Andrew Wheatcroft

'The Habsburgs'

Bog | Engelsk

The Habsburgs have been described at one extreme as demons responsible for a long history of atrocities; and, at the other, as dodos living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. In reality, the flamboyant royal family appear, in many ways, to hav

'The Enemy at the Gate'

Bog | Engelsk

In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widel