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Man's Search for Meaning Best Price: $3.95 From the perspective of a member in a culture consumed in the "existential vacuum",... | Man's Search for Meaning Best Price: $12.22 I first read this book in college many years ago as I was working on my degree in psychology. An... | The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke Best Price: $15.73 Many of us are nostalgic about the Hababurgs, especially when we have considered the awful... | Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris Best Price: $13.59 Kershaw undertakes three major tasks in the first volume of this outstanding biography. The... | Vienna 1683: Christian Europe Repels the Ottomans (Campaign) Best Price: $13.56 Destroing, literally, turkich mitary surroudning Vienna, on urgent request of the Pope send to... |
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius Best Price: $11.16 I am surprised by how, it seems to me, Monk distorts or reinterprets what the memoirs and... | Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis Best Price: $14.39 The second volume of Kershaw's outstanding biography of Hitler covers the period from 1936 to... | A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 Best Price: $6.99 A marvellous, exciting and extremely well written summary of a major and influential time in... | Fin-De-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture Best Price: $12.50 We are drawn to Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century because of Adolf Hitler, as much as... | Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 Best Price: $5.00 It feels cruel to be overly critical about this book because I can't imagine the author wrote... |
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W.A. Mozart Best Price: $33.00 I am someone who considers Mozart to be our "greatest" composer, in fact probably a... | Ten Green Bottles: The True Story of One Family's Journey from War-torn Austria to the Ghettos of Shanghai Best Price: $4.79 The account of a Jewish familys' descent in Vienna through the Nazi hell to the foreign shores... | Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust Best Price: $13.00 Anna Porter has done a great job in bringing this story of a hero of the Holocaust to her readers. | World of Yesterday Best Price: $12.30 Stefan Zweig writes a great memoir about the world before the Nazi Destruction of Europe. He... | Bridge at Andau Best Price: $3.26 This book is one of the best books I've ever read. Not only was it entertaining, but it carries... |
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The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent Best Price: $8.72 Rather looks like a turn paper of a quite average-college standard.
Also, the reference index... | Collector's Guide to Pez: Identification and Price Guide, 3rd Edition Best Price: $13.89 This is a great update for anyones collection, I have many new Pez
dispensers that are now... | The Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria Best Price: $11.63 I enjoyed the book. It was well written and obviously well researched.
I like the way it had... | Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture Best Price: $8.00 In many of his books, Lukacs sets out to write a multi-disciplinary history (drawing on... | The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival Best Price: $5.55 I was unfamiliar with the Kindertransport that moved 10,000 Jewish children to safety from the... |
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Lepanto 1571: The Greatest Naval Battle Of The Renaissance (Campaign) Best Price: $11.79 Great story and the book gets right to the point. Although I'm not so sure about the author's... | Beethoven: The Universal Composer (Eminent Lives) Best Price: $5.65 Edmund Morris' biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, part of the "Eminent Lives" series,... | Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (California Studies in the History of Science) Best Price: $20.00 It is well known that in the fields of both science and math, women are less visible than men.... | The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology Best Price: $18.90 Great book. Well researched and sheds light on how myths can be so powerful. Unfortunately it... | The Habsburgs Best Price: $7.56 Unlike most histories of the Austian-Spanish-Burgundian-Low Country-Holy Roman Emporers, who... |
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Last Waltz in Vienna Best Price: $14.85 This well-written, incisive, and even-handed telling of the author's Klaar family in Austria,... | A Concise History of Austria (Cambridge Concise Histories) Best Price: $10.00 An interesting and easy to understand book on the history of Austria. This is the kind of book... | Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections Best Price: $39.00 Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918), while popular and admired in his time, suffered a period of being... | Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living Best Price: $11.06 For those curious about the man behind the famous book Man's Search for Meaning, this solid,... | Recollections: An Autobiography Best Price: $5.40 If you have read Man's Search for Meaning, this autobioraphical reflection from Frankl is very... |
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Freud: A Life for Our Time Best Price: $13.60 This book describes Freud`s life with deep insight, and you can review the European history at... | To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander Best Price: $13.56 This is reasonably light read broken into bite-size chapters covering a variety of experiences... | A Concise History of Hungary (Cambridge Concise Histories) Best Price: $17.69 This is a surprisingly fine book. It is lively and concise. It is efficient, covering all major... | Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes?: A Tale of Two Schools of Free Market Economics Best Price: $13.95 In this book Mark Skousen compares and contrasts the ideas of the two most prominent schools of... | The Fall of the House of Habsburg Best Price: $0.49 One of Crankshaw's best, this forthrightly conservative and sympathetic book is premised on the... |
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1791: Mozart's Last Year Best Price: $10.13 This is a good book to read late at night, in the woods, alone. If you enjoy Mozart then...you... | Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Vintage) Best Price: $8.98 Alexis de Toqueville said the most dangerous moment for an autocratic government is when it... | Unended Quest (Routledge Classics) Best Price: $6.49 Routledge Classics has done us all - fans of clear thinking, clear writing and great literature... | The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938 Best Price: $24.00 Anyone with a serious interest in the late Habsburg Empire, Austria-Hungary, or Viennese culture... | Collecting Swarovski: Identification & Price Guide (Identification and Value Guides (Krause)) Best Price: $7.53 While I think this is such a beautifully done book with great photos, descriptions, prices and... |
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Leap into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe Best Price: $7.89 an incredible story about the human spirit and the will to live against all odds. | The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat Best Price: $22.49 I have been studying Hungary for over a decade and this book was still able to introduce new... | Danube (Panther) Best Price: $11.32 The best book of an age is a brave new form of imagination and wisdom. "Danube" is a... | The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II Best Price: $11.99 The author has done an outstanding job of writing about the little known siege of Budapest... | The Good Soldier: From Austrian Social Democracy to Communist Captivity with a Soldier of Panzer-Grenadier Division "Grossdeutschland" Best Price: $8.99 More of a lifetime biography than a war biography, which is fine . Like I say, it is worth... |
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The War of the Austrian Succession Best Price: $16.20 I enjoyed reading this book, simply because there isn't too many books out there on the War of... | Early Modern Spain: A Documentary History Best Price: $21.50 Spain as a political entity can be traced to the joining of the two largest Iberian kingdoms... | The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire, 1815-1918 (2nd Edition) I bought the second edition under the misleading impression that the contents will be updated,... | Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union (Eighth Edition) Best Price: $18.00 An interesting book. The first section describes the gradual tightening of legal restrictions on... | ESSLING: Napoleon's First Defeat? (Men & Battles) Best Price: $14.80 May 1809. After getting off to a thundering start with his campaign, Napoleon had to carry out a... |
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Klimt (World of Art) Best Price: $3.70 | The Schubert Song Companion Best Price: $18.67 .
For those who have the time and intellectual inclination, suggest you pair this book with... | Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream Best Price: $23.47 There are only two things to say about this book on Gruen the Mall Maker: 1) The writing must be... | Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph Best Price: $5.00 As a regular reader of biographies (just finished a wonderful book on Talleyrand), was really... | The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust Best Price: $3.45 This book was recommended by a friend, and while it came highly-rated, I hesitated to read it... |
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Wittgenstein's Vienna Best Price: $10.50 This is a dazzlingly dense intellectual history of a time when there was an explosion of new... | | | | |