The Red Prince – The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke

by Timothy Snyder

Published by Basic Books

September, 28, 2010

352 pages

ISBN 10: 0465018971  |  ISBN 13: 9780465018970

 

 William von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, and, every so often, a dress. As a teenager during WWI, he chose for his kingdom the exotic and unknown land of Ukraine. But the collapse of his Ukrainian dream made him, by turns, an ally of German imperialists, a notorious French lover, an angry Austrian monarchist, a calm opponent of Hitler, and finally a British spy against Stalin. Acclaimed historian Timothy Snyder's The Red Prince offers an indelible portrait of a fascinating man who embodied the many contradictions of twentieth-century Europe. 

Source: https://www.amazon.ca/Red-Prince-Secret-Habsburg-Archduke/dp/0465018971 

Daughter

by Tamara Duda (Author), Daisy Gibbons (Translator)

Published by Mosaic Press

September 10, 2023 

Paperback: ‎ 350 pages

ISBN-10: ‎ 1771616725  |  ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1771616720

The author states that her book "...is about courage, too, about the out-and-out courage to claim what is rightfully yours, to recognize it, to dig in your heels, and never give away to anyone what is yours, your home, your motherland, your heart, your right to walk with your head held high.... The author calls her novel Daughter part of the war effort. 

The heroine absorbs both what I (the Author) personally experienced and the experiences of many of the combatants, military volunteers, and displaced people whom fate brought together. She has become a 'stronghold' for many people. 'We shall live' says the heroine. 'Indeed, we shall!' I reply." from the Foreword by Tamara Duda This book surely will become a classic of war fiction and war journalism and a landmark for our understanding of what is happening in Ukraine today. 

Howard Aster discovered this book at the Lviv Literary Festival in late September 2021. On Friday, February 25, 2022, that infamous day when Ukrainians woke up to the reality of the russian war against them, the Publisher and the Author desperately made the English language book available to Mosaic Press with the hope that the world would better understand the terror of this continuing Russian war against Ukrainians. 

There is a powerful and courageous story here, about an author and how she wrote this book, how the book was published in Ukraine by a fearless small Ukrainian publisher, and how it is now made available to English language readers.

Source: https://www.amazon.ca/Daughter-Tamara-Duda/dp/1771616725