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1	The Darkest Night more books like this by Gena Showalter add to wishlist The first volume in the Lords of the Underworld trilogy opens with Ashlyn Darrow coming to Budapest to seek help from men rumored to have supernatural abilities. Neither she nor Maddox, a man trapped in his own hell, can resist the instant hunger that calms their torments. Original. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.12! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World more books like this by Kati Marton add to wishlist Author Kati Marton follows these nine over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in England and America, and set out to make their mark. The scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner enlist Albert Einstein to get Franklin Roosevelt to initiate the development of the atomic bomb. Along with John von ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Kingdom of Shadows more books like this by Alan Furst add to wishlist In 1938, just after Hitler annexes Austria, suave man-about-town Nicholas Morath is asked by his Hungarian uncle to leave Paris and undertake a series of clandestine missions to Eastern Europe. Four novellas chronicle Nicholas's adventures as he tries to do his bit to change Hungary's increasingly ominous future. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	I have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust more books like this by Livia Bitton-Jackson add to wishlist Elli Friedmann was 13 when the Nazis invaded the town in Hungary where she lived. At first Elli and her mother were forced to relocate to a crowded ghetto, but eventually they were transported to Auschwitz. Because of her blond hair, Elli was spared from death and selected as a worker. In this memoir, she describes life in the infamous ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale about That Which Can Never Die more books like this by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. add to wishlist Through her startling rendering of an old tale, which transforms it from one that hurts the heart to one that helps to mend it, the internationally recognized author of Women Who Run with the Wolves tells about that most precious thing in all of life: the essence that can never die. Illustrations. see all copies from $2.61! new only from $9.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture more books like this by Carl E Schorske add to wishlist A landmark study of Habsburg Vienna in the late 19th and 20th centuries by one of the truly original scholars of our time. Photos included. see all copies from $4.26! new only from $6.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Blood Countess more books like this by Andrei Codrescu add to wishlist Based on the life of author Codrescu's ancestor Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary, who is said to have bathed in the blood of virgins to retain her youth, this novel is a tale of torture. The journalist, Bathory-Kereshtur, a character based on Codrescu himself, engages in a search for his heritage, which leads him to uncover a grisly, yet ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 more books like this by Robert A Kann add to wishlist 'An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty...The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in its comprehensiveness and objectivity, however, nor even in the wide knowledge and special expertise Kann can bring to bear from his early legal training, his formidable scholarship on the nationalities question, and his keen ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.98! \| first editions \| SVS
9	A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 more books like this by Frederic Morton add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos & the Search for Mathematical more books like this by Paul Hoffman add to wishlist The biography of a mathematical genius. Paul Erdos was the most prolific pure mathematician in history and, arguably, the strangest too. 'A mathematical genius of the first order, Paul Erdos was totally obsessed with his subject -- he thought and wrote mathematics for nineteen hours a day until he died. He travelled constantly, living out of a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Five Chimneys: A Woman's True Story of Auschwitz more books like this by Olga Lengyel add to wishlist Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredible strength. ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $7.91! \| SVS
12 view cover	Perfidy more books like this by Ben Hecht add to wishlist see all copies from $24.40! new only from $24.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Prague more books like this by Arthur Phillips add to wishlist A group of expatriates living in Budapest in 1990 would rather be in Prague, which seems to them to be the quintessential Eastern European city. Obsessed with a game called Sincerity, which both encourages and exposes lying, five characters interact with each other and with the city they're living in, providing a sharply observed picture of young ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 more books like this by Frederic Morton add to wishlist From the author of A Nervous Splendor, a dazzling portrait of the epicenter of the apocalypse that was World War I. Thunder at Twilight is a landmark of historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Viennaand in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The white stag more books like this by Kate Seredy add to wishlist Rhythmic prose tells the history of the Huns and Magyars, including their migration from Asia to Europe. Illustrated with dramatic b&w drawings. Winner of the 1938 Newbery Medal. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Epitaph for a Spy more books like this by Eric Ambler add to wishlist Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian language teacher, decides to break his journey from Nice to Paris at a windswept coastal town where his solitary nightmare begins. He collects his photographs from the chemist only to discover that the pictures are not of lizards at all, but military sites. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.98! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The good master more books like this by Kate Seredy add to wishlist Young Jancsi and his cousin Kate from Budapest race across the Hungarian plains on horseback, attend country fairs and festivals, and experience a dangerous run-in with gypsies, in a author of The White Stag. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.55! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Under the Frog more books like this by Tibor Fischer add to wishlist Two young men are part of a traveling basketball team in postwar Hungary. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	To See You Again: A True Story of Love in a Time of War more books like this by Betty Schimmel, Joyce Gabriel add to wishlist This is the story of Betty Schimmel and the two loves of her life. During the Nazi occupation she was separated from her childhood sweetheart, Richie, and sent to a concentration camp. Nearly 30 years after she had married her second love, she ran into Richie, and had to make an important choice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.95! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815 more books like this by Charles W Ingrao add to wishlist This is a revised and updated edition of a highly acclaimed history of the early modern Habsburg monarchy. Charles W. Ingrao challenges the conventional notion of Habsburg state and society as peculiarly backward by tracing its emergence as a military and cultural power of enormous influence. The Habsburg monarchy was undeniably different from ... see all copies from $9.68! new only from $28.90! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt more books like this by Charles Gati add to wishlist The 1956 Hungarian revolution, and its suppression by the U.S.S.R., was a key event in the cold war, demonstrating deep dissatisfaction with both the communist system and old-fashioned Soviet imperialism. But now, fifty years later, the simplicity of this David and Goliath story should be revisited, according to Charles Gati's new history of the ... see all copies from $6.66! new only from $15.01! \| first editions \| SVS
22	The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln more books like this by Professor Bernard Wasserstein add to wishlist Hungarian-Jewish thief, Anglican priest, social reformer, member of Parliament, crooked speculator, international spy, right-wing revolutionary - Lincoln was all of these, and more, in the course of his life. His motivation, identities and activities are discussed in this book. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	The Speed of Light more books like this by Elizabeth Rosner add to wishlist Julian Perel is a scientist obsessed with order and numbers. His sister Paula is an opera singer. The two have lived for years with their father and his disturbing secret. Now Paula is leaving on a European tour where she may find the key to her father's life--while back home Julian's solitary, regimented life is about to undergo a change. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Lonely Planet Budapest more books like this by Steve Fallon add to wishlist As well as providing information on the city of Budapest, this city guide also features walking and cycling tours of the city and the surrounding areas and excursions along the Danube, Szentendre, Veszprem and other places of interest. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.69! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Fateless more books like this by Imre Kertesz add to wishlist Fateless is the first English translation of a moving and disturbing novel about a Hungarian Jewish boy's experiences in German concentration camps and his attempts to reconcile himself to those experiences after the war. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98!

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