On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots
A social history of Vienna on the eve of World War I concentrates on the personalities and events surrounding the assassination of Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand.
A social history of Vienna on the eve of World War I concentrates on the personalities and events surrounding the assassination of Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand.
Berek, a young penniless Jew of eighteen is struggling to make a home of Turk Place, a desolate street that, in 1873 Vienna, was little more than a Gypsy encampment. But Berek believes fiercely in hi