Golden Fleece

First published in 1937, this is German-born American author Bertita Harding's biography of Franz Joseph I (1830-1916), Austria's longest-reigning Emperor and King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (1848-1916), and his wife Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898).Illustrated with superb photographs, many of them previously never seen.'Here is one of the great dramas and romances and tragedies of history. [...]Tremendously vital and human and a warmer picture of Franz Joseph than previously encountered...'-Kirkus Review