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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 Habsburgs

    To Rule the World

    by Martyn Rady ...
    The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries -- from their rise to power to their eventual downfall.In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built -- and then lost -- over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs gained control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in just a few ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Enemy at the Gate

    Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe

    In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled with guns as the besieging Ottoman host launched bombs, fired cannons, and showered the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Fall of the Ottomans

    The Great War in the Middle East

    by Eugene Rogan ...
    The thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle EastBy 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, ... Read more

    $14.99 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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  • Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe

    by Simon Winder ...
    A charmingly personal history of Hapsburg Europe, as lively as it is informative, by the author of GermaniaFor centuries much of Europe and the Holy Roman Empire was in the royal hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off—through luck, guile and sheer mulishness—any number of rivals, until ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Pity of War

    Explaining World War I

    From a bestselling historian, a daringly revisionist history of World War IThe Pity of War makes a simple and provocative argument: the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England's fault. According to Niall Ferguson, England entered into war based on naive assumptions of German aims, thereby transforming a Continental conflict into a world war, which it then badly mishandled, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • In the Shadow of the Empress

    The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters

    The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa—one of the most renowned women rulers in history—and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.Out of the thrilling and tempestuous eighteenth century comes the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, a sovereign of uncommon strength and vision, the only woman ever to inherit and rule ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Assassination of the Archduke

    Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World

    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 IIn the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished in the chaos of World War I. One event precipitated the conflict, and at its hear was a tragic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

    Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    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 of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline ... Read more

    $13.99 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

  • 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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  • Austria-Hungary and the Habsburgs

    THERE is, in reality, no collective title for the agglomeration of territories called Austria-Hungary. The House of Habsburg is merely the connecting link between many distinct parts, not only by virtue of conquest or annexation, but also by inheritance and by the right of long possession. It has to be clearly understood that the fact of mutual dislikes among the various peoples of Austria-Hungary ... Read more

    $0.99 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 White War

    Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919

    by Mark Thompson ...
    In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste and in the snows of the Dolomites. To maintain discipline, General Luigi Cadorna restored the Roman practice of decimation, executing random members of units that retreated or rebelled.With elegance and pathos, historian Mark Thompson ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • After the Reich

    The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation

    The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World WarWhen the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and German-speakers died in the course of brutal deportations from Eastern Europe. By the end of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • 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

  • Twilight of Empire

    The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs

    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 mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera as she slept, sat with the corpse for hours and, when dawn broke ... Read more

    $11.99 USD