Wilhelm von Habsburg vzal uniformu Austrian officer, court regalia of Habsburg archduke, jednoduchý oblek Parisian exile, dekorácie z Order Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. Spodku Italian of jeho archduke matka, Nemecko jeho archdukie otec, English z jeho britskej kráľovskej priateľmi, Polish krajiny jeho otca wished do role a ukrajinskej krajiny Wilhelm wished to rule himself. Timothy Snyder's masterful biography nie je len reconstruction of life of this extraordinary man - a man which remained loyal to his Ukrainian dreams even after the country's dissolution in 1921- but also charts the final collapse of the a new world order.