It's a good book, and worth reading. It's a bit overwritten to my mind, and I found it a bit overly focused on the German side of the Habsburg empire (Winder's first book was about the history of Germany I think), but certainly gives a good background in all that mittel european history that is so lacking in the British curriculum.
For two histories that I think are both great and have a lot about Transylvania for obvious reasons I would recommend Pal Lendvai's "The Hungarians" and Lucian Boia's "Romania: Borderland of Europe"
And if you're into turn of the century novels Miklos Banffy's "Transylvanian Trilogy" is a great account of the last years of the austro hungarian empire in Transylvania
For two histories that I think are both great and have a lot about Transylvania for obvious reasons I would recommend Pal Lendvai's "The Hungarians" and Lucian Boia's "Romania: Borderland of Europe"
And if you're into turn of the century novels Miklos Banffy's "Transylvanian Trilogy" is a great account of the last years of the austro hungarian empire in Transylvania
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