Editor’s Note: We have not yet read this book, but Shlaes’ books on Coolidge and the Great Depression were both excellent. We expect this one to be the same.
Presently there was a stir in one of the houses, and a bat flew out of the door into the daylight, and three mice came running out of the doorway down the
It was the fourth of July, 1809, and thunderous, close evening. In Lobau, the largest of the five islands on the Danube, where were the imperial headquarters, the huge machinery of war,