Decisive Moments in History. Twelve Historical Miniatures
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Translated by/Aftw. Lowell A. Bangerter. Cover George McGinnis. 253p. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, (1999) (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought. Translation Series)
Contents
1.
Foreword [Stefan Zweig]
2.
Flight into Immortality [Balboa] [H 45]
3.
The Conquest of Byzantium [Constantine XI/Mohammed II] [H 167]
4.
George Frederick Handel’s Resurrection [H 271]
5.
The Genius of One Night [Rouget de Lisle] [H 576]
6.
The World Minute of Waterloo [Napoleon/Grouchy] [H 478]
7.
The Marienbad Elegy [Goethe] [H 243]
8.
The Discovery of El Dorado [Sutter] [H 661]
9.
Heroic Moment [Dostoevski] [D 119]
10.
The First Word to Cross the Ocean [Field] [H 180]
11.
Escape to God [Tolstoy] [E 6]
12.
The Battle for the South Pole [Scott] [H 616]
13.
The Sealed Train [Lenin] [H 395]
14.
Afterword [Lowell A. Bangerter. “Afterword”, pp. (249)-253]