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The austrians a thousandyear odyssey, gordon brookshepherd, 2003, history, 483 pages. Brookshepherd knows more about austria and the austrians than any living englishman. Brookshepherd, i believe, accurately depicts the austrians, as idyllic, ever cheerful people who are more concerned with their wine, food, and merrymaking, than what goes on around them. Two years earlier, the empire of austria was founded.
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