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For God and KaiserThe Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918 by Richard Bassett
Category: History
The definitive history of Austria's multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett's For God and Kaiser is a major account of the Habsburg army told for t ...Show more
Hitler's Spy Chief : The William Canaris mystery by Richard Bassett
Category: History
How Hitler's spy chief sabotaged the German war effort Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fuhrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could no ...Show more
Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett
Category: History
Part memoir, part reflection, this book brings to life central Europe during the last 10 years of the Cold War. It begins in Trieste in 1979 where the resonances of the Habsburg Empire are still strong. The second part moves to the darker, claustrophobic world of Vienna in 1985, where the atmosphere of ...Show more
Last Days in Old Europe - Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett
Category: History
The final decade of the Cold War, through the eyes of a laconic and elegant observer In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of a ...Show more
Prague Stories by Richard Bassett (Editor)
Category: Biography | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends, and scenes from the city's past and present, from ...Show more
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