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Fin De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske
RRP: $29.03$25.10Apologies 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... -
Germany Ascendant by Prit Buttar
RRP: $21.92$16.36A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele... -
Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation since 1945 by Paul Lendvai 9781805260592
RRP: $38.70$34.09Austria has long been considered a European success story: a land-locked country on the losing side of World War Two, which emerged from ten years of post-war occupation as one of the EU's richest member-states, a symbol of social consensus and political... -
Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matth us Hetzenauer by Kaltenegger, Roland 9781784387945
RRP: $19.34$14.13Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II's most accomplished snipers. Math us Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve... -
South Tyrol: A Minority Conflict of the Twentieth Century by Rolf Steininger
RRP: $56.75$51.08South Tyrol, a region in the heart of the Alps about half the size of Connecticut, brings into sharp focus an important part of twentieth-century history. Tyrol, a province that had been part of Austria for over 500 years and was almost totally... -
The Mercurial Emperor: The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague by Peter Marshall
RRP: $21.92$15.84In the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great minds of his... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 2: Volume II: the Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps in the Budapest Relief Efforts, December 1944-February 1945 by Sr. Nash
RRP: $38.70$24.78On Christmas Eve 1944, the men of the IV SS-Panzerkorps were preparing to celebrate the occasion as best they could. Taking advantage of the pause in the fighting around Warsaw, they looked forward to partaking in that most German of holidays, including... -
Eastern Front Sniper by Roland Kaltenegger 9781784382162
RRP: $25.79$18.42Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II s most accomplished snipers. Math us Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924/. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve... -
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire by Dominique Kirchner Reill 9780674244245
RRP: $39.93$31.39Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation.The Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of... -
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder
RRP: $16.76$11.64Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction'Funny, erudite, frequently irritating . . . and never boring' - Sarah Bakewell, Financial Times 'An excellent, rich and amusing read' - The Times, Book of the WeekFor centuries much of Europe was in... -
The Political Orchestra: The Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics During the Third Reich by Fritz Trumpi
RRP: $56.76$54.53This is a groundbreaking study of the prestigious Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics during the Third Reich. Making extensive use of archival material, including some discussed here for the very first time, Fritz Tr mpi offers new insight into the... -
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady 9781541644502
RRP: $41.28$27.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541644502Author Martyn RadyFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 150mm * 38mm -
Austria 1867-1955 by John W. Boyer 9780198221296
RRP: $49.01$43.31Austria 1867-1955 connects the political history of German-speaking provinces of the Habsburg Empire before 1914 (Vienna and the Alpine Lands) with the history of the Austrian Republic that emerged in 1918. John W. Boyer presents the case of modern... -
Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West by Victor Sebestyen 9780593317563
RRP: $45.15$28.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593317563Author Victor SebestyenFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 162mm... -
Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain 9781782277248
RRP: $25.80$18.43When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, too inward. In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses... -
The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy by Larry Wolff
RRP: $28.37$23.93A 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... -
Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals by James Longo 9781635766509
RRP: $16.76$12.51Now in paperback, a stunning work of narrative history revealing how and why Adolf Hitler targeted the children of the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, making the Archduke's sons the first two Austrians deported to the Dachau concentration camp,... -
The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna by David Wyn Jones 9781009276474
RRP: $38.70$34.93The music of the Strauss family - Johann and his three sons, Johann, Josef and Eduard - enjoys enormous popular appeal. Yet existing biographies have failed to do justice to the family's true significance in nineteenth and early twentieth-century musical... -
The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People by James A. Michener 9780812986747
RRP: $18.05$14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986747Author James A. MichenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron by Deborah S. Cornelius
RRP: $45.15$39.42The story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a much larger narrative-one that has never before been fully recounted for a non-Hungarian readership. As told by Deborah Cornelius, it is a fascinating tale of rise and fall, of hopes... -
Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie Perloff 9780226566177
RRP: $29.67$28.55Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the... -
The End of the Habsburgs: The Decline and Fall of the Austrian Monarchy by John Van der Kiste 9781781557709
RRP: $32.25$22.73In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when Francis II became Emperor of Austria. 112 years later, the Habsburg empire collapsed after the First World War after surviving many tribulations. During the year of revolutions in 1848 the much-loved... -
Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural History by Steven Beller
RRP: $29.66$28.24This 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 Fawn by Magda Szabó 9781529425642
RRP: $19.34$11.02LONGLISTED FOR THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION 2023"One of Hungary's most important twentieth-century writers" New York Times"Magda Szabo's fiction shows the travails of modern Hungarian history from oblique but sharply illuminating angles"... -
Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe by Kevin J. McNamara
RRP: $29.66$20.09The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." ,Winston S. ChurchillIn 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by... -
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann
RRP: $27.03$22.60"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."-Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal"Brilliantly refreshes our... -
Edge of Irony: Modernism in the Shadow of the Habsburg Empire by Marjorie Perloff
RRP: $103.20$98.83Among the brilliant writers and thinkers who emerged from the multicultural and multilingual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. For them, the trauma of World War I included the sudden loss of the... -
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro 9780465028351
$26.05The 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... -
Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt
RRP: $20.63$14.98Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt's harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness and a devastating... -
The Invisible Shining: The Cult of Matyas Rakosi in Stalinist Hungary, 19451956 by Balazs Apor
RRP: $116.10$105.29This book offers a detailed analysis of the construction, reception, and eventual decline of the cult of the Hungarian Communist Party Secretary, Matyas Rakosi, one of the most striking examples of orchestrated adulation in the Soviet bloc. While his... -
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna by Noah Isenberg
RRP: $25.80$20.83A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard"A revelation."-Marc Weingarten, Washington PostAcclaimed film director Billy Wilder's early writings-brilliantly translated into English for the first timeBefore Billy Wilder became the... -
The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Antoine Lilti
RRP: $32.88$29.61The world of the eighteenth-century salon has long been lauded as a meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created the Enlightenment. In The World of the Salons, historian Antoine Lilti proposes a fresh interpretation of salons in... -
Magyar Warriors Vol 2: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces 1919-1945 by Denes Bernad 9781804513798
RRP: $45.15$31.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513798Author Denes BernadFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati 9780804759649
RRP: $28.37$21.85Winner 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... -
East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1943–1991 by Sabrina P. Ramet 9781032318202
RRP: $46.43$40.88The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote... -
Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain
RRP: $16.76$11.04When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, too inward. In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses... -
The Emperors: How Europe's Rulers Were Destroyed by the First World War by Gareth Russell
RRP: $14.18$9.35On 28 June 1914, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated on a visit to Sarajevo by a Serbian nationalist called Gavrilo Princip. The assassination set in motion the events that led to the outbreak of the First World War, one of the... -
Trust and Deceit: A Tale of Survival in Slovakia and Hungary, 1939-1945 by Gerta Vrbova 9780853036302
RRP: $19.29$15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853036302Author Gerta VrbovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
RRP: $27.03$21.36By the author who inspired Wes Anderson's 2014 film, The Grand Budapest HotelWritten as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna-its seeming permanence, its... -
The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell
RRP: $28.38$21.92The Habsburg Empire's grand strategy for outmaneuvering and outlasting stronger rivals in a complicated geopolitical worldThe Empire of Habsburg Austria faced more enemies than any other European great power. Flanked on four sides by rivals, it possessed...