Publisher's Synopsis
Stefan Zweig, one of the best writers in European literature, heir to the refined and elegant prose of the 19th century, delights us his Decisive Moments in History, a book for all kinds of readers that instructs and delights in equal measure. A great observer, he masterfully recounts in this chronicle fourteen moments that have marked a turning point in History: the decline of the Western Empire, the defeat of Napoleon, the conquest of the South Pole, the first telegraph cable to cross the Atlantic Ocean, among others. All of them, in Zweig's words, "moments pregnant with fatality, in which a decision destined to persist throughout time is compressed into a single date." A classic work that almost a century later remains a bestseller.
