Cultural Region/Central Europe
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The Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II
$9.99 Add to cartA young readers’ edition of an important and inspiring true story of hope and survival during World War II.
Fourteen-year-old Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who hoped to become a concert pianist. Bu- Author: Golabek, Mona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 031655488X
- Language: English
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Our Little Mushroom: A Story of Franz Schubert and His Friends
$18.99 Read moreCaldecott Medal winner Emily Arnold McCully delivers a charming picture book following the life of prolific composer and musician Franz Schubert through the eyes of the friends who helped him find suc… [more below]
- Author: McCully, Emily Arnold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1534488782
- Language: English
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The Good Master
$8.99 Add to cartA Newbery Honor Book – from the author of The White Stag
Jancsi is overjoyed to hear that his cousin from Budapest is coming to spend the summer on his father’s ranch on the Hungarian plains. But the- Series: Puffin Newberry Library
- Author: Seredy, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: May 06 1986
- ISBN10: 014030133X
- Language: English
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The Apple and the Arrow
$9.99 Read moreA 1952 Newbery Honor Book
The year is 1291, and Walter is the twelve-year-old son of William Tell, the greatest bowman in the land of Uri. Walter lives happily in the remote heights of the Alpine Mo- Author: Buff, Conrad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 27 2001
- ISBN10: 0618128093
- Language: English
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The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy
$26.00 Add to cartA beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs’ grip on Europe’s historical and cultural imagination.
In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into e
- Author: Wolff, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1503635643
- Language: English
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Trekking Austria’s Adlerweg: The Eagle’s Way Across the Austrian Alps in Tyrol
$29.95 Add to cartA guidebook to walking the Adlerweg (Eagle’s Way) trail between St Johann in Tirol and St Anton am Arlberg via Innsbruck. Covering 324km (201 miles), this long-distance trek through the Austrian Tyro
- Author: Wells, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1786310902
- Language: English
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Budapest 1900
$18.00 Add to cartLukacs’s book is a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city’s history. . . . {His} true sympathy lies . . . not with the famous expatriates, but w… [more below]
- Author: Lukacs, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0802132502
- Language: English
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1848: Year of Revolution
$22.99 Read moreA “lively, panoramic” history of a revolutionary year (New York Times)
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had ke- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020674
- Language: English
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Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary
$34.95 Add to cart“[A] must-read for students of history and historians alike.”—Washington Book Review
Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I,
- Author: Schindler, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1612347657
- Language: English
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
$27.00 Add to cartIn 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Chang… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: March 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1107632757
- Language: English
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A House in Sicily
$21.99 Add to cartThe captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the “most beautiful house in Sicily”
For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne Phelps has ex… [more below]- Author: Phelps, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0786707941
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Hungary
$32.00 Add to cartThis book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the 1988 elections. It tells abo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Moln?r, Mikl?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: April 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0521667364
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man
$21.00 Add to cartWhat turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to … [more below]
- Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
- Author: Hamann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1848852770
- Language: English
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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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The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
$34.95 Add to cartIn this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European e… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Mayer, Arno J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1844676358
- Language: English
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe’s Crisis and America’s Economic Future
$45.50 Read moreA #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK]
A titanic battle is being waged for Europe’s integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and mal- Author: Varoufakis, Yanis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585047
- Language: English
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The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth
$19.99 Read moreMeriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family’s fate in Innsbruck, Austria,
- Author: Schindler, Meriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074574
- Language: English
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
$37.27 Add to cartA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction–and abiding promise
A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era o- Author: Jarausch, Konrad H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 888
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173079
- 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 Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook
$32.99 Add to cartThe road across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage routes during the Middle Ages, leading pilgrims to the resting place of the Ap
- Author: Gitlitz, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 21 2000
- ISBN10: 0312254164
- Language: English
