His essays are collected in Ukrainian History, Russian Politics, European Futures (2014), and The Politics of Life and Death (2015). He has also co-edited three further books: The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in Europe and North America (2001) Stalin and Europe: Terror, War, Domination (2013) and The Balkans as Europe (2018). His eight chief books are Nationalism, Marxism, and Modern Central Europe: A Biography of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz (1998) The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 (2003) Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist’s Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine (2005) The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (2008) Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), Thinking the Twentieth Century ( with Tony Judt, 2012) Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015) On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017) and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (2018). Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Played out in Europe's glittering capitals and bloody battlefields, in extravagant ski resorts and dank prison cells, 'The Red Prince' captures an extraordinary moment in the history of Europe, in which the old order of the past was giving way to an undefined future-and in which everything, including identity itself, seemed up for grabs.Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. When this dream collapsed he became, by turns, an ally of German imperialists, a notorious French lover, an angry Austrian monarchist, a calm opponent of Hitler, and a British spy against Stalin.

Coming of age during the First World War, Wilhelm repudiated his family to fight alongside Ukrainian peasants in hopes that he would become their king. Snyder offers an indelible portrait of an aristocrat whose life personifies the wrenching upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century, as the rule of empire gave way to the new politics of nationalism. In this exhilarating narrative history, prize-winning historian Timothy D. He spoke the Italian of his archduchess mother, the German of his archduke father, the English of his British royal friends, the Polish of the country his father wished to rule, and the Ukrainian of the land Wilhelm wished to rule himself. He could handle a saber, a pistol, a rudder, or a golf club he handled women by necessity and men for pleasure.

Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and, every so often, a dress.

The Red Prince by Timothy Snyder