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This is the guest Edward Habsburg's own book, discussed throughout the podcast as the main topic of conversation. He describes it as offering the example of the Habsburg dynasty as a guide to making sense of the present.

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Edward Habsburg references the Dune novels when discussing the concept of empire, comparing the Habsburg empire to the empires depicted in Star Wars and Dune. He also makes an earlier reference to the Bene Gesserit from Dune when joking that Habsburgs don't have 'other memories' about their family history.

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Edward Habsburg references 'Kissinger says in his book on diplomacy' when discussing Ferdinand II and how Richelieu couldn't understand Ferdinand's decisions during the Thirty Years' War period.

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Dominic references 'those books by Miklos Banfi, those brilliant books about life in Hungarian Transylvania at the end of the empire' when discussing nationalism and the decline of the Habsburg empire. These are likely references to Banfi's Transylvanian Trilogy.

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Edward Habsburg describes 'the extremely readable autobiography of the executioner of Paris, Charles-Henri Sanson' as a book everyone should read, where he discovered the story of Marie Antoinette's final moments on the way to her execution.