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Hungarians : a Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat (03 Edition) by Paul Lendvai Publisher Comments The Hungarians is the most comprehensive, clear-sighted, and absorbing history ever of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as child-devouring cannibals and bloodthirsty Huns. But it wasn't long before the... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Budapest 1900 by John Lukacs Publisher Comments "Lukacs's book is a lyrical, sometimes dazzling, never merely nostalgic evocation of a glorious period in the city's history. . . . (His) true sympathy lies . . . not with the famous expatriates, but with the writers and intellectuals who lived and died... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 by Frederic Morton Publisher Comments Thunder at Twilight is a landmark of 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... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526-1850 by Paula Sutter Fichtner Publisher Comments Many negative stereotypes of Muslims can be traced to the clashes between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. Paula Sutter Fichtner explores here the particular dynamics between the Ottoman and Austrian Habsburg empires and... (read more) Your price: $45.75 New - Hardcover
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Men-At-Arms #195: Hungary and the Fall of Eastern Europe, 1000-1568 by David Nicolle Publisher Comments Although not widely studied in the West, the medieval history of south-eastern Europe is both fascinating and complex. The Kingdom of Hungary was a vast realm, at least the size of France, that endured throughout the Middle Ages whilst the Byzantine... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - 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 height of the Viennese Carnival, the Handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and them himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Hungary (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Miklos Molnar Publisher Comments This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the 1988 elections. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people who became a... (read more) Your price: $28.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Bridge at Andau by James A Michener Publisher Comments At four o'clock in the morning on a Sunday in November 1956, the city of Budapest was awakened by the shattering sound of Russian tanks tearing the city apart. The Hungarian revolution -- five brief, glorious days of freedom that had yielded a glimpse at... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Quest for Compromise by Howard Louthan Publisher Comments An account of religious moderation at the Habsburg court in late sixteenth-century Vienna.... (read more) List Price $53.50 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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History in My Life: A Memoir of Three Eras by Ivan T. Berend Publisher Comments Before he became a professor at UCLA, Ivan Berend had survived five regime changes and two revolutions in Hungary, made a full academic career and was one of the masterminds of regime change in his home country. His memoir offers an interesting case... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Hardcover
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The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross & Crescent by John Stoye Publisher Comments "In his splendid study The Siege of Vienna, the Oxford historian John Stoye provides a detailed account of the intricate machinations between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans. Mr. Stoye's description of the siege itself is masterly. He seems to know every... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Windowgiraffe (Anthem Art and Culture) by Peter Zilahy Publisher Comments 'Péter Zilahy is just the vagabond polymath the New Europe needs. Don't wait. Climb aboard the rollercoaster today. Read The Last Window–Giraffe as an elaborate, erudite, gut-wrenching belly-laugh at everything that went wrong and all the... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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Memoirs of the Court Aristocracy and Diplomacy of Austria Part Two by E. Vehse Synopsis 1865. Part Two of Two. Historical sketches of the leaders of Austria. Contents of the Second Volume: Leopold I (continued); Charles VI; Maria Theresa; Joseph II; Leopold II; and Francis II. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger... (read more) Your price: $42.95 New - Trade Paper
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The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents (National Security Archive Cold War Readers) by Csaba Bekes Publisher Comments If there had been all-news television channels in 1956, viewers around the world would have been glued to their sets between October 23 and November 4. This book tells the story of the Hungarian Revolution in 120 original documents, ranging from the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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New Perspectives on Austrians and World War II by Gunter (edt) Bischof Publisher Comments For more than a generation after World War II, offi cial government doctrine and many Austrians insisted they had been victims of Nazi aggression in 1938 and, therefore, bore no responsibility for German war crimes. During the past twenty years this myth... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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Memoirs of the Court Aristocracy and Diplomacy of Austria Part One by E. Vehse Synopsis 1865. Part One of Two. Historical sketches of the leaders of Austria. Contents of the First Volume: Maximillian I; Charles V; Ferdinand I; Maximillian II; Rodolph II; Matthias; Ferdinand II; Ferdinand III; and Leopold I. See other titles by this author... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 by Istvan Deak Publisher Comments In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism. Still, it preserved domestic peace and provided the conditions for social, economic, and cultural progress in a vast... (read more) Your price: $92.50 New - Hardcover
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Men-At-Arms #323: Austrian Army 1836-66 (1) Infantry by Darko Pavlovic Publisher Comments In the mid-19th century, Austria comprised a heterogeneous, multi-ethnic empire consisting of the Austrian or 'German' area; the Hungarian area; the Military Border; and the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. The diverse nature of the empire made it difficult... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy by Paul Lendvai Publisher Comments On October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. Only now, fifty years after those harrowing events, can the full story be told... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913: Clues to the Future by J. Sydney Jones Publisher Comments The revelatory look at Hitler's formative years in Vienna provides startling insights into the future Furher.... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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