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Informationen zum Autor Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. Before joining the faculty at Yale in 2001, he held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He has spent some ten years in Europe, and speaks five and reads ten European languages. Among his publications are several award-winning books, all of which have been translated: Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz ; The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 ; Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine ; The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke ; On Tyranny ; and The Road to Unfreedom . He has written for publications including the New York Review of Books , the New York Times, Foreign Affairs , the Times Literary Supplement, Nation , the New Republic , the International Herald Tribune , and the Wall Street Journal . Klappentext In this exhilarating narrative, prize-winning historian Snyder offers an indelible portrait of Wilhelm von Habsburg whose life personifies the wrenching upheavals of the first half of the 20th century, as the rule of empire gave way to the new politics of nationalism. 20 b&w photos and maps. Zusammenfassung From the palaces of the Habsburg Empire to the torture chambers of Stalin's Soviet Union, the extraordinary story of a life suspended between the collapse of the imperial order and the violent emergence of modern Europe
