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The Darkest Night

The Darkest Night more books like this

by Gena Showalter

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.

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I have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust

I have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust more books like this

by Livia Bitton-Jackson

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 ...

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Kingdom of Shadows

Kingdom of Shadows more books like this

by Alan Furst

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.

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The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World more books like this

by Kati Marton

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 ...

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The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale about That Which Can Never Die

The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale about That Which Can Never Die more books like this

by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

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.

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The Blood Countess

The Blood Countess more books like this

by Andrei Codrescu

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 ...

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Five Chimneys: A Woman's True Story of Auschwitz

Five Chimneys: A Woman's True Story of Auschwitz more books like this

by Olga Lengyel

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. ...

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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889

A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 more books like this

by Frederic Morton

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Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos & the Search for Mathematical

Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos & the Search for Mathematical more books like this

by Paul Hoffman

A biography of the Hungarian pure mathematical genius, Paul Erdos, born in 1913 in Budapest. Erdos led a strange life, devoting 19 hours a day, seven days a week to the study of mathematics, travelling the world with his mother until his death at the age of 83. He is considered one of the most extraordinary thinkers of our times.

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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914

Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 more books like this

by Frederic Morton

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 ...

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Prague more books like this

by Arthur Phillips

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 ...

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The white stag more books like this

by Kate Seredy

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.

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A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 more books like this

by Robert A Kann

'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 ...

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Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture more books like this

by Carl E Schorske

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.

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The good master more books like this

by Kate Seredy

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.

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The Reichmann's: Family, Faith, Fortune and the Empire of Olympia & York more books like this

by Anthony Bianco

The epic rise and spectacular fall of the devoutly religious and secretive family that was one of the ten richest of the world. "The Reichmanns" is filled with fascinating characters, epic scope, and an illuminating look at the world of the ultra-orthodox. of photos.

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Budapest more books like this

by Barbara Olszanska (Contributions by), Tadeusz Olszanski (Contributions by)

Recognized the world over by frequent flyers and armchair travelers alike, Eyewitness Travel Guides are the most colorful and comprehensive guides on the market. With beautifully commissioned photographs and spectacular 3-D aerial views revealing the charm of each destination, these amazing travel guides are the only things you'll need to pack.

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Fateless more books like this

by Imre Kertesz

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.

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Epitaph for a Spy more books like this

by Eric Ambler

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.

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Under the Frog more books like this

by Tibor Fischer

Two young men are part of a traveling basketball team in postwar Hungary.

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A Book of Memories more books like this

by Péter Nádas

A psychological novel that is a coming-to-terms with the ghosts, corpses and repressed nightmares of Europe's recent past. It is made up of three first-person narratives integrated into a work of tragic intensity.

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Lonely Planet Budapest more books like this

by Steve Fallon

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.

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The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II more books like this

by Krisztian Ungvary, John Lukacs (Foreword by)

The definitive history of one of the fiercest battles of World War II

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To See You Again: A True Story of Love in a Time of War more books like this

by Betty Schimmel, Joyce Gabriel

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.

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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts more books like this

by Julian Rubinstein

The chaotic milieu of post-communist Hungary is explored through this astonishing and humorous true story of how a struggling jack-of-all-trades became a successful bank robber and, as a result, a folk hero. An ethnic Hungarian born in Romania, Attila Ambrus crossed illegally into Hungary, where he had a great deal of trouble finding work. When he ...

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