Ten turning points in history, vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig "Such
dramatically concentrated, such fateful hours, in which a timeless decision hang
s on a single date, a single hour, even just a single minute, rarely occur in ev
eryday life, and only rarely in the course of history." One of the twentieth cen
tury's great humanists and a hugely popular fiction writer, Stefan Zweig's histo
rical works bring the past to life in brilliant Technicolor. This collection con
tains ten typically breathless and erudite dramatizations of some of the most te
nse and important episodes in human history. From General Grouchy's failure to i
ntervene at Waterloo, to the miraculous resurrection of George Frideric Handel,
this, Stefan Zweig's selection of historical turning points, newly translated by
Anthea Bell, is idiosyncratic, fascinating and as always hugely readable.
