"Thunder at Twilight" by Frederic Morton is next on the WW1 to- read list. Here is the Amazon synopsis. (I'm learning cut and paste, practicing.) I purchased it out of print for 42 cents plus $5 shipping.
Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna—and in the life of the twentieth century.
It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph—and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more.
With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolis—Vienna on the brink of cataclysm.
( Freud, Jung and Adler were also there, along with famous and future famous artists, writers, and scientists and inventors. Good times. The end of an epoch that had already run it's course.)
Holy Moly, It Worked ! This must be what Steve Jobs felt like.
and a picture !
That was easy. Tomorrow I'll try to post a new topic for discussion.