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

King, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307337162 ISBN 13: 9780307337160

Publisher: Harmony Books, 2008

Synopsis

A vivid rendering of the 1814 peace conference held in Vienna during the Napoleonic Wars offers lively portraits of the participants in the Congress of Vienna, as well as the political intrigues, illicit affairs, tangled alliances, bitter rivalries, and glittering pageantry that marked the occasion that transformed the face of nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

King reveals his talent for narrative flow and portraiture in a biography that will thoroughly inveigle history readers.
Booklist
A teeming personality-rich panorama of the first truly international peace conference.
Kirkus Reviews
A fascinating tale that shines light on a unique aspect of the relationship between scholarship and nationalism.
Choice
"It would have been more fun to attend the Congress of Vienna than any other political assembly in history. Next best is to immerse yourself in David King's Vienna 1814, which reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively-researched and important story that it tells. There was much frivolousness in the Vienna congress, but it did bring peace to Europe and shape the 19th century; and while the deliberations of the Vienna statesmen took place, the fate of the world hung in the balance."
David Fromkin, author of Europe s Last Summer
Deftly paced and engagingly written.
Publishers Weekly
King does a superb job of evoking the bedazzling social scene that served as the backdrop to the Congress of Vienna. This is a worthy contribution to the study of a critical historical event long neglected by historians. It should be in every European history collection.
Library Journal, starred review

From the Hardcover edition."

"King reveals his talent for narrative flow and portraiture in a biography that will thoroughly inveigle history readers."
--Booklist

"A teeming...personality-rich panorama of the first truly international peace conference."
--Kirkus Reviews

"A fascinating tale that shines light on a unique aspect of the relationship between scholarship and nationalism."
--Choice

"It would have been more fun to attend the Congress of Vienna than any other political assembly in history. Next best is to immerse yourself in David King's Vienna 1814, which reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively-researched and important story that it tells. There was much frivolousness in the Vienna congress, but it did bring peace to Europe and shape the 19th century; and while the deliberations of the Vienna statesmen took place, the fate of the world hung in the balance."
--David Fromkin, author of Europe's Last Summer

"Deftly paced and engagingly written."
--Publishers Weekly

"King does a superb job of evoking the bedazzling social scene that served as the backdrop to the Congress of Vienna. This is a worthy contribution to the study of a critical historical event long neglected by historians. It should be in every European history collection."
--Library Journal, starred review

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author:

A Fulbright scholar with a master’s degree from Cambridge University, DAVID KING is the author of the acclaimed Finding Atlantis. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife and children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harmony Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0307337162
• ISBN 13: 9780307337160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 434