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Perfect late night reading JAN MORRIS
Banffy is a born storyteller PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR
Totally absorbing MARTHA KEARNEY
So evocative SIMON JENKINS

The second volume of Miklos Banffy''s panoramic trilogy of the dying years of the Habsburg empire.

The tale of two Transylvanian cousins, their loves, their ambitions and their fortunes continues in They Were Found Wanting. Balint Abady is forced to part from the beautiful and unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy. Laszlo Gyeroffy is rapidly heading for self-destruction through drink and his own fecklessness. The politicians, quarrelling among themselves and stubbornly ignoring their countrymen''s real needs, are still pursuing their vendetta with the Habsburg rule from Vienna. Meanwhile they fail to notice how the Great Powers - through such events as Austria''s annexation of Bosnia-Herzagovina in 1908 - are moving ever closer to the conflagration of 1914-1918 that will destroy

They Were Found Wanting

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      Publisher Quercus Publishing
      Published 9/26/2024
      ISBN-13 9781529434675
      978-1529434675
      ISBN-10 152943467X
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Perfect late night reading JAN MORRIS
      Banffy is a born storyteller PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR
      Totally absorbing MARTHA KEARNEY
      So evocative SIMON JENKINS

      The second volume of Miklos Banffy''s panoramic trilogy of the dying years of the Habsburg empire.

      The tale of two Transylvanian cousins, their loves, their ambitions and their fortunes continues in They Were Found Wanting. Balint Abady is forced to part from the beautiful and unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy. Laszlo Gyeroffy is rapidly heading for self-destruction through drink and his own fecklessness. The politicians, quarrelling among themselves and stubbornly ignoring their countrymen''s real needs, are still pursuing their vendetta with the Habsburg rule from Vienna. Meanwhile they fail to notice how the Great Powers - through such events as Austria''s annexation of Bosnia-Herzagovina in 1908 - are moving ever closer to the conflagration of 1914-1918 that will destroy

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