Austria category: 467 books

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...

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...

The House of Wittgenstein is the grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family whose members included a famous philosopher and the world's greatest one-handed classical pianist. The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history,...

An “extraordinary memoir [that] lends a personal and unique eye to explaining Hitler’s character” (Midwest Book Review). August Kubizek met Adolf Hitler in 1904 while they competed for standing room at the opera. Kubizek describes a reticent young man, painfully shy, yet capable of bursting...

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 –...

Princess Diana survived the 12.23 a.m. crash in Paris - witness and photographic evidence clearly showed she was alive, conscious and talking in the back of the Mercedes. Yet just after 4 a.m. Diana was pronounced dead. What occurred in the intervening 3½ hours that brought on her premature death?...

Isabel Amalia Eugenia Duquesa en Baviera. Dotada de una gran belleza física, Isabel se caracterizó por ser una persona rebelde, culta y demasiado avanzada para su tiempo. Adoraba la equitación, llegando a participar en muchos torneos. Sentía un gran aprecio por los animales; amaba a sus perros,...

Depuis sa mort en 1898 sous le couteau d'un anarchiste, Elisabeth d'Autriche est devenue un mythe. Mariée à 16 ans au futur empereur François-Joseph, Elisabeth de Wittelsbach est belle, intelligente, mais devient très vite dépressive et solitaire car elle déteste...

Was wir bisher über Franz Ferdinand und die Tragödie von Sarajevo gelesen haben, ist meist gängiges Geschichtswissen. Ganz anders sieht es aber aus, wenn heute ein Mitglied der Familie zu Wort kommen kann: Anita Hohenberg, die Urenkelin des Thronfolgers, Mutter von vier Kindern, Schlossherrin von...

Schillernde, brillante Persönlichkeiten sind es, mit denen Maria Theresia sich umgab: • Franz Stephan von Lothringen, ihr vielseitig interessierter, lebenslustiger, nicht immer treuer Ehemann. • Joseph II., ihr rebellischer Sohn, mit dem sie zahlreiche Sträuße ausfocht. • Emanuel Silva-Tarouca,...

"A Monarchia egyik alföldi városkájában járunk, az 1910-es években. Dávid Veronika, az emancipált, lassan vénlánynak számító eladókisasszony saját romantikus regényét írja...

They call me Cheetah because of my speed. Yesterday I was a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl with dreams of making the Olympics one day. Today I killed a man. I wasn’t born a killer. I had a loving mother and father. It all started in front of the Radio Build

The Nazis' Last Victims articulates and historically scrutinizes both the uniqueness and the universality of the Holocaust in Hungary, a topic often minimized in general works on the Holocaust. The result of the 1994 conference at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the fiftieth anniversary...

The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present. Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, himself a native of Hungary, tells in this pioneering...