Vienna 1814

2008, gebonden met stofomslag, 434pp, mooi ex., 24x17cm

 

A vivid rendering of the 1814 peace conference held in Vienna during the Napoleonic Wars offers lively portraits of the participants in the Congress of Vienna, as well as the political intrigues, illicit affairs, tangled alliances, bitter rivalries, and glittering pageantry that marked the occasion that transformed the face of nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. 50,000 first printing.