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The Habsburgs

EDWARD CRANKSHAW

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Bismarck

Biographies & Memoirs

Papermac

<p>The  of story the last two years before revolution tears the nobility apart and topples the reign of the winter palace, and the Czars.</p>

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

Literature & Fiction

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 35, and Anna Karenina was finished before he was 50. By then he had fulfilled his genius and deployed all those elements of his titanic temperament that made him world famous. In a richly detailed and sympathetic audiobook 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. 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 that helps us to a fuller understanding of Tolstoy's towering genius—and the limitations that went with it. Edward Crankshaw (1909-1984) was a British writer, translator and commentator on Soviet affairs. Born in London, Crankshaw was educated in the nonconformist public school Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire. He started working as a journalist for a few months at The Times. In the 1930s he lived in Vienna, Austria, teaching English and learning German (his competent grasp of German caused him to become part of the British Intelligence service during World War II). On his return he went back to write for The Times and began to write reviews—mostly musical—for The Spectator, The Bookman, and other periodicals. Crankshaw wrote around 40 books on Austrian and Russian subjects and after the war began his research in much more depth.

Tolstoy: The Making of a Novelist

Literary

Corgi Childrens

A literary portrait of the imposing figure who was the only woman to rule the Habsburg empire

Maria Theresa

Longmans

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

Fall of the House of Hapsburg

History

Europe

Sphere Books, Ltd.

The awesome figure of Otto von Bismarck, the ’Iron Chancellor’, dominated Europe in the late 19th century. His legendary political genius and ruthless will engineered Prussia’s stunning defeat of the Austrian Empire and, in 1871, led to his most dazzling achievement—the defeat of France and the unification of Germany. In this highly acclaimed biography Edward Crankshaw provides a perceptive look at the career of the First Reich’s mighty founder—at his brilliant abilities and severe limitations and at the people who granted him the power to transform the shape and destiny of Europe.  Edward Crankshaw (1909-1984) was a British writer, translator, and commentator on Soviet affairs. Born in London, Crankshaw was educated in a non-conformist public school, Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire. He began his career as a journalist at at The Times, a position he only held for a few months. In the 1930s he lived in Vienna, Austria, teaching English and learning German (his competent grasp of German led him to become part of the British Intelligence service during World War II). On his return to England he went back to working for The Times and also began to write reviews—mostly musical—for The Spectator, The Bookman, and other periodicals. Crankshaw wrote around 40 books on Austrian and Russian subjects and after the war began his research in much more depth. Crankshaw's book on Nazi terror, Gestapo (1956), was widely read; in 1963 he began to produce more ambitious literary works, often on historical or monumental moments in Russian Political history.

Historical

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Tolstoy

Arts & Literature

Khrushchev

This is the story of the rise and fall of one man against the background of his country’s history—bloody, tumultuous, yet immensely significant—since the revolution in 1917. Nikita Sergei Khrushchev was born in 1894 at Kalinovka where Great Russia borders the Ukraine. He was the child of peasants driven from the land by poverty. His grandfather had been born a serf; his father was a landless worker traveling to the coal fields of the Donetz Valley in the winter, in spring returning to the land. Thus the infant Khrushchev was one of a vast family of nearly 100 million peasants, mainly illiterate, latterly liberated from serfdom. He was a child without history, and as an infant lucky to survive. Sixty years later, nevertheless, he was to become the dominant leader of the Soviet Empire, now the home of 220 million souls, disposing of a massive and complex economy, a vast and modern army, navy and air force and presiding over the launching of the first man into space. In this biography Edward Crankshaw describes how this was achieved, provides a vivid and convincing appreciation of Khrushchev’s extraordinary and contradictory character, and at the same time places him firmly within the context of Russian history and society. He goes on to answer the most difficult question of all: How was it that this peasant from Kalinovka, who rose to become Stalin’s lieutenant and close collaborator in his achievements and his crimes, was transformed into a major statesman who may be remembered chiefly as a man of peace? There is no one better qualified than Edward Crankshaw to write this book. Over the years he has come to be recognised as the wisest, most sane and perspicacious of experts on Soviet affairs. This book is a brilliant and enthralling study of an astonishing man who brought his country to the threshold of a new age which he himself could not enter.

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The Habsburgs

Bismarck

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

Tolstoy: The Making of a Novelist

The Habsburgs

Maria Theresa

Fall of the House of Hapsburg

Bismarck

Tolstoy

Khrushchev