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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account Best Price: $7.04 The problem with this book is that it thrusts a very negative and dark side of life into all... | Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz Best Price: $8.27 This review is based on the original (1947) edition. Let's focus on some seldom-developed... | 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... | PANZERSCHLACHT: Armoured Operations on the Hungarian Plains September-November 1944 Best Price: $37.75 The major tank battles on the Hungarian plains fought in late 1944 have been neglected, for some... | A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 Best Price: $6.75 A marvellous, exciting and extremely well written summary of a major and influential time in... |
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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... | 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 Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria Best Price: $11.07 I enjoyed the book. It was well written and obviously well researched.
I like the way it had... | The Habsburgs Best Price: $7.60 Unlike most histories of the Austian-Spanish-Burgundian-Low Country-Holy Roman Emporers, who... | Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Vintage) Best Price: $6.94 Alexis de Toqueville said the most dangerous moment for an autocratic government is when it... |
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The War of the Austrian Succession Best Price: $18.00 I enjoyed reading this book, simply because there isn't too many books out there on the War of... | The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat Best Price: $22.50 I often wondered why Hungary and Hungarians have such poor public relations, particularly in the... | Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph Best Price: $5.07 As a regular reader of biographies (just finished a wonderful book on Talleyrand), was really... | A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 Best Price: $7.90 I was a History major in college. Though fascinated by the subject matter, I kept thinking that... | 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... |
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The Fall of the House of Habsburg Best Price: $1.24 One of Crankshaw's best, this forthrightly conservative and sympathetic book is premised on the... | 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. | Hungary and the Fall of Eastern Europe 1000-1568 (Men-at-Arms) Best Price: $10.52 A useful book with fine plates. As is often the case with men-at-arms titles, it does not have... | The Siege of Budapest: One Hundred Days in World War II Best Price: $12.17 The author has done an outstanding job of writing about the little known siege of Budapest... | The World of the Trapp Family Best Price: $23.60 This is one book I will keep in my private library. Very good book with all the pictures. My... |
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Wittgenstein's Vienna Best Price: $6.04 This is a dazzlingly dense intellectual history of a time when there was an explosion of new... | A Short Course in the Secret War, 4th Edition Best Price: $10.72 This book is informative and the author is obviously intelligent. The reading is hard to follow,... | The Austro-Hungarian Forces in World War I (1): 1914-16 (Men-at-Arms) Best Price: $7.55 This Men at Arms series has been a huge help with my short story writing - mostly because I'm a... | The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866 Best Price: $22.49 Sadly, there is a definite paucity of the published sources that deals with the Austro-Prussian... | The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero Best Price: $2.96 This book must be ranked as the best biography on Houdini. It is so well written that I... |
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Wallenberg: Missing Hero Best Price: $7.71 This Ballantine paperback printing is full of printer's errors, an insult to the author's fine... | The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World Best Price: $6.32 The Great Escape by Kati Marton. The book is about the lives of amazing Jewish Hungarians who... | MY BRAIN IS OPEN: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos Best Price: $7.71 Shurik, a friend of mine I used to share student dorm with, was a mathematician. Algebraist, to... | The Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815 (New Approaches to European History) Best Price: $18.64 This is one of the best books on the subject period available. Histories of Austria prior to... | The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century Best Price: $16.97 "The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century", by... |
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On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science Best Price: $16.14 This book consists of a number of fascinating photos drawn from the world of science. The... | Scum of the Earth Best Price: $26.48 ONE of the greatest books to come out of the second world war now carries a tragic irony. The... | The Habsburg Monarchy, 1809-1918 : A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary Best Price: $14.87 You don't want to miss Lagavulin, but you don't want it to be all you drink, either.
Edward... | The Will to Survive: A History of Hungary A history of Hungary from 1000 to the present day by the former British Ambassador to Hungary. | One Must Also Be Hungarian Best Price: $12.38 Good as family and Jewish history but its hard to read through the author's blatant bitterness... |
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The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust) Best Price: $19.95 After read this book i must say ? I am proud to be a citizen from El Salvador ? ?why? I didn't... | Holocaust City: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto Best Price: $19.65 This is an important work of Holocaust scholarship that explores the role of the local... | Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt (Cold War International History Project) Best Price: $12.95 This is the first book I've read on the Hungarian Revolt, but I found it well doicumented,... | To See You Again: A True Story of Love in A Time of War: A True Story of Love in a Time of War Best Price: $10.00 An avid reader of historical fiction and non-fiction, especially pertaining to the Holocaust, I... | Memoir of Hungary, 1944-1948 Best Price: $16.84 Some parts of this autobiographical work are delightful reading for anyone with an interest in... |
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At the Fire's Center: A STORY OF LOVE AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVAL Best Price: $39.71 The story of these four people, struggling to survive in the face of tremendous danger reminds... | The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler Best Price: $3.32 The author uses a lot of words to describe something that could be said in much fewer words. He... | My Mother's Eyes: Holocaust Memories of a Young Girl Best Price: $7.95 This is a beautiful book where holocaust experiences are written in a simple and profound... | The Austrian Army 1740-80 (2): Infantry (Men-at-Arms) Best Price: $125.08 In this book you will find many pictures of the infantry's uniforms. This helped me because I am... | Schubert's Vienna (Aston Magna Academy Book) Best Price: $8.70 I picked-up this book by accident as I had never heard of the Aston Magna Academy. I certainly... |
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The Hungarian Revolution 1956 (Elite) Best Price: $5.05 Osprey's The Hungarian Revolution 1956, number 148 in the Elite series, must have been a... | Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia Best Price: $7.49 This book is worth checking out from the library, but I wouldn't buy it.
The book is well... | The Politics of Genocide : The Holocaust in Hungary Best Price: $44.94 This book has proven extraordinarily useful in documenting the experiences of Hungarian... | The Austrians: A Thousand-Year Odyssey Best Price: $12.96 The title of this book is misleading. This is because Mr. Brooke-Shepherd devotes most of his... | The Wines of Hungary (Classic Wine Library) Best Price: $10.87 This is a stellar book on the most difficult of the major wine producing countries to study (up... |
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Once And Future Budapest Best Price: $31.00 Tracing the complex process by which Budapest became a Hungarian city, Robert Nemes offers an... | Isonzo: The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Great War Best Price: $62.96 This is the first english history of the Great War on the italian front, for this reason alone... | Fiorello's Sister: Gemma La Guardia Gluck's Story (Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust) Best Price: $10.10 Very interesting...did not know she was a political prisoner who was
put in a concentration... | Austro Hungarian Aces of World War I (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 46) Best Price: $12.45 An interesting addition to Osprey's Aircraft of the Aces series, this volume presents yet... | The Heavenly Horses Virginia & Tex Johnson's account of the two Hungarian Countesses, Margit Sigray-Bessenyey,... |