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  • The Holocaust in Hungary

    Evolution of a Genocide

    Series series Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context
    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 largest group of victims who perished in that camp. The complex interplay between German and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Budapest 1900

    A Historical Portrait of a City & Its Culture

    by John Lukacs ...
    A distinguished historian and Budapest native offers a rich and eloquent portrait of one of the great European cities at the height of its powers.Budapest, like Paris and Vienna, experienced a remarkable exfoliation at the end of the nineteenth century. In terms of population growth, material expansion, and cultural exuberance, it was among the foremost metropolitan centers of the world, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood on the Snow

    The Carpathian Winter War of 1915

    Series series Modern War Studies
    Norman B. Tomlinson Book Prize, Honorable MentionThe 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 forces fought to rescue 130,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers trapped by Russian troops in Fortress Przemysl, but the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The World of Yesterday

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Benjamin W. Huebsch and Helmut Ripperger, introduction by Harry Zohn, a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life, bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter; 156,000 words and 34 illustrations)This Plunkett Lake Press eBook is produced by arrangement with Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Summer of Mass Murder

    1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust

    by George Eisen ...
    Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by bullets.The summer of 1941 ushered in a chain of events that had no precedent in the ... Read more

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  • Hitler and the Habsburgs

    The Führer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals

    by James Longo ...
    “A detailed and moving picture of how the Habsburgs suffered under the Nazi regime…scrupulously sourced, well-written, and accessible.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)It was during five youthful years in Vienna that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsburg Imperial family became the catalyst for his vendetta against a vanished empire, a dead archduke, and his royal orphans. That hatred drove ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emperor

    A New Life of Charles V

    This “elegant and engaging” biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: “a masterpiece” (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times).The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But capturing the nature of this elusive man has ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Irma's Passport

    One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage

    In this gripping family tale, Catherine Ehrlich explores her Austrian grandparents’ influential lives at the crossroads of German and Jewish national movements. Weaving her grandmother Irma’s spellbinding memoirs into her narrative, she profiles a charismatic woman who confronts history with courage and rebuilds lives—for herself and Europe’s dispossessed.Starting out in Bohemia’s picturesque ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Freedom Flight

    A True Account of the Cold War's Greatest Escape

    by Frank Iszak ...
    A riveting account of a daring escape from Communist Hungary in a twin-engine plane: “I couldn’t put it down” —San Diego Union-Tribune.On the rainy afternoon of Friday, July 13, 1956, seven desperate young people boarded a twin engine DC-3 in the People’s Republic of Hungary, with the intention of diverting it to West Germany. They had no weapons, no map, and no idea whether the plane carried ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life in the Georgian Court

    This lively history of Europe’s royal families through the 18th and early 19th centuries reveals the decadence and danger of court life.As the glittering Hanoverian court gives birth to the British Georgian era, a golden age of royalty dawns in Europe. Houses rise and fall, births, marriages and scandals change the course of history. Meanwhile, in France, Revolution stalks the land. Life in the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life of Josef Šálek

    A Biographical History

    by Josef Machac ...
    The life story of Josef Šálek, as remembered by his grandson. Born in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, in 1892, Šálek's lifetime spanned both World Wars and the transformation of what is now the Czech Republic. What may have been simple small-town life became extraordinary when set against the canvas of dramatic world events. With exceptional historical detail interwoven with family ... Read more

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  • Freemasonry through the Funnel: The Widow's Sons of Sombor 1897-2017

    by Karlo Hameder ...
    This book is aimed at all those who would like to have more details about the world of Freemasonry, both young Freemasons and non-Masons. Our intention is to present and demystify and uncover Freemasonry and Freemasons.Many books have been written both on the good and bad sides of Freemasonry, its beneficial effects on an individual’s spiritual development as well as its, allegedly, satanic impact ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paris-London Connection: The Assassination of Princess Diana

    by John Morgan ...
    Paris-London Connection is the most shocking yet factual book written on the 1997 Paris crash that took the lives of Princess Diana and her lover, Dodi Fayed. This fast-moving but authoritative narrative covers the events leading up to and following the tragedy. The book is a short, quick read – 200 pages – but is a bombshell because it closely follows the evidence and forensic analysis included ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hungary in World War II

