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This book deals with the military career of Joachim Reinhold von Glasenapp, Lord of Tegelen Castle. It shows that he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the service of several armies of the Ancient Regime. For three years he also led his own regiments of hussars and dragoons. The book explains where his military career took him, what wars he fought in and what this ultimately brought him. The book is illustrated with 157 beautiful pictures of the uniforms and with maps showing how his regiments roamed Germany over several years.

And all against the background of the various wars in which he fought and the general development of warfare and light cavalry in the eighteenth century. At the end, today’s re-enactment regiment Frei-Husaren von Glasenapp is discussed, on the occasion of whose 25th anniversary (1996-2021) this book was published.

The new book by Otto Peter Lang is here. General Albori led the Rainer, IR 59, in Russia and Italy, in Russia the 4th Army and in Italy the 5th Infantry Brigade. He kept his own photo albums with his typical lettering. 380 of his photos on 200 pages in the strictly limited edition. Each book bears the number and name of the owner.

SWGR – Salzburger Wehrgeschichte Rainerforschung
Author: Otto Peter Lang
200 pages, 380 photos

For further information please contact the author directly: lang.otto@utanet.at

This novel reports on the extraordinary fate of the town and fortress of Przemyśl, which at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was located in the northeastern part of the crown land of Galicia, hard on the border with Russia, and had to withstand and survive fierce sieges three times in the period from September 1914 to June 1915. These were the fiercest battles for a city fortress in the 1st World War.

What was probably unique about these first assaults was that the civilian population of initially about 50,000 people was directly involved in the fighting – at least through heavy artillery and infantry fire as well as bombing from aeroplanes. The immediacy of life in mortal danger meant that, as the fighting intensified, the cholera and typhus pandemics and the famine began, the morality and strict separation of the sexes that had hitherto been upheld in the monarchy before a church wedding also began to erode.

As a border crosser between the world of the nobility and global politics, Karl von Habsburg remembers formative moments in his life. He tells of his childhood and youth, of animated conversations with Empress Zita and philosophizes about his political commitment, his work in the protection of cultural property, and goes into various things that are important to him in his life.

He gives insights into his private life and the turbulent everyday life of an imperial grandson and head of the Habsburg family in the 21st century.

A balance sheet, richly illustrated with exclusive snapshots and photos from the private family album of a great dynasty.