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The Austrians: A Thousand-Year Odyssey by Gor Brooke Shepherd Publisher Comments This is a masterful survey of Austria's controversial place at the heart of European history. From the Reformation through the Napoleonic and Cold Wars to European Union, a superb history of Austria's central role in uniting Western civilization is... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E Schorske Publisher Comments A landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vienna: A Cultural History by Nicholas Parsons Publisher Comments From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Hapsburgs, 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... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900 by Tim Bonyhady Publisher Comments Vienna and its Secessionist movement at the turn of the last century is the focus of this extraordinary social portrait told through an eminent Viennese family, headed by Hermine and Moriz Gallia, who were among the great patrons of early-twentieth... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Habsburgs by Andrew Wheatcroft Publisher Comments "Splendidly rich...required reading for anyone who hopes to understand the real Europe."—Daily Telegraph.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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House of Wittgenstein (10 Edition) by Alexander Waugh Publisher Comments The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist. The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest, most talented, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna Under Hitler by Thomas Weyr Publisher Comments When 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 intellectual... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Habsburg Monarchy 1809 1918 by A J P Taylor Synopsis A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a hetergeneous population.... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler by Thomas Weyr Publisher Comments When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in theAnschlussof 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 intellectual... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $20.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Congress of Vienna: A Study in Allied Unity: 1812-1822 by Harold Nicolson Synopsis In 1812, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a congress convened in Vienna in which the fate of Europe was to be determined for the next hundred years. Attending were the great statesmen of the time -- the wily French foreign minister, Talleyrand; his... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeship by Brigitte Hamann Publisher Comments Already a critically acclaimed bestseller in Germany and in Austria, Hitler's Vienna explores the critical, formative years which Hitler spent in Vienna, painting a fascinating portrait of the development of his ideas and career against the social... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna by Peter Singer Publisher Comments "What binds us pushes time away," wrote David Oppenheim to his future wife, Amalie Pollak, on March 24, 1905. Oppenheim, classical scholar, collaborator and then critic of Sigmund Freud, and friend and supporter of Alfred Adler, lived through the heights... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913: Clues to the Future by J Sydney Jones Publisher Comments The Hitler who arrived in Vienna in 1907 was a young aspiring artist; the man who left six years later was a hate-filled dictator in the making, destined to plunge the world into war. Jones' look at Hitler's formative years provides a startling and... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Modern Austria: Empire and Republic, 1815-1986 by Barbara Jelavich Publisher Comments Beginning with the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and extending to the elections in November of 1986, this history of modern Austria has been written for the general reader and the student wishing an overview of the country's recent history. The first part... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp Publisher Comments With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Concise History of Austria (07 Edition) by Steven Beller Publisher Comments Steven Beller traces the remarkable career of Austria from German borderland to successful Alpine republic.... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Garden & the Workshop Essays on the Cu by Peter Hanak Publisher Comments A century ago, Vienna and Budapest were the capital cities of the western and eastern halves of the increasingly unstable Austro-Hungarian empire and scenes of intense cultural activity. Vienna was home to such figures as Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Siege of Vienna by John Stoye Synopsis The Siege of Vienna in 1683 was one of the turning points in European history. This story if peopled with characters from Kara Mustafa, the ruthless Grand Vizier, and Count Starhemberg, commander of the garrison, to Emperor Leopold and John Sobieski.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 by Frederic Morton Publisher Comments On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Vienna: A Cultural History by Nicholas Parsons Publisher Comments Nicholas Parsons is the author of Blue Guides to Vienna and Austria, and 'Worth the Detour': A History of the Guidebook.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.68 Google eBooks - Electronic
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