Austria Hungary category: 467 books
Twilight of Empire
The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his seventeen-year-old...
History of World War I: The Balkans, Italy & Africa 1914–1918
From Sarajevo to the Piave and Lake Tanganyika
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the...
The Assassination of the Archduke
Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I
In the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all...
History of World War I: The Eastern Front 1914–1920
From Tannenberg to the Russo-Polish War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and campaigns of the 'Great War'. From the Falkland Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the World War I series provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns...
The Ideological Cold War
The Politics of Neutrality in Austria and Finland
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book opens new perspectives into the Cold War ideological confrontations. Using Austria and Finland as an example, it shows how the Cold War battles for the hearts and minds of the people also influenced policies in countries that wished to stay outside the conflict.
Following the model...
Sissi’s World
The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural...
Sacrifice and Rebirth
The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first of its kind to analyze how the Great War was interpreted, commemorated, or forgotten across all the ex-Habsburg...
Dreams of a Great Small Nation
The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, and Remade the Map of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale.” -Winston S. Churchill
In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure...
by Ryan K. Noppen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
At the outbreak of World War I Austria-Hungary had four modern light cruisers and twenty modern destroyers at their disposal, constructed in the early 20th century to defend their growing overseas interests. It was these fast light vessels, not the fleet's prized battleships, which saw most action...
Slavs in Post-Nazi Austria
Carinthian Slovenes and the Politics of Assimilation, 1945-1960
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Robert Knight's book examines how the 60,000 strong Slovene community in the Austrian borderland province of Carinthia continued to suffer in the wake of Nazism's fall. It explores how and why Nazi values continued to be influential in a post-Nazi era in postwar Central Europe and provides valuable...
WechselWirkungen
Austria-Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Western Balkans, 18781918
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
What can post/colonial studies and their approaches contribute to our understanding of the Austro-Hungarian (k.u.k.) occupation and administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1878 to 1914?
This anthology presents some possible answers to this research question which goes back to a workshop held at...
Memory Book
One Woman's Self-Discovery in the Mist of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Found in an antique store while the author was on a short vacation to Budapest, the small leather book—filled with watercolors, drawings, and messages—turned out to be a memory book. At the turn of the twentieth century, many Eastern European girls kept memory books as keepsake albums, in which...
Blood on the Snow
The Carpathian Winter War of 1915
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Norman B. Tomlinson Book Prize, Honorable Mention
The Carpathian campaign of 1915, described by some as the "Stalingrad of the First World War," engaged the million-man armies of Austria-Hungary and Russia in fierce winter combat that drove them to the brink of annihilation. Habsburg...
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...