'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times...

The Habsburg Empire reached at various times across most of Europe and the New World. At all the critical moments of European history it is there - confronting Luther, launching the Thirty Years War, repelling the Ottomans, and taking on...

The definitive history of the height of the Habsburg dynasty which, for better or worse, had a pivotal influence on the nature of the Europe that followed. Richard Evans describes Martyn Rady as 'a master of compression and lively...

The Habsburgs: To Rule the World