Triumph and Disaster

Five Historical Miniatures

Stefan Zweig (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2016
Pushkin Press (Verlag)
978-1-78227-274-8 (ISBN)

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One of two beautifully designed hardback gift editions of Stefan Zweig's breathlessly dramatic historical sketches, out in time for Christmas

A single Yes, a single No, a Too Soon or a Too Late makes that hour irrevocable for hundreds of generations while deciding the life of a single man or woman, of a nation, even the destiny of all humanity.

Five vivid dramatizations of some of the most pivotal episodes in human history, from the Fall of Constantinople to Scott's doomed attempt to reach the South Pole, bringing the past to life in brilliant technicolor.

Contents:

Foreword
The Field of Waterloo
The Race to Reach the South Pole
The Conquest of Byzantium
The Sealed Train (Lenin's journey across Europe before the Russian Revolution)
Wilson's Failure (Woodrow Wilson and Versailles)

Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Vienna, into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family. He studied in Berlin and Vienna and was first known as a poet and translator, then as a biographer. Between the wars, Zweig was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Fear. In 1934, with the rise of Nazism, he left Austria, and lived in London, Bath and New York-a period during which he produced his most celebrated works: his only novel, Beware of Pity, and his memoir, The World of Yesterday. He eventually settled in Brazil, where in 1942 he and his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2016
Übersetzer	Anthea Bell
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	111 x 178 mm
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-78227-274-7 / 1782272747
ISBN-13	978-1-78227-274-8 / 9781782272748
Zustand	Neuware