Tragedy of Errors: The Chronicle of a European

Front Cover ......Page 1
Binding Strip ......Page 2
Flyleaf-1 ......Page 3
Half-title ......Page 4
PLATE 1: The Author, Count Hans Huyn ......Page 6
Title Page ......Page 7
Printer\'s imprint ......Page 8
Quotation from W.T. Stead ......Page 9
Preface ......Page 11
Contents ......Page 13
List of Illustrations ......Page 15
1. Early Years ......Page 17
2. Ten Years in the Navy ......Page 28
PLATE 2: Lake of Gmunden ......Page 39
PLATE 3: Austrian Fleet after Ancona Bombardment, May 1915 ......Page 40
3. The Collapse ......Page 45
4. The Jewish Problem ......Page 68
PLATE 4: Emperor Karl in an Eastern Galician village ......Page 73
PLATE 5, 6: Czortków rabbi / Wawel Castle, Cracow ......Page 74
5. New Pastures ......Page 84
6. The Diplomat ......Page 94
7. Sidelights on Poland ......Page 102
PLATE 7: Skoczylas\' woodcut of Polish peasant ......Page 113
PLATE 8: aerial photograph of Warsaw in 1922 ......Page 114
8. From Democracy to the Dictatorship of the Heart ......Page 126
PLATE 9: Stoss\' Triptych in St. Mary\'s Cathedral, Cracow ......Page 145
PLATE 10: Marshal Pilsudski ......Page 146
9. Premature Anschluss ......Page 148
10. Sidelights on the Weimar Republic. From Ebert to Hitler via Thoiry. German Foreign Service ......Page 161
PLATE 11: Briand at the grave of Stresemann ......Page 171
PLATE 12: Hindenburg looks on as Hitler acknowledges salutes, May 1933 ......Page 172
11. ‘Gleichschaltung’, the Juggernaut. Farewell to Warsaw ......Page 180
12. Return to Austria ......Page 207
13. Farewell to Austria ......Page 228
PLATE 13: Salzburg fancy dress ball, December 1937 ......Page 243
PLATE 14: British Royals at Austria\'s London Legation reception for von Schuschnigg ......Page 244
14. Retrospect and Outlook ......Page 257
PLATE 15: Moldau, Bohemia ......Page 263
PLATE 16: Neumayer / Simon / Huyn / Kindersley lunching at The Savoy ......Page 264
Index ......Page 271
Hutchinson\'s press notices ......Page 275
Flyleaf-2 ......Page 279
Rear Cover ......Page 280