The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity : 1812-1822

Harold Nicolson

GROVE/ATLANTIC Incorporated, 2000 - History - 312 pages

In 1812, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a congress convened in Vienna in which the fate of Europe was to be determined for the next hundred years. Attending were the great statesmen of the time -- the wily French foreign minister, Talleyrand; his brave but misguided British counterpart, Lord Castlereagh; the conservative Austrian chancellor, Prince Metternich; and the idealistic but unstable tsar Alexander. Beginning with Napoleon's harrowing retreat from Moscow, the pace of the narrative holds throughout the negotiations in the Austrian capital, where the power struggle to both restore a lost world and ensure a stable future took place. Harold Nicolson's classic is narrative history at its best. "With swift pace, clear focus and a series of brilliant character sketches, this is narrative history at its best." -- The New York Times

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User Review  - Eddy Allen - Goodreads

Harold Nicolson was well qualified to write this book. His father, Sir Arthur Nicolson, was a diplomat as he himself was in early adulthood being a member of the British delegation to the Paris Peace ...

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User Review  - Mark Singer - Goodreads

Harold Nicolson's history of the attempt by Great Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria to bring order and balance to Europe in 1814 after over twenty years of warfare inflicted on Europe by France ...

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity : 1812-1822
• Author: Harold Nicolson
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: GROVE/ATLANTIC Incorporated, 2000
• ISBN: 080213744X, 9780802137449
• Length: 312 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / General; History / Military / General; History / Modern / 19th Century; Political Science / International Relations / General