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1 author picked Thunder at Twilight as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book paints a great, lively portrait of a city and its empire just before its downfall. Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky, Sigmund Freud, and Franz Ferdinand (and the rest of the Austrian nobility, of course) all spent time in Vienna in the lead-up to WW1. 

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