num_pages: 358
description: BROOK-SHEPHERD'S HISTORY OF THE LAST HAPSBURG EMPEROR MAY BE A BIT DATED BUT IS STILL A SOLID HISTORY OF THE TRAGIC FATE OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES I. THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE "SIXTUS AFFAIR" IN DETAIL, THAT ULTIMATELY DISCREDITED THE EMPEROR IN THE EYES OF HIS ALLY KAISER WILHELM II, THE MEDICORE BUREAUCRATS THAT SERVED THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN KINGDOM, THE BETRAYAL OF THE HUNGARIAN REGENT HOROTHY THAT PLEDGED LOYALTY TO HIS HUNGARIAN CROWN, AND CHARLES' UNTIMELY DEATH AT THE AGE OF 35 IN EXILE. EXTENSIVE INDEX.
language: English
title: The Last Habsburg
publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd.