Thunder at Twilight

Frederic Morton

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Da Capo Press
25 March 2014

History; European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000

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.

By: Frederic Morton
Imprint: Da Capo Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780306823268
ISBN 10: 0306823268
Pages: 391
Publication Date: 25 March 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Frederic Morton was born in Vienna and lives in New York. His short stories have been chosen for Best American Short Stories, and two of his critically acclaimed nonfiction works, The Rothschilds and A Nervous Splendor, have been bestsellers.

Reviews for Thunder at Twilight

Costa Mesa Daily Pilot, 4/18/14 The detail surrounding the many people involved in the slice of history building up to World War I is amazing...This book, with its accounts of the activities of many countries' politicians and the culture of Vienna at the time, explains what was going on so well that you almost feel as though you are there. Huffington Post, 5/31/14 A book about war and madness...A fascinating and well-written account of the social origins and context of [World War I].