Austria & Hungary
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Kasztner’s Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
$19.00 Add to cartIn March, 1944, the German army marched into Hungary, followed soon after by Adolf Eichmann and his SS Sondercommando. His single goal was to eliminate the entire Jewish population of the country. Rez… [more below]
- Author: Porter, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0802717411
- Language: English
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Bittersweet Freedom: What Would You Be Willing To Sacrifice To Live In Freedom? Would It Be Worth The Price?
$31.80 Add to cartBITTERSWEET FREEDOM – A Magnificent Drama of human suffering, courage, man’s mortality, and selfless love. Gripping, funny, sad, galvanizing. Difficult to put down. A lesson inspiring each of us to ap
- Author: Bognar Bean, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1733179313
- Language: English
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The Habsburg Empire: A Captivating Guide to the House of Austria and the Impact the Habsburgs Had on the Holy Roman Empire
$18.97 Add to cartDiscover the captivating history of Europe’s second-oldest dynasty-the Habsburgs!
The Habsburg family ruled central Europe since the early medieval times to World War I, but they still exist as one of
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: March 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1637162154
- Language: English
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The War of the Austrian Succession
$32.00 Add to cartReed S. Browning explores the often-changing war aims of the major belligerents-Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, Piedmont-Sardinia, and Spain-and links diplomatic and military events to the po… [more below]
- Author: Browning, Reed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0312125615
- Language: English
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The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
$24.95 Add to cartAn updated new edition of a classic history of the Hungarians from their earliest origins to today
In this absorbing and comprehensive history, Paul Lendvai tells the fascinating story of how the Hung- Author: Lendvai, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691200270
- Language: English
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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914
$24.99 Add to cartThunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentie
- Author: Morton, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0306823268
- Language: English
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Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind
$31.00 Read moreA chronicle of Vienna’s Golden Age and the influence of Sigmund Freud on the modern world by a clinical psychologist whose mystery novels form the basis of PBS’s Vienna Blood series.
Some cities are- Author: Tallis, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1250288959
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
$24.99 Add to cartThe vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa–one of the most renowned women rulers in history–and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France… [more below]
- Author: Goldstone, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 031644930X
- Language: English
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
$35.00 Read moreThe definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries — from their rise to power to their eventual downfall.
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dy… [more below]- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541644506
- Language: English
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The Crossroads of Civilization: A History of Vienna
$29.95 Read more“From the Congress of Vienna to the Austria World Summit, the city of Vienna has hosted key meetings on peace to climate action. This is a first-class book about Vienna as the crossroads of civilizati… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361952
- Language: English
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Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust
$17.98 Add to cartIt seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally no… [more below]
- Author: Gross, Jan Tomasz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190614536
- Language: English
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
$22.99 Add to cart“A feat of both scholarship and storytelling” (Wall Street Journal)–the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries.
In The Habsburgs,… [more below]- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1541644514
- Language: English
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Will to Survive: A History of Hungary
$38.99 Add to cartThe Will to Survive describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequ… [more below]
- Author: Cartledge, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: April 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0199327343
- Language: English
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The World of Yesterday
$26.95 Add to cartBy the author who inspired Wes Anderson’s film, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age- Author: Zweig, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803226616
- Language: English
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Schoenberg: Why He Matters
$29.95 Add to cartIn his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestra
- Author: Sachs, Harvey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 163149757X
- Language: English
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Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West
$35.00 Read moreAN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A vivid and enthralling account of the historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city in the heart of Europe, on the fault line between … [more below]
- Author: Sebestyen, Victor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0593317564
- Language: English
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The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring
$32.99 Read more“The angel makers is a true-crime story like no other-a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer, leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 me… [more below]
- Author: McCracken, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063275031
- Language: English
