One day when I was about 15 as I sat in my high school history class someone asked the teacher what the difference was between an Austrian and a German. “Noth

Austrians today often seem to believe that they have two histories. One is their republican present; the other, the centuries that their forebears spent as part

For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. In a gri

My father left Austria in 1956 determined to get as far away from Europe as possible, which happened to be New Zealand. Unlike most of the other Austrians who s

The historian Lonnie Johnson provides in compact form a comprehensive overview of Austria's rich past and present. Each chapter and subchapter approaches Austri