Rady tells their story with verve and authority,Ĭasting a curious eye over their eccentricities and peccadilloes while all the History on an epic scale!'- Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs and Jerusalem: The Biographyįoremost royal family. Revealing a key player in world history for almost a thousand years, The Habsburgs is a chronicle of high politics and family intimacy involving religion, murder, incest, madness, suicide, assassination. Martyn Rady recounts the story of Europe's greatest dynasty that ruled an empire, on which the sun never set, from Peru to the Philippines.

' The Habsburgs is gripping, colorful, and dramatic but also concise, scholarly, and magisterial. 'A sweeping chronicle of the rise and fall of the Habsburg dynasty.'- Kirkus 'This comprehensive account provides an insightful overview of seven centuries of European history.'- Publishers Weekly 'This admirably compact, exceptionally well-written survey will probably be the standard one-volume history of the Habsburg dynasty for years to come.'- Library Journal

Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history.'- Times Literary Supplement (UK) Lucid, comprehensive and witty, it is not merely a pleasure to read but a complete education. 'Probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language. 'A Rolls Royce of a narrative that motors through ten centuries of history with an effortlessness that belies the intellectual horsepower beneath the bonnet.'- Literary Review (UK) It is impossible to imagine a more erudite and incisive history of this fascinating, flawed and ultimately tragic dynasty.'- The Times (UK) 'Martyn Rady's history of this peculiar family is deeply informed, elegantly written and a joy to read.'- Evening Standard (UK) “Glory, grief, loss – and incest – are all covered in this panoramic account that makes more sense of the great European dynasty than its rulers often did.”- The Guardian If the Habsburgs could last for a millennium, surely a constitutional republic can.'- Wall Street Journal In an era of schisms, America needs a unifying idea of itself as something greater than the sum of its parts. It's not hard to see current parallels to this story. 'A feat of both scholarship and storytelling.

The Habsburgs by Martyn Rady