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    Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna
    Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna
    Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna
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    Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna

    Written by David King

    Narrated by Mel Foster

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    About this audiobook

    The Napoleonic Wars had torn Europe apart, and the peace conference of 1814 was to be held in the continent's grandest city: Vienna. Everyone had an agenda in the postwar world, and spy networks, bitter hatreds, illicit affairs, and tangled alliances ensued.

    Despite the gravity of the situation, the Hapsburg Emperor of Austria, in opening his splendid rococo palace to the European royals and providing elaborate banquets and lavish entertainments, set the stage for the most extravagant pageantry since the fall of the Roman Empire. Guests were swept up in the dazzling whirlwind of social events-masquerades, hunts, and elaborate dinners-even as maps were being redrawn, rulers reinstated or ousted, and fortunes transferred. Ultimately, the Congress of Vienna ushered in the longest period of peace Europe has ever known. Vienna 1814 is a rich, impeccably researched history of the intrigue and frivolity that would forever mark the Congress of Vienna as the greatest Vanity Fair of all time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 15, 2008
    ISBN9781400176267
    Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna
    Author

    David King

    David King is the New York Times bestselling author of Death in the City of Light, Vienna 1814, and Finding Atlantis. A Fulbright Scholar with a master's degree from Cambridge University, King taught European history before becoming a full-time writer. His books have been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Turkish, Polish, Korean, Italian, Swedish and Russian. Film rights have been sold in Death in the City of Light.

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    • 3/5
      Lightly written; very light view. The characters and stories fun.
    • 5/5
      A complex tale told vividly from 30,000 ft, so to speak, with connections through to C20. The narration is marred, sometimes hilariously, by enthusiastic and well meaning mispronunciations that seem to me the epitome of Americanised tour guides in Europe. The battle of Waterloo and the uncertain love-lives of the major players stand out as particularly dramatic and well-told tales. Recommended for general readers who want a broad look at a major piece of history that remains nevertheless not easily reducible to a single story.
    • 4/5
      This book is a piece of serious scholarship, based on hundreds of sources, with detailed analysis of the facts. It is also highly readable with a cast of hundreds of characters, many of whom were the crowned heads of Europe but who were also mad, bad, and dangerous to know. The whole event becomes somewhat surreal when you learn that the full Congress never met. Yet out of the deliberations of the participants who often worked through informal get togethers at the lavish salons and balls, came arrangements for a post-Napoleon era where some international borders are still recognisable today. Insightful and well-written, this is a story to ponder over and wonder how so much could be achieved affecting so many people.
    • 4/5
      Oh so good, but drags just a touch.