For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family.
Simon Winder’s extremely fu.
From their principal lairs along the Danube they ruled most of Central Europe and Germany and interfered everywhereindeed the History of Europe hardly makes sense without them.
An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw offthrough luck, guile and sheer mulishnessany number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918.
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family