{"product_id":"timothy-snyder-red-prince-the-the-fall-of-a-dynasty-and-the-rise-of-modern-euro-2008-hardback","title":"Timothy Snyder: Red Prince, The The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Euro [2008] hardback","description":"This is the first ever biography of the extraordinarily colourful Archduke Wilhelm von Habsburg (1895-1947). Tattooed, bisexual, crossdressing, multilingual, he was a major - and symbolic - figure in 20th-century European culture and politics. Born into one of the great European dynasties with every expectation of a glittering future, instead he became a playboy in Paris during the 1930s and died - a spy for Britain - under interrogation in a Soviet prison. The arc of Wilhelm's life therefore describes the dying fall of the ancient regime - the Europe of his birth bears very little resemblance to that of his death.Operating largely in inter-war Europe, Wilhelm is like a Le Carre character -  a prisoner of private impulses that drove him to a doomed secret war. To the history of the Second World War the book adds a detailed discussion of Hitler's confrontation with a particular object of his loathing - the Habsburg family. A major subject of the book is Soviet communism and it's effect on the individual; cf Vassily Grossman's Life and Fate and A Writer at War.\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book of exceptional brilliance and originality - it cites documents from 20 archives and in 12 languages; each chapter title is a different colour.","brand":"Snyder, Timothy","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47767822565715,"sku":"XV80224081528","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/snyder-timothy-timothy-snyder-red-prince-the-the-fall-of-a-dynasty-and-the-rise-of-modern-euro-2008-hardback-xv80224081528-60487946109267.jpg?v=1734756959","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/timothy-snyder-red-prince-the-the-fall-of-a-dynasty-and-the-rise-of-modern-euro-2008-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}