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The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty by Natasha Wheatley
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $67.89An 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: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.46Culture 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... -
Katalin Street: WINNER of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize Magda Szabo 9780857058478
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.44BY 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,... -
Austro-Hungarian Battleships 1914-18 Ryan K. Noppen 9781849086882
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.29Austria-Hungary did not have an overseas empire; its empire lay within its own boundaries and the primary purpose of its navy until the beginning of the twentieth century was the defense of its coastline. As its merchant marine dramatically grew,... -
Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation since 1945 by Paul Lendvai 9781805260592
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.60Austria 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... -
Hitler's Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man by Brigitte Hamann 9781848852778
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $28.90What 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... -
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: $63.00Booksplease Price: $44.98In 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... -
Germany Ascendant by Prit Buttar
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.61A 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... -
The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $36.75The 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... -
In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters by Nancy Goldstone
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.57In 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... -
Twelve Days: Revolution 1956. How the Hungarians tried to topple their Soviet masters by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.44The 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 Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe by Stephen Harding
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $23.12SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREMay, 1945. Hitler is dead, the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble, and no GI wants to be the last man killed in action against the Nazis. The Last Battle tells the nearly unbelievable story of the unlikeliest... -
Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938 by Janek Wasserman 9781501713606
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $33.64Interwar 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... -
Austria 1867-1955 by John W. Boyer 9780198221296
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $73.00Austria 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 Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy by Larry Wolff
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $36.62A 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... -
The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady 9781541644502
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $50.38Apologies 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 -
Orbanland: Why Viktor Orban's Hungary Matters by Lasse Skytt
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.75From 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... -
Imperial Rule by Alexei Miller 9789639241985
RRP: $44.00Booksplease Price: $40.97Renowned academics compare major features of imperial rule in the 19th century, reflecting a significant shift away from nationalism and toward empires in the studies of state building. The book responds to the current interest in multi-unit formations,... -
The United States of Belgium: The Story of the First Belgian Revolution by Jane C. Judge 9789462701571
RRP: $102.90Booksplease Price: $98.22In 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: $42.00Booksplease Price: $37.30When 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 Austrian Revolution by Otto Bauer 9781642591620
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $40.43This 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... -
Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen 9780307277954
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277954Author Victor SebestyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 337gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Did America Have a Christian Founding?: Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth Mark David Hall 9781400211135
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.08A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.In 2010,... -
The Fawn by Magda Szabó 9781529425642
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $21.57LONGLISTED 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"... -
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: $63.00Booksplease Price: $44.98On 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... -
The Will to Survive: A History of Hungary by Bryan Cartledge
RRP: $47.25Booksplease Price: $43.85The 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... -
Minority Hungarian Communities in the Twentieth Century by Nandor Bardi 9780880336772
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $113.78The authors review the twentieth-century history of Hungarian communities that became minorities within Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Austria after World War I. They trace these developments over ninety years of social, political, economic,... -
Thunder at Twilight by Frederic Morton 9780306823268
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $39.59Thunder 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... -
Battle for Budapest 1944 - 1945 by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781473877320
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $23.16The desperate struggle between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army for Budapest in 1944 and 1945 was as lethal and destructive as any of the urban battles fought during the Second World War. The losses of men and equipment sustained by the Germans were so... -
Trust and Deceit: A Tale of Survival in Slovakia and Hungary, 1939-1945 by Gerta Vrbova 9780853036302
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $31.00Apologies 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 Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Murder that Changed the World by Greg King 9781447201472 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $5.57In 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... -
Vienna a Cultural and Literary History by Nicholas T. Parsons 9781904955450
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $28.88From 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,... -
Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union (Eighth Edition) by Yisrael Gutman
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $65.90These 213 documents on the theory, planning, and execution of, and reaction and resistance to, the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews date from the 1920s through the closing days of World War II and focus on the experience of eastern Europe. The... -
Hell in the Trenches: Austro-Hungarian Stormtroopers and Italian Arditi in the Great War by Paolo Morisi 9781912174980
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $44.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174980Author Paolo MorisiFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Schoenberg: Why He Matters by Harvey Sachs
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $40.91In his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestras rarely play his works, and his name is met with... -
The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna by David Wyn Jones 9781009276474
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $54.71The 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... -
Rilke: The Last Inward Man by Lesley Chamberlain
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.94When 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 Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation by Isaac Nakhimovsky 9780691195193
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $58.25A major new account of the post-Napoleonic Holy Alliance and the promise it held for liberalsThe Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In this book, Isaac Nakhimovsky reveals the Enlightenment origins of this... -
The Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867-1918 by John W. Mason 9780582294660
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $80.93This book charts the history of the last fifty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867 to 1918. it reveals that the Habsburg Monarchy, though not in a healthy state before 1914, was not in fact doomed to collapse. The author examines foreign and... -
Panzerwrecks 20: Ostfront 3 by Lee Archer 9781908032140
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032140Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 420g