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The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power by Martyn Rady
RRP: £12.99£9.09'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to Habsburg history' Alan Sked, Times Literary SupplementIn... -
Budapest: Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: £12.99£7.51Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions and of civilizations, at the intersection of ancient trade routes. Mountains that gradually slope into gentle hills converge on a... -
Hitler: A Global Biography by Brendan Simms 9780465022373
£25.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465022373Author Brendan SimmsFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)... -
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger 9781399803304
RRP: £20.00£11.65'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS'Compelling' DAILY MAIL, BOOK OF THE WEEK'I SEEK A... -
Abigail Magda Szabo 9780857058492
RRP: £9.99£6.80A teenage girl's difficult journey towards adulthood in a time of war."A school story for grownups that is also about our inability or refusal to protect children from history" SARAH MOSS"Of all Szabo's novels, Abigail deserves the widest readership... -
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro 9780465057955
£21.18The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array of languages and lugging outdated weapons, the... -
DK Eyewitness Hungary DK Eyewitness 9780241306246
RRP: £14.99£10.95The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Hungary.Experience luxurious spas, wander the historic Castle District in Budapest or explore the immense Hortobagy... -
Parallel Lines: A Journey from Childhood to Belsen Peter Lantos 9781905147571
RRP: £9.99£6.80"I have read few autobiographies more extraordinary . . . Astonishing" OBSERVER"A classic. I preferred it to Primo Levi's If This is a Man" EDWARD WILSON"A child's clear-eyed journey to hell" ANNE SEBBAThis is a story of a young boy's journey from a... -
Siege of Budapest 1944-45: The Brutal Battle for the Pearl of the Danube by Balazs Mihalyi
RRP: £15.99£11.61A gripping and detailed study of the brutal urban battle for Budapest, which saw German and Hungarian troops struggling to halt the joint Soviet-Romanian offensive to take the key city on the Danube. The 52-day-long siege of Budapest witnessed some of... -
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £12.99£8.48The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th... -
Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
RRP: £35.00£29.34A major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and ruleMaria Theresa (1717-1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-three, she ascended to the throne of the Habsburg... -
Vienna: The International Capital by Angus Robertson
RRP: £25.00£16.99Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge- building... -
The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire by Andrew Wheatcroft
RRP: £12.99£9.09The 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,... -
The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty by Natasha Wheatley
RRP: £38.00£32.59An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world orderSprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The... -
Austria - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Peter Gieler 9781857338676
RRP: £8.99£6.84Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on... -
Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938 by Janek Wasserman 9781501713606
RRP: £17.99£15.90Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a "Black... -
The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter M. Judson
RRP: £23.95£19.54A EuropeNow Editor's PickA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"Pieter M. Judson's book informs and stimulates. If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the... -
The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: £14.99£10.95A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a hetergeneous population... -
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914-1918 by Alexander Watson
RRP: £18.99£14.01Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2014Winner of the 2014 Wolfson History Prize, the 2014 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, the Society for Military History's 2015 Distinguished Book Award and the 2015 British Army Military Book of the... -
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder 9780330522793
RRP: £12.99£9.26For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals,... -
Katalin Street: WINNER of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize Magda Szabo 9780857058478
RRP: £10.99£7.40BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOOR, ONE OF NYTBR'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2015** WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE **** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WARWICK WOMEN IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2019 **"Extraordinary" New York Times"Quite unforgettable" Daily Telegraph"Unusual,... -
The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Martyn Rady
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Habsburgs are the most famous dynasty in continental Europe. From the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, they ruled much of Central Europe, and for two centuries were also rulers of Spain. Through the Spanish connection, they acquired lands... -
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann 9780674743922
RRP: £33.95£29.82A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of the nineteenth century, famous for his alleged archconservatism, as a friend of realpolitik and reform, pursuing international peace.Metternich has a... -
In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters by Nancy Goldstone
RRP: £14.99£7.77In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor general of... -
Poverty in Ireland, 1837: A Hungarian's View : Szegenyseg Irlandban by Baron Jozsef Eotvos 9781908420206
RRP: £25.00£18.09In 1837, the power of Daniel O'Connell's oratory focused the attention of Europeans on Ireland. They were horrified at what they saw there. The Irish poor - a third of the population - had no food except the potatoes they grew, and not enough... -
The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy by Larry Wolff
RRP: £20.99£17.77A 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 exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau... -
Fin De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske
RRP: £22.50£17.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 1981.Book InformationISBN 9780394744780Author Carl E. SchorskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA... -
The Red Army in Austria: The Soviet Occupation, 1945–1955 by Stefan Karner 9781793626608
RRP: £30.00£26.68Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the Soviet Secret... -
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford
RRP: £30.00£20.70Jan Swafford's biographies of composers Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of... -
Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural History by Steven Beller
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book studies the role played by Jews in the explosion of cultural innovation in Vienna at the turn of the century, which had its roots in the years following the Ausgleich of 1867 and its demise in the sweeping events of the 1930s. Dr Beller shows... -
The Photographer at Sixteen: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020 by George Szirtes
RRP: £10.99£7.40A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**"A truly remarkable book . . . fiercely compelling"... -
The Angel Makers: The True Story of the Most Astonishing Murder Ring in History by Patti McCracken 9780008579562
RRP: £10.99£7.25A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023 A Waterstones Best True Crime Book Nagyrev, Hungary, 1929. Over 160 mysterious deaths. A group of local wives conspiring together, and one woman at the centre of it all... ... -
For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918 by Richard Bassett 9780300219678 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£7.57The definitive history of Austria's multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett's For God and Kaiser... -
For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918 by Richard Bassett
RRP: £17.99£15.79The definitive history of Austria's multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett's For God and Kaiser... -
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500 by Peter H. Wilson 9780674987623
RRP: £39.95£26.83From the author of the acclaimed The Thirty Years War and Heart of Europe, a masterful, landmark reappraisal of German military history, and of the preconceptions about German militarism since before the rise of Prussia and the world wars.German military... -
Twelve Days: Revolution 1956. How the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet masters by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: £10.99£7.40The defining moment of the Cold War: 'The beginning of the end of the Soviet empire.' (Richard Nixon)The Hungarian Revolution in 1956 is a story of extraordinary bravery in a fight for freedom, and of ruthless cruelty in suppressing a popular dream. A... -
The Sword Behind the Shield: A Combat History of the German Efforts to Relieve Budapest 1945 - Operation 'Konrad' I, III, III by Norbert Szamveber 9781914059247
£37.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059247Author Norbert SzamveberFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Collision of Empires by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was undoubtedly the myriad alliances and suspicions that existed between the... -
Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati 9780804759649
RRP: £19.99£16.09Winner of the 2007 Marshall Shulman Prize 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... -
Orbanland: Why Viktor Orban's Hungary Matters by Lasse Skytt
RRP: £11.99£8.00From Europe to America, political landscapes have shifted in recent years in a way summed up in microcosm no better than by the trajectory of one small country, Hungary--whose leader, Viktor Orban, has gained outsized international notoriety as the bad...