Thunder at twilight
Subtitle: Vienna, 1913/1914
By: Frederic Morton
Edition: Second Da Capo Press paperback edition.
Publisher: Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780306823268; 978030623275
Subjects: History; World War, 1914-1918; Causes
Description: "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"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: "With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-375) and index.