Status Updates From Danubia: A Personal History...

Winder has now followed the Hapsburg into the second half of the 18th century where he detects a shift in artistic energy from the religious to the secular.

This is a history of the Habsburg Empire with few footnotes and a fairly light-hearted writing style. The river that inspired the title has thus far been mentioned only in passing.

This book is basically the 1066 and All That of Balkan history - all the really memorable (i.e. preposterous) bits that stick out amid the mass of pointless misery, depopulation, massacres and general mutual detestation...