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Rites of peace
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Adam Zamoyski |
Traces the epic events following Napoleon's exile in 1814 and the subsequent Treaty of Paris, examining how the eight-month Viennese carnival brought thousands of aristocrats to the Austrian capital … |
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Wittgenstein's Vienna Revisited
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Allan Janik |
"Fin de siecle Vienna was once memorably described by Karl Kraus as a "proving ground for the destruction of the world." In the decades leading to the World War that brought down the Austro-Hungarian… |
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Pluto
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Sam Savitt,Polly Anne Graff |
The fate of the royal Lipizzaner horses sequestered in an Austrian village during World War II becomes uncertain when the American occupation troops demand all available horses. Pluto leads the stall… |
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