An anonymous observer at the Austrian capital recounts the years between King Edward VII’s visit to Franz Joseph at Ischl in 1907 and the summer of 1914. The story takes in the old Emperor’s illnesses, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Countess Chotek, the Kaiser’s visits, the Balkan crises, spies and diplomats, and the drift toward war.
A gossipy wartime insider’s view of the last years of Habsburg Vienna, to be read with an eye on its anti-German bias. Download the free EPUB.