"A feat of both scholarship and storytelling" ( Wall Street Journal )--the definitive historyof a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe forcenturies. In TheHabsburgs , Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built--and then lost--over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs gained control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take...