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A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918
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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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Bridge at Andau
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James A Michener
Michener's documentary account of the Hungarian revolt against the Communists in 1956 is virulently anti-Russian.
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Csardas
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Diane Pearson
A saga about two Hungarian sisters whose lives are shattered by the First World War. First published in 1975.
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A Book of Memories
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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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The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II
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Krisztian Ungvary, John Lukacs (Foreword by)
The definitive history of one of the fiercest battles of World War II
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A history of Europe
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J. M. Roberts
A history of the nations of the European continent from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day, written by a distinguished professor of history at Oxford University. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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The Book of Fathers
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Miklos Vamos
Twelve men - running in direct line line from father to eldest son, who in turn becomes a father - are the heroes of this wonderful family saga which runs over 300 years' panorama of Hungarian life and history. Each man also passes to his son certain unusual gifts: the ability to see the past, and in some cases to see the future too. The fathers ...
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The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866
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Geoffrey Wawro
This is a new history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. It is based upon extensive new research in the state and military archives of Austria, Germany, and Italy. Geoffrey Wawro describes Prussia's successful invasion of Habsburg Venetia, and the wretched collapse of the Austrian ...
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Maiden of the Wolf
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Tiffany Trent, Angelika Ranger
Werewolves are on the hunt in this next volume of Hallowmere... With the culmination of "Between Golden Jaws," Corrine and all of her friends are thrown into separate fairy worlds. Ilona finds herself in one of these raths, a world controlled by an evil countess so obsessed by youth, she sacrifices young girls to draw their life force into her ...
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The Habsburgs
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Professor Andrew Wheatcroft
The Habsburgs have been described at one extreme as demons - responsible for a 'long history of atrocities'; and, at the other, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. In reality, the flamboyant royal family appear, in many ways, to have behaved much like most other monarchies. Their story, however, is none the less ...
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The Blood Confession
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Alisa Libby
In this brilliant fiction debut, Libby resurrects the real-life Erzebet Bathory, a 17th-century countess who believed that bathing in human blood would preserve her looks forever.
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Vanished Empire: Vienna, Budapest, Prague: The Three Capital Cities of the Habsburg Empire as Seen Today
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Stephen Brook
Brook presents his view of Budapest, Vienna, and Prague, looking at the many aspects of life in each--the food and wine, the culture, the architecture, the politics, and the people. He notes the contrast between the overpowering historic remnants of each city and the everyday lives of its citizens.
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The Siege of Vienna
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John Stoye
The Siege of Vienna in 1683 was one of the turning points in European history. This story if peopled with characters from Kara Mustafa, the ruthless Grand Vizier, and Count Starhemberg, commander of the garrison, to Emperor Leopold and John Sobieski.
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A short course in the secret war.
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Christopher Felix
The thinking man's spy book. --The New York Times Book Review
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Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
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Carl E Schorske
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A History of Hungary
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Peter F. Sugar, Péter Hanák
This comprehensive reference work provides readers with a range of essays on the political, economic and cultural development of Hungary from the settlement of the Carpathian Basin to the country's emergence from Communism unto a multi-party state in 1989.
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A Concise History of Hungary
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Miklos Molnar, Anna Magyar (Translator)
This 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 elections of 1988. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people which became a great power in the region and then fought against - and was invaded by - Ottomans, Germans ...
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The Habsburg Empire, 1790-1918
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Carlile Aylmer Macartney
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Rudolf II and his world : a study in intellectual history 1576-1612
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R. J. W. Evans
Rudolf II of Hapsburg, Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was an extraordinary ruler, a monarch whose court occupied a central position in 16th-century Europe - yet he remained a shadowy and fugitive figure. The decades around 1600 saw sweeping cultural changes in Europe, with the waning of an old-world view and the beginnings of the ...
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Hungary: The Unwilling Satellite
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John Flournoy Montgomery
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One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy
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Paul Lendvai, Ann Major (Translator)
On October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. Only now, fifty years after those harrowing events, can the full story be told. This book is a powerful eyewitness account and a gripping history of the uprising in Hungary that ...
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A History of Hungary: Millennium in Central Europe
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Laszlo Kontler
The most up-to-date and wide-ranging survey of Hungarian history, from pre-historic times to the present day.
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The Spirit of Hungary: A Panorama of Hungarian History and Culture
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Eastern Europe
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The Hapsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary
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Alan J P Taylor
First published in 1941, "The Habsburg Monarchy" has become indispensable to students of nineteenth-century European history. Not only a chronological report of actions and changes, Taylor's work is a provocative exploration into the historical process of the most eventful hundred years of the Habsburg monarchy.
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