Rauchensteiner, Manfried Betrifft Geschichte. Ein Streifzug durch die Zeiten

For many years Manfried Rauchensteiner, author of numerous books (including the standard works "Der Erste Weltkrieg und das Ende der Habsburgermonarchie 1914-1918" and "Unter Beobachtung. Austria since 1918"), has contributed to newspapers, magazines, catalogues and anthologies. Now, for the first time, a selection of his most successful historical contributions is available in book form.

Rauchensteiner's precise descriptions deal, among other things, with Emperor Maximilian I., Austrian galley prisoners, the last days of Emperor Franz Joseph, Stalin's crimes, the Carinthian question after the First World War, Hitler's invasion of Poland, Austria's reaction to the popular uprising in Hungary in 1956, the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, biographies and the culture of remembrance, the war in Ukraine and the question: Why war? The essays cast light on some of the most defining events of the last 500 years and their impact into the present day.