    Caught in the Cauldron

    A historian examines why Hungary allied with the Nazis, and the devastating consequences for the country.The full story of Hungary’s participation in World War II is part of a fascinating tale of rise and fall, of hopes dashed and dreams in tatters. Using previously untapped sources and interviews she conducted for this book, Deborah S. Cornelius provides a clear account of Hungary’s attempt to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apple of Discord

    The "Hungarian Factor" in Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867-1881

    by Ian D. Armour ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    When seeking the origins of World War I, the chain of events in the late nineteenth century that led to the breakdown of relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and facilitated the rise of an aggressive Serbian nationalism needs to be understood. This book focuses on the hitherto unexplored Hungarian influence on the Habsburg Monarchy's policy toward Serbia after the 1867 Ausgleich, and it ... Read more

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  • Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign

    The Italian Front, 1915–1918

    This illustrated WWI history sheds light on a major campaign fought along the significant yet often neglected Italian Front.From 1915 to 1917 the armies of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were locked in a series of battles along the River Isonzo, a sixty-mile front from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea. The campaigns were fought in unforgiving terrain, with casualty counts that exceeded those of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Schoenberg: Why He Matters

    by Harvey Sachs ...
    **A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2023A New Yorker Best Book of the Year“[A]n immensely valuable source for anyone desiring an accessible overview of this endlessly controversial and chronically misunderstood giant of 20th-century music.” —John Adams, New York Times Book Review, cover reviewAn astonishingly lyrical biography that rescues Schoenberg from notoriety, restoring him to his rightful ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Soldier of Rome: March to Oblivion

    The Artorian Dynasty, #3

    by James Mace ...
    Series Book 3 - The Artorian Dynasty
    In 89 A.D., following a failed insurrection by the governor of Upper Germania, the disgraced Legio XXI, Rapax, is dispatched to Pannonia, on the River Danube. The legion is purged of its senior officers; Emperor Domitian appoints the venerable Lucius Flavius Silva as the new commanding legate. Silva was a revered general. During his previous command, twenty years prior, he famously captured the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Napoleon's Defeat of the Habsburgs

    by John H. Gill ...
    Series series 1809: Thunder on the Danube
    This history of the 1809 Franco-Austrian War presents an in-depth chronicle Napoleon’s last great victory.On April 10th, 1809, while Napoleon was occupied in Western Europe with the Peninsular War, the Austrian Empire launched a surprise attack that sparked the War of the Fifth Coalition. Though France would ultimately win the conflict, it would be Napoleon’s last victorious war. Even then, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Escape

    Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

    by Kati Marton ...
    The “intensely gripping story” of John von Neumann, Leo Szilard, Arthur Koestler, and six other world-renowned Hungarian Jews who fled the Nazis (The Washington Post Book World).In this book, New York Times–bestselling author Kati Marton tells the stunning tale of nine men who grew up in Budapest’s brief Golden Age, then, driven from Hungary by anti-Semitism, fled to the West, especially to the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • I Belong to Vienna

    A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return

    Translated by Alta L. Price ...
    A memoir of family history, personal identity, and WWII Vienna—a “well-researched, intimate, evocative look at some of the 20th century’s foulest days” (Kirkus).In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg’s great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna. But this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise and Fall of Prussia

    The Rise and Fall of Prussia by Sebastian Haffner (translated from the German by Ewald Osers; 60,000 words)Sebastian Haffner regarded himself as “a Prussian with a British passport.” In this overview of Prussia’s 170-year history as an independent state, he depicts Prussia’s evolution from a sensational 18th century success story – “a state based on law, one of the first in Europe” – to its ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Maria Theresa

    When Edward Crankshaw's Maria Theresa was published in 1969, it was the first full length study of Maria Theresa to be written in English for sixty years.Called to the throne in 1740, at the age of twenty-three, Maria Theresa was wholly unprepared for the events that were to confront her, and trusting in the honour of her fellow monarchs, the young queen found herself with a virtually nonexistent ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Eastern Front 1914–1920

    From Tannenberg to the Russo-Polish War

    Series series The History of WWI
    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 that raged on land, at sea and in the air.In 1914, the autocratic Russian Empire was allied to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD