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Blessed Charles of Austria

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Blessed Charles of Austria
Full titleBlessed Charles of Austria: A Holy Emperor and His Legacy
AuthorCharles A. Coulombe
Published2020
Pages268
RecommendedOnce
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listCharles A. Coulombe’s life of the last Habsburg emperor — who tried to negotiate a separate peace in 1917, lost the throne, died at thirty-four and was beatified in 2004 — told as a religious as well as a political life.

Where I heard about it

  • A crowd-sourced X thread — in the replies to @typesfast’s question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (the thread, June 2025).

Connections

  • What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
  • World War I · Religion · History — where this sits in the corpus.
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