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I recently read this book, some months ago. It called back to life the feeling and cultural atmosphere of the Donaumonarchie before WW1. Everything was at peace, everybody was complacent, nobody imagined that things could ever change and that progress would ever stop from being made - and that drastic change could come so stunningly quickly.
It was not only a smooth, pleasant reading - I also felt like reading - in parts - a book about the present Zeitgeist.