The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity 1812-1822

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Автор: Harold Nicolson

Название: The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity 1812-1822

Издательство: The Vikihg Press

Год: 1964

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 312

Размер: 134 Mb

At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a congress convened in Vienna in which the fate of Europe was to be determined. Attending were the great statesmen of the time—the wily French foreign minister, Talleyrand; his brave but misguided British counterpart, Lord Castlereagh; the conservative Austrian chancellor, Prince Metternich; and the idealistic but unstable tsar Alexander. Beginning with Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, the pace of the narrative holds throughout the negotiations in the Austrian capital, where the power struggle to both restore a lost world and ensure a stable future took place. Harold Nicolson's classic is narrative history at its best, covering the military, strategic, and diplomatic action from 1812 through the end of the wars in 1815.