Written by Edward Crankshaw, this is a full- length study of Maria Theresa. Called to the throne in 1740, at the age of 23, she was unprepared for events that were t o confront her. Her only weapons were her charm, unbreakable will, and her courage. '

Maria Theresa

Crankshaw, Edward

Biographies & Memoirs

Constable & Robinson Ltd.

Paperback book, 1986 printing, later printing than shown on "Amazon details page" but same cover art.

Shadow of the Winter Palace

History

Europe

Penguin??Books

Presents an incisive account of the life and career of Bismarck, whose dazzling abilities established Germany as a world power

Bismarck

Leaders & Notable People

The downfall of the Habsburg monarchy was more than just the end of a great and powerful dynasty. It meant the destruction of the old European order and marked a turning point in world history. Edward Crankshaw’s distinguished study offers a compelling account of the final decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, leading up to WWI. At the center of the dramatic events stands the majestic figure of the Emperor Franz Josef, facing the tragedies of his disastrous marriage and the suicide of his only son, and doggedly resisting the ruin of his inheritance. In a sweeping panorama of Vienna, Imperial Russia, Napoleon’s France, Bismarck’s Prussia, and Cavour’s Italy, Crankshaw examines the ambitions and disillusionment that broke the Empire and forged the destiny of the twentieth century. "A good book...a superb narrative...trenchant and witty." -- The New York Times "Sympathetic...scholarly...humane." -- Sunday Times

The Fall of the House of Habsburg

Putting Up with the Russians

The former British diplomatic officer offers a selection of his essays, articles, lectures, and book reviews, filled with insights into Russian history, culture, and politics

Putting up with the Russians

Americas

Tolstoy: The Making of a Novelist

Tolstoy was not always an old man-not always a bearded patriarch fixing the world with the eye of an angry ancient mariner. He started War and Peace" "when he was thirty five, and Anna" "Karenina" "was finished before he was fifty. By then he had fulfilled his genius and deployed all those elements of his titanic temperament which made him world famous. In a richly detailed and sympathetic book on the most creative years of Russia's greatest writer, Edward Crankshaw explores the world of Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the elements in it that contributed to his great art, and the nature of the creative processes involved. Accompanied by evocative illustrations of Tolstoy's life, Mr. Crankshaw's text presents a development of this extraordinary man-his idyllic country childhood and his painful schooling, the wild years of conscience-stricken dissipation, the sojourn among the Cossacks in the Caucasus, the army service in the Crimean War, his entry into Moscow and St. Petersburg literary circles, his fateful marriage. It is an absorbing account which helps us to a fuller understanding of Tolstoy's towering genius-and the limitations that went with it.

Tolstoy: The making of a novelist

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

The sinister Gestapo planted its evil roots in the 1930s but it was during the horror of World War II that this notorious organization became identified as the Nazis' leading instrument of repression. Edward Crankshaw provides an authoritative overview of the organization, examining the trail of destruction it blazed across Europe, looking at its structures and its rivalries with other police organizations, and revealing the struggle for power within the Gestapo's nefarious bureau. As this brilliant book makes compellingly clear, the Gestapo grew. It sought out resistance brutally suppressing it with torture and execution used repression to deter opposition, filled the concentration camps with political opponents and ethnic 'undesirables,' and actively sought to promote the Nazi state's perverse policies

Gestapo

Da Capo Press

Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a politically tempestuous time that was also a Golden Age of intellectual and artistic achievement—the century of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, of Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky. A master stylist and a distinguished historian, Edward Crankshaw limns dazzling portraits of the czars, the revolutionaries, and a host of other unforgettable characters—and provides a riveting, sweeping history "jam-packed with information about the past and implications for the present"(Atlantic Monthly).

The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution, 1825-1917

Military

Da Capo

The Shadow of the Winter Palace: The Drift to Revolution, 1825-1917 [Dec 01, 1977] Crankshaw, Edward

The shadow of the winter palace: The drift to revolution, 1825-1917

Macmillan