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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Hungary
Dorling Kindersley 2010; US$ 25.00Your holiday starts the moment you open the guide ... "The best guide available. Packed to the brim with photos and essential information." Amazon Reader review. Whether you wish for tranquillity in one of the country's great nature reserves or to pamper yourself in one of the top-class thermal spa resorts, this latest volume in the award-winning... more...
Top 10 Budapest
Dorling Kindersley 2012; US$ 14.00Drawing on the same standards of accuracy as the acclaimed DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, DK Top 10 Budapest uses exciting colorful photography and excellent cartography to provide a reliable and useful travel. Dozens of Top 10 lists provide vital information on each destination, as well as insider tips, from avoiding the crowds to finding... more...
Frommer's Budapest and the Best of Hungary
Wiley 2010; US$ 18.99Budapest, awakened in 1989 after its long slumber behind the Iron Curtain, is now one of Europe's hottest destinations. It stands proudly at the center of Eastern Europe's cultural rebirth, and best of all, it still ranks as one of the continent's best bargains. Frommer's Budapest & the Best of Hungary is meticulously updated... more...
Frommer's Budapest Day By Day
Wiley 2011; US$ 13.99Frommer's Budapest Day by Day gives you the perfect pocket guide book to experience and enjoy this culturally and historically rich city in the simplest, smartest and most time-efficient way, letting you decide where to go and what to see according to your timeframe. With extensive insider knowledge and advice and honest reviews, this guide helps... more...
Britain and the Occupation of Austria,1943-45
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 111.00The relationship of policy to strategy is a central issue in international studies. Using the little-known but highly relevant example of British planning for the occupation in 1945, the book provides a case-study in the practicalities of 'liberating' enemy territory. It looks at the way in which policy was developed and then reconciled with those... more...
Uncrowned Emperor
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 140.00The Austro-Hungarian Empire dominated central Europe until 1918, when the last Habsburg Emperor, Karl, fled into exile. Karl's death in 1921 made his nine-year-old son Otto head of the Hapsburg family, a position he has now held for over eighty years. Born heir presumptive to an empire that stretched from the Tyrol to Transylvania, and from Poland... more...
Dollfuss
IHS Press 2003; US$ 12.95Introduced in this book is Englebert Dollfuss, the Austrian hero who plotted a course for Austria against Nazism, against Socialism, and against unbridled capitalism until his assassination by the Nazis in 1934. This is the story of the Austrian chancellor who attempted to act as a moral force to bring a divided, bankrupt, and bitter Europe to its... more...
Take Budapest
The History Press 2012; US$ 21.86October 1944: Soviet troops launched a powerful attack on Budapest from the south, the culmination of a series of military, political, diplomatic and underground moves undertaken by Hitler, Stalin and Churchill since the collapse of the Axis front in the Balkans two months earlier. However, what had been planned as a bold stroke to knock Hungary out... more...
Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 196.00At the height of the first Cold War in the early 1950s, the Western powers worried that occupied Austria might become 'Europe's Korea' and feared a Communist takeover. The Soviets exploited their occupation zone for maximum reparations. American economic aid guaranteed Austria's survival and economic reconstruction. Their military assistance turned... more...
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