3,600円 Auf den Spuren des alten Kaiserreichs Brioni, Abbazia, Fiume – das sind die klingenden Namen der Kur- und Badeorte an der einstigen k. u k. Riviera. Wer heute durch Brijuni, Opatija oder Rijeka schlendert, trifft noch immer auf den Charme vergangener Zeiten. Helmut Luther begibt sich auf nostalgi...

1,657円 Dieses Buch ist die Erinnerung einer Tochter an die Familie ihrer Mutter, und die Fortsetzung des bahnbrechenden Buches *Die Kinder des Holocaust*. Dank ihrer journalistischen Ausbildung zeigt Helen Epstein, wie durch dokumentarische Recherche Familiengeschichte zutage befördert und die historisc...

13,099円 "This is an original work, meticulously researched, rich in detail, and written in a clear and – here and there – refreshingly pungent style. (...) I regard it as a first-rate contribution to the diplomatic methods of the 100 years before the First World War." - G.R. Berridge, Emeritus Professor ...

4,454円 History comes alive in these pages as Peter Stephaich traces his origins from 1608 when King Rudolph II of Hungary conferred noble status on his family. He describes in fascinating detail his upbringing in a world which has long since ceased to exist. As a member of the elite Hussar Cavalry, Step...

1,691円 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-y...

879円 Extrait : Tesis, 21 novembre 1917 La Madonna della Salute! con qual fervore dobbiamo pregarla ora che siamo in mezzo ad ogni sorta di pericoli ed oppressi da mille angustie! Penso con emozione al magnifico tempio che la riconoscenza dei Veneziani offerse alla nostra benedetta Vergine: oggi certo ...

4,000円 1918: DAS ENDE EINER ÜBER 600 JAHRE ANDAUERNDEN DYNASTIE November 1918: Die Habsburgermonarchie liegt in Trümmern. Die Armee löst sich auf, und Kaiser Karl verlässt Schloss Schönbrunn durch die Hintertür. War dieses Ende wirklich unausweichlich, gar verspätet? Denn mit dem Tod von Kaiser Franz Jo...

1,405円 S-a scris mult despre război, despre războaie în general, dar nu cred că a scris nimeni până acum o carte care să cuprindă poveștile din război trăite de copii, percepute de ei prin prisma înțelegerii lor. Copiii au un alt mod de a înțelege viața din jurul lor, mult mai