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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-101852854391
ISBN-139781852854393
eBay Product ID (ePID)2510463
Product Key Features
Book TitleUncrowned Emperor : the Life and Times of Otto Von Habsburg
Number of Pages1 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2004
TopicCultural Heritage, General
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorGordon Brook-Shepherd
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight21.3 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-271166
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal940.5/092 B
SynopsisThe Austro-Hungarian Empire dominated central Europe until 1918, when the last Habsburg Emperor, Karl, fled into exile. Karl's death in 1921 made his nine-year-old son Otto head of the Habsburg family, a position he has now held for over eighty years. Born heir presumptive to an empire that stretched from the Tyrol to Transylvania, and from Poland to Sarajevo, Otto von Habsburg's life has both affected and been reflected in some of the most dramatic and historic events of the twentieth century. As a four year old in 1916 he walked in the funeral procession of the Emperor Franz Josef. Otto von Habsburg later became the focus of royalist loyalty, a Habsburg restoration attracting considerable political support until the Second World War. Refusing any contact with Hitler (whose code name for the Anschluss was Operation Otto), he fled first to France then America, where he formed a friendship with F.D. Roosevelt. Never living in the past, he later became a highly respected Member of the European Parliament.