About the book: 2003 / A unique book by Enno Edward Kreye - a famous writer-publicist, professor of history at the universities of Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina. The author covers the main stages of the confrontation with Napoleon of the outstanding Austrian Foreign Minister Clemens Lothar von Metternich against the backdrop of the historical picture that developed in Europe at the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th centuries. Introduces the basic facts of the life and work of a brilliant politician, whose talent for intrigue and flexible diplomacy greatly influenced the development of the political situation during the collapse of the Reich and the division of the third Germany.