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Richard Bassett is an American writer, historian and musician. He's the author of Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste ’79, Vienna ’85, Prague ’89 and authored For God and Kaiser, the first history of the Habsburg army to be published in English.

Early Life and education
Richard Bassett was born in 1955 in Bournemouth and educated at St Peter's Catholic Comprehensive School, Southbourne. He studied Law at Christ's College, Cambridge and then took an MA in the History of Art at Courtauld Institute of Art.

Career
Bassett set out for Central Europe and in 1983, became principal horn of the Ljubljana Opera House. In 1985, he was appointed Central European and then Eastern European correspondent for The Times. Having started reporting in 1980, he was made staff foreign correspondent for The Times in Central and Eastern Europe until the end of the Cold War.

In 1991, Bassett started work for Lord Jacob Rothschild, beginning as his Eastern European Advisor. He continued to work in the financial district for 25 years. On returning from the city at the end of 2013, he has devoted his time to writing books, teaching and playing the horn.

He has taught at the Central European University, the universities of London, Ljubljana, Trieste and Zagreb. He has lectured for the Cambridge New Habsburg Studies Network, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and has taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art and the University of Udine.

Works

 * A guide to Central Europe - (1987)
 * The Austrians: Strange Tales from the Vienna Woods - (1988)
 * Waldheim and Austria - (1990)
 * Hitler's Spy Chief - (2013)
 * Trieste Seventy Nine - (2013)
 * For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918 - (2015)
 * Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste #79, Vienna #85, Prague #89 - (2019)

Personal life
He married Emma-Louise O’Reilly in September 1990 and has two children.