Austria & Hungary
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The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
$21.99 Add to cartIn 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the “Golden Apple,” as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventee… [more below]
- Author: Wheatcroft, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 046502081X
- Language: English
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Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe’s First Family
$38.00 Read moreA spirited, poignant history of the seven daughters of the great Empress Maria Theresia–among them, Queen Marie Antoinette of France–tracing their lives as they balanced dynastic duty with personal … [more below]
- Author: Buckley, Veronica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0525561900
- Language: English
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The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
$32.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the national bestseller The Dark Queens, an incandescent work of true crime and feminist history about the woman alleged to be the world’s most prolific female serial killer.
There- Author: Puhak, Shelley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1639732152
- Language: English
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No Jews Live Here
$18.95 Add to cartNOMINEE FOR THE HERITAGE TORONTO 2025 BOOK AWARD
A stolen sign, ‘No Jews Live Here, ‘ kept John Lorinc’s Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust.
From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, jo
- Author: Lorinc, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1552454924
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Budapest: The Destruction of Europe’s Most Cosmopolitan Capital in World War II
$35.00 Add to cart“The Last Days of Budapest is a masterpiece. Immaculately researched, it is packed with large-than-life characters and revelations about the unknown espionage history of the Second World War…. This … [more below]
- Author: LeBor, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1541700589
- Language: English
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
$18.00 Add to cartA National Book Award Finalist
A “riveting” (New York Times) look at one year of Viennese life during the twilight of an empire On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Car- Author: Morton, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 30 1980
- ISBN10: 014005667X
- Language: English
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
$24.00 Add to cartHow can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architect- Author: Cockett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300279361
- Language: English
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Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity
$18.95 Read moreThe personal and professional life of Bruno Kreisky (1911-1990), Austria’s long-serving Socialist chancellor from August 1970 to May 1983, has been the focus of many books and articles. However, his a
- Author: Aschheim, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 225
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1608012425
- Language: English
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Rilke: The Last Inward Man
$19.95 Read moreAn incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetry
When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed- Author: Chamberlain, Lesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1782277218
- Language: English
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Vienna. Portrait of a City
$70.00 Read moreVienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the Danube, has been defined by vast palaces and imperial grandeur–but be
- Author: Hirsch, Andreas J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: October 30 2019
- ISBN10: 3836567261
- Language: English
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Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time
$66.58 Read moreA major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule
Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-t- Author: Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691179069
- Language: English
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Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
$24.95 Read more“A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis…Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration–good statesmanship is needed more than ever.”
–Bren- Author: Siemann, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292189
- Language: English
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The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People
$17.00 Add to cartThe Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping. His classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising is as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glo
- Author: Michener, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0812986741
- Language: English
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The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music
$29.95 Add to cartA story about a piano and its most prodigious player–and how they both survived one of the darkest periods in history.
When her father died, singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano sh
- Author: de Bastion, Roxanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1639366873
- 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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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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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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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
