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Index
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraphs
Maps
Introduction
Place names
The Habsburg family
Chapter One
Tombs, trees and a swamp
Wandering peoples
The hawk’s fortress
‘Look behind you!’
Cultic sites
The elected Caesars
Chapter Two
The heir of Hector
The great wizard
Gnomes on horseback
Juana’s children
Help from the Fuggers
The disaster
Chapter Three
‘Mille regretz’
‘The strangest thing that ever happened’
The armour of heroes
Europe under siege
The pirates’ nest
A real bear-moat
Chapter Four
The other Europe
Bezoars and nightclub hostesses
Hunting with cheetahs
The seven fortresses
Chapter Five
A surprise visit from a flying hut
‘His divine name will be inscribed in the stars’
Death in Eger
Burial rites and fox-clubbing
The devil-doll
How to build the Tower of Babel
Chapter Six
Genetic terrors
The struggle for mastery in Europe
A new frontier
Zeremonialprotokoll
Bad news if you are a cockatrice
Private pleasures
Chapter Seven
Jesus vs. Neptune
The first will
Devotional interiors
The second will
Zips and Piasts
Chapter Eight
The great crisis
Austria wears trousers
The Gloriette
The war on Christmas cribs
Illustrious corpses
Carving up the world
Chapter Nine
‘Sunrise’
An interlude of rational thoughtfulness
Defeat by Napoleon, part one
Defeat by Napoleon, part two
Things somehow get even worse
An intimate family wedding
Back to nature
Chapter Ten
A warning to legitimists
Problems with loyal subjects
Un vero quarantotto
Mountain people
Chapter Eleven
The Temple to Glorious Disaster
New Habsburg empires
The stupid giant
Funtime of the nations
The deal
An expensive sip of water
Chapter Twelve
Mapping out the future
The lure of the Orient
Refusals
Village of the damned
On the move
The Führer
Chapter Thirteen
The sheep and the melons
Elves, caryatids, lots of allegorical girls
Monuments to a vanished past
Young Poland
Chapter Fourteen
‘The fat churchy one’
Night music
Transylvanian rocketry
Psychopathologies of everyday life
The end begins
Chapter Fifteen
The curse of military contingency
Sarajevo
The Przemyśl catastrophe
Last train to Wilsonville
A pastry shell
The price of defeat
Triumphs of indifference
Conclusion
Notes
Map of Modern Central Europe
Bibliography
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Index
Also by Simon Winder
Copyright
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