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Hitler's Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man by Brigitte Hamann 9781848852778
RRP: $48.75$25.02What 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 the critical, formative, years that the young Hitler... -
Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals by James Longo 9781635766509
RRP: $25.33$18.92Now 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 Will to Survive: A History of Hungary by Bryan Cartledge
RRP: $43.88$40.79The Will to Survive describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequent tragedies of its eventful history to become a... -
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by Wolfram Siemann
RRP: $40.85$34.87"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... -
Germany Ascendant by Prit Buttar
RRP: $33.13$26.44A 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: $58.50$52.55Austria 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... -
Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust by Jan Tomasz Gross
RRP: $24.36$17.08It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group,... -
Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matth us Hetzenauer by Kaltenegger, Roland 9781784387945
RRP: $29.23$21.35Eastern 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 Mercurial Emperor: The Magic Circle of Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague by Peter Marshall
RRP: $33.13$23.95In 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... -
The Austrian Revolution by Otto Bauer 9781642591620
RRP: $48.73$36.86This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer's magisterial work -- available in English for the first time in full -- charts the evolution... -
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: $58.50$41.63On 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... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 3: Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, February-May 1945 by Douglas E. Nash Sr.
RRP: $58.50$47.46In the closing months of World War II, with Budapest's fall on 12 February 1945 and the breakout attempt by the IX SS-Gebirgskorps having failed, the only thing the IV. SS-Panzerkorps could do was fall back to a more defensible line and fortify the key... -
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder that Changed the World by Greg King 9781447201472 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23$5.17In The Assassination of the Archduke, Greg King and Sue Woolmans offer readers a vivid account of the lives - and cruel deaths - of Franz Ferdinand and his beloved Sophie. Combining royal biography, romance, and political assassination, the story unfolds... -
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder
RRP: $29.23$21.70Longlisted 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 Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady 9781541644502
RRP: $68.25$40.21Apologies 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 -
From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism by Bruce F. Pauley 9780807847138
RRP: $107.25$100.50According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by... -
Austria 1867-1955 by John W. Boyer 9780198221296
RRP: $77.98$68.70Austria 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... -
The United States of Belgium: The Story of the First Belgian Revolution by Jane C. Judge 9789462701571
RRP: $95.55$91.20In 1790, between the birth of America (1776) and the creation of the French National Assembly (1789), nine provinces nestled between the French and Dutch borders declared themselves a new free and independent country: the United States of Belgium... -
Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain 9781782277248
RRP: $39.00$34.36When 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 Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna by David Wyn Jones 9781009276474
RRP: $58.50$51.38The 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 Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body by Alys X. George
RRP: $54.60$53.41Uncovers the interplay of the physical and the aesthetic that shaped Viennese modernism and offers a new interpretation of this moment in the history of the West. Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-siecle fascination with the... -
Ten Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-Torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai by Vivian Jeanette Kaplan 9780312330552
RRP: $33.13$25.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312330552Author Vivian Jeanette KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 381g -
The End of the Habsburgs: The Decline and Fall of the Austrian Monarchy by John Van der Kiste 9781781557709
RRP: $48.75$34.36In 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... -
The Fawn by Magda Szabó 9781529425642
RRP: $29.23$19.11LONGLISTED 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"... -
The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell
RRP: $42.90$33.85The 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... -
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: $44.83$34.65The 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... -
Trust and Deceit: A Tale of Survival in Slovakia and Hungary, 1939-1945 by Gerta Vrbova 9780853036302
RRP: $29.15$22.70Apologies 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)... -
Vienna a Cultural and Literary History by Nicholas T. Parsons 9781904955450
RRP: $29.25$26.62From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Habsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Monarchy,... -
The Holy Roman Empire: A Short History by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger 9780691217314
RRP: $33.13$26.62From acclaimed historian Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, an incomparable introduction to this momentous period in the history of EuropeThe Holy Roman Empire emerged in the Middle Ages as a loosely integrated union of German states and city-states under the... -
The Invisible Shining: The Cult of Matyas Rakosi in Stalinist Hungary, 19451956 by Balazs Apor
RRP: $175.50$161.89This 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... -
The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Antoine Lilti
RRP: $53.61$48.13The 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... -
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire by Dominique Kirchner Reill 9780674244245
RRP: $60.35$48.40Recasting 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... -
Thunder at Twilight by Frederic Morton 9780306823268
RRP: $48.73$34.20Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a... -
Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain
RRP: $25.33$16.69When 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... -
Nine Suitcases Bela Zsolt 9780712606899
RRP: $31.18$22.64Originally 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 Last Muslim Conquest: The Ottoman Empire and Its Wars in Europe by Gábor Ágoston 9780691205397
RRP: $48.75$38.20A monumental work of history that reveals the Ottoman dynasty's important role in the emergence of early modern EuropeThe Ottomans have long been viewed as despots who conquered through sheer military might, and whose dynasty was peripheral to those of... -
The Emperors: How Europe's Rulers Were Destroyed by the First World War by Gareth Russell
RRP: $21.43$14.14On 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... -
The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler by Thomas Weyr 9780195146790
RRP: $63.36$62.81When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938, he called the city "a pearl to which he would give a proper setting." But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction-a physical, spiritual, and... -
Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars by Lisa Silverman 9780190257811
RRP: $67.26$61.72The collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918 left all Austrians in a state of political, social, and economic turmoil, but Jews in particular found their lives shaken to the core. Although Jews' former comfort zone suddenly disappeared, the dissolution of the... -
The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People by James A. Michener 9780812986747
RRP: $27.28$19.71Apologies 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