The Road to Mayerling
Author: Richard Barkeley
Publisher:
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781258803421
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Twilight of Empire
Author: Greg King
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017-11-14
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1250083036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his seventeen-year-old mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera as she slept, sat with the corpse for hours and, when dawn broke, turned the pistol on himself. A century has transformed this bloody scene into romantic tragedy: star-crossed lovers who preferred death together than to be parted by a cold, unfeeling Viennese Court. But Mayerling is also the story of family secrets: incestuous relationships and mental instability; blackmail, venereal disease, and political treason; and a disillusioned, morphine-addicted Crown Prince and a naïve schoolgirl caught up in a dangerous and deadly waltz inside a decaying empire. What happened in that locked room remains one of history’s most evocative mysteries: What led Rudolf and mistress to this desperate act? Was it really a suicide pact? Or did something far more disturbing take place at that remote hunting lodge and result in murder? Drawing interviews with members of the Habsburg family and archival sources in Vienna, Greg King and Penny Wilson reconstruct this historical mystery, laying out evidence and information long ignored that conclusively refutes the romantic myth and the conspiracy stories.
Crime at Mayerling
Author: Georg Markus
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor decades, scientists and historians had been trying to solve the mystery of what had happened at Mayerling. An Austrian "Mayerling buff" felt compelled to reach an explanation in his own way: he secretly opened the grave of Baroness Vetsera at night, stole the coffin with her remains, and had them examined by forensic physicians and other specialists.
The Road to Mayerling
Author: Richard Barkeley
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Rudolf (21 August 1858? 30 January 1889), Archduke of Austria and Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, was the son and heir-apparent of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, and his wife and Empress-Queen consort, Elisabeth. His death, apparently through suicide, along with that of his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at his Mayerling hunting lodge in 1889 made international headlines."--Wikipedia.
My Past
Author: Marie Louise von Wallersee-Larisch
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRudolf, Crown Prince and Rebel
Author: Brigitte Hamann
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433110801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a translation of Brigitte Hamann's study of Rudolf von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria.
Slocum 342
Author: Jake Logan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-07-31
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1440620350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlocum’s between four stone killers and a half-human wild man! Slocum crosses hell getting Caleb Castle to Silver City to close a rich land deal—and receives a mighty tempting offer from Castle’s daughter to settle down. But then he meets Mayerling, a former Quantrill raider and backstabbing stone killer. Now a Deputy Sheriff, Mayerling’s tracking a dangerous hermit roaming the Gila River’s cliffs and spying on people below. Slocum spotted the hermit along the way to Silver City, and he knows this “half human, half animal” mad man doesn’t have a prayer against Mayerling’s “deputies.” The hermit’s wealthy wife is surely concealing something, but her greenbacks convince Slocum to save her husband from Mayerling’s shooters. Still, the whole situation has Slocum wondering what the set-up is, even though the truth always comes out—often in a blaze of gunfire…
Vampire Hunter D Volume 3: Demon Deathchase
Author: Hideyuki Kikuchi
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Published: 2012-10-09
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1621154890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe novel that was the basis for the hit motion picture Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlustis available in English for the first time! The third volume of the popular Japanese series Vampire Hunter D comes to America in Vampire Hunter D: Demon Deathchase. The vampire hunter known only as D has been hired by a wealthy, dying man to find his daughter, who was kidnapped by the powerful vampire Lord Meierlink. Though humans speak well of Meierlink, the price on his head is too high for D to ignore and he sets out to save her before she can be turned into an undead creature of the night. In the nightmare world of 12090 A.D., finding Meierlink before he reaches the spaceport in the Clayborn States and gets off the planet will be hard enough, but D has more than just Meierlink to worry about. The dying man is taking no chances, and has also enlisted the Marcus family, a renegade clan of four brothers and a sister who don't care who they kill as long as they get paid. Beautiful illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano complement the post-apocalyptic plot, filled with chilling twists. FOR MATURE READERS
The Speedicut Papers: Book 7 (1884–1895)
Author: Christopher Joll
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2018-04-30
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1546291393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did General Gordon remain in Khartoum? What really happened at the Battle of Abu Klea? How and why did King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, actually die? Who was Jack the Ripper? And why was Oscar Wilde provoked into suing Lord Queensberry? For the first time, convincing answers to these and many other historical questions are answered in the memoirs of Colonel Jasper Speedicut. Speaking on behalf of the Faversham family, I can assure you that this book is an appalling travesty of the truth! A E W Mason Judging from this memoir, the British Empire was coloured pink on the map for a very good reason. Alfred Kinsey
The End and the Beginning
Author: Hermynia Zur Mühlen
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1906924279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
