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Thunder at Twilight

Vienna 1913/1914

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Thunder at Twilight

By: Frederic Morton
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
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 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. 20th Century Europe Modern World Western Europe Colonial Period War Stalin Russia Imperialism Soviet Union
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the narration strikes the perfect tone for the writing.. the story is very well paced, and the language is colourful, informative, ironic and poetic. Vienna is deliciously described right at the end of an era, as an anachronism in a world that has already changed around it. I have listened to this audiobook several times and it never fails to entertain or teach me something new

just excellent

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