Austria Hungary category: 467 books
SISSI La Emperatriz Isabel de Wittelsbach
Historia de una Vida
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 6, 2017
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,...
Elisabeth Impératrice d'Autriche
L'hérédité sinistre des Wittelsbach
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2015
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...
Er war mein Urgroßvater
Anita Hohenberg über Thronfolger Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand
Language: German
Release Date: November 22, 2013
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...
Maria Theresias Männer
Ihre Lieben, ihre Ratgeber und die Stützen ihres Throns
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2015
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,...
by Baráth Katalin
Language: Hungarian
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: Hungarian
Release Date: November 24, 2015
"A Monarchia egyik alföldi városkájában járunk, az 1910-es években. Dávid Veronika, az emancipált, lassan vénlánynak számító eladókisasszony saját romantikus regényét írja...
by Hargitai Péter
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
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
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...
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...