The Real Third Man: Policing Postwar Vienna

At the centre of a war-shattered Europe, Vienna was divided between the victorious Allied powers. Restoring civil society proved a major challenge.

Clive Emsley | Published in History Today Volume 69 Issue 2 February 2019

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