Vienna 1814
How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna

Okay, so you know how you're in that airport bookstore because you've tragically finished off your book before its even time to take off? (Because naturally nobody on goodreads would be caught there because they forgot to bring a book.) So you're standing, torn, between that shelf of NYT bestsellers......more

The genre of "popular history" is somewhat hard to pin down, over the years I've seen it defined in a number of different ways. The most common definition you'll find is any work of history written for a non-academic audience, but this has always seemed somewhat limiting to me. After all, can't a wo......more

If you're at all interested in modern European history, and looking for a bit of a racy tale too, then this book is for you. David King is to be commended for crafting such an elegant and engaging work that really does read like a novel. Vienna 1814 details the doings of the Congress of Vienna, held......more

I have recently become more and more fascinated with history. One particular event that kept catching my attention (as I struggled to understand the confusing welter of 19th-century Germanic states) was the Congress of Vienna. I wanted to know more about it. I went looking for books on the subject a......more

Good mix of serious diplomatic history with enough background I could follow along and addressing the foibles of the very human people involved. The explanations of Waterloo were very easy to follow and by watching events unfold from Vienna I was able to see the battle more clearly.......more