Austria category: 467 books
The Holocaust in Hungary
Evolution of a Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The Holocaust in Hungary provides a comprehensive documentary account of one of the most brutal and effective killing campaigns in history. After Nazi Germany took control of Hungary late in World War II, Jews were rounded up with unprecedented speed and sent directly to Auschwitz. They would form...
The Politics of Genocide
The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2000
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, Condensed Edition is an abbreviated version of the classic work first published in 1981 and revised and expanded in 1994. It includes a new historical overview, and retains and sharpens its focus on the persecution of the Jews. Through a meticulous...
by Charles Fenyvesi
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
When The World Was Whole: Three Centuries of Memories by Charles Fenyvesi (76,000 words, 40 illustrations)
In this family memoir, Charles Fenyvesi brings back to life his ancestors who loved and improved the poor soil they tilled in northeastern Hungary, kept the countless rules of their Jewish...
Golden Harvest:Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust
Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become...
Mijn leven is van mij
roman over keizerin Elisabeth van Oostenrijk (Sisi)
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Elisabeth is keizerin tegen wil en dank. Terwijl de liefde voor haar pragmatische man bekoelt, groeit de druk op de dromerige Elisabeth om een troonopvolger te baren voor het Oostenrijk-Hongaarse rijk. Na de geboorte van kroonprins Rudolf besluit zij haar eigen weg te gaan. Ze blijft zoveel mogelijk...
The Trigger
Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
From the author of Blood River: “A splendid book, part memoir, part history,” about the teenager who killed Archduke Ferdinand and sparked WWI (Norman Stone, author of World War One).
Sarajevo, 1914. On a June morning, nineteen-year-old Gavrilo Princip drew a pistol from his pocket and fired...
The Hungarians
A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
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 Hungarians became steadfast...
Vienna
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
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, but the twentieth century saw it degraded to a...
A Nervous Splendor
Vienna, 1888–1889
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
National Book Award finalist: This journey through fin-de-siècle Vienna is “a remarkable and unusual slice of history” (Los Angeles Times).
On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed height of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf shot and killed his...
Fin-De-Siecle Vienna
Politics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A Pulitzer Prize Winner and 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 splendid exploration...
by Peter Stephan Jungk
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Franz Werfel: A Life in Prague, Vienna, and Hollywood by Peter Stephan Jungk (translated from the German by Anselm Hollo; 133,000 words and 40 illustrations)
Czech-born playwright, novelist and poet Franz Werfel (1890-1945) became internationally famous(and a special target of the Nazis) after...
Aniko
The Stranger Who Loved Me
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Aniko: The Stranger Who Loved me is a a literary biography that has won three awards, including the EPPIE for nonfiction in 2004.
It is the life story of a woman who achieved the impossible and survived the unsurvivable -- more than once. Her courage, imagination and ruthlessness saved her...
Take Budapest!
The Struggle for Hungary Autumn 1944
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Describes the failed attempt of the Red Army to capture Budapest and Vienna in late 1944, in order to forestall the Western Allies in Central Europe—with previously unpublished photographsOctober 1944: Soviet troops launched a powerful attack on Budapest from the south, the culmination of a series...
Politics in Color and Concrete
Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous—the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and...