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The Bloody Countess: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory
by Valentine Penrose and Alexander Trocchi  Publisher Comments New edition of this classic account of the atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory....
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The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
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...
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Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Vintage)
by Victor Sebestyen Publisher Comments "Twelve Days "is a riveting day-by-day account of the defining moment of the Cold War--the inspiring but brutally crushed Hungarian Uprising. Victor Sebestyen, a journalist whose own family fled Hungary, gives us a totally fresh account, incorporating...
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Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
by Michael Korda Publisher Comments The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was not just an extraordinary and dramatic event-; perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War-; but, as we can now see fifty years later, a major turning point in history. Here is an eyewitness account, in the...
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Hungary in the Cold War 1945-1956
by Laszlo Borhi Publisher Comments Based on new archival evidence, examines Soviet Empire building in Hungary and the American response to it. Analyzes why the US failed even in its minimal aims concerning the states of Eastern Europe. Both powers pursued power politics: the Soviets in a...
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Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
by Michael Korda Publisher Comments The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended unsuccessfully, the spontaneous uprising of Hungarians against their country's Communist party and the...
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A Guest in My Own Country: A Hungarian Life
by George Konrad Publisher Comments A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals. When George Konrád was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day...
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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...
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Masquerade: Dancing Around Death in Nazi Occupied Hungary
by Tivadar Soros Publisher Comments A powerful, moving, and very personal memoir of survival under the Nazi regime, by the father of billionaire financier George Soros....
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Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
by Victor Sebestyen Publisher Comments In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of one of the Cold War's defining events, a vivid, authoritative account describes the 1956 efforts of the Hungarian people to overthrow their Soviet rulers, the lack of support from the Western nations for the revolt,...
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Tibor Eckhard in His Own Words: An Autobiography
by Katalin Kadar Lynn Publisher Comments Tibor Eckhardt was a powerful and influential figure in the political life of Hungary from the end of World War I until 1941 when he emigrated to the United States. Eckhardt's carer included personal contact with some of the most controversial and...
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Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook (Texts & Contexts)
by Susan R Suleiman Publisher Comments Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth—where she speaks the language like a native but with an accent...
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Budapest Exit
by Csaba Teglas Publisher Comments Faced with fascism, communism, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Csaba Teglas responded with ingenuity and hope. In Budapest Exit, he tells the story of his twenty-year quest for freedom. Teglas rummaged the scrap heap of World War II for anything he...
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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...
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Collective Farms Which Work
by Nigel Swain Publisher Comments This is the first book in English to analyse Hungarian collectivisation from a sociological perspective....
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The Garden and the Workshop: Essays on the Cultural History of Vienna and Budapest
by Peter Hanak Synopsis A century ago, Vienna, famed for its spacious parks and gardens, was called a "garden" of esoteric culture. But Budapest was a city surrounded by factories, so its offices and cafes were referred to as "workshops". Historian Peter Hanak surveys the urban...
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Hungary: An Economy in Transition
by Istvan P Szekely Publisher Comments Study of the economic transformation of Hungary, presenting local ideas and perceptions and international analysis....
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Eastern European Studies #13: A Testament of Revolution
by Bela Liptak Publisher Comments Terse, staccato, like a dispatch from the front, Bela Liptak's A Testament of Revolution gives readers a vivid, firsthand look at the brief, doomed struggle of Hungarian freedom fighters against Russian oppressors. Written in 1956 in an Austrian refugee...
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Budapest: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)
by Bob Dent Publisher Comments The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellert Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series of imposing bridges, with...
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The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism
by Michael Burawoy Publisher Comments Communism, once heralded as the "radiant future" of all humanity, has now become part of Eastern Europe's past. What does the record say about the legacy of communism as an organizational system? Michael Burawoy and Janos Lukacs consider this question...
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