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"Thunder at Twilight" is a landmark historical vision, drawing on
hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the
life of the extraordinary city of Vienna--and in the life of the
twentieth century.
It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in
Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of
Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided
with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler
kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in
a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience
with Emperor Franz Joseph--and soon the bullet that killed the
Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million
more.
With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the
National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant,
incomparable sunset metropolis--Vienna on the brink of
cataclysm.
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