to Europe’s as a whole.
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Austria is a small country with a glorious history but a troubled past. It sits at the crossroads of central Europe: the furthest the Ottomans reached in the seventeenth century, a Cold War back-channel between east and west, an EU member with its neutrality now challenged by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Nicholas T. Parsons expertly charts the colourful course of Austria from its origins at the outer reaches of the Roman empire to the postwar republic today. From the Romans to the Reformation, from Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Anschluss, and from Mozart to Klimt to Harry Lime, this is a lively history that shows just how important Austria’s story is to Europe’s as a whole.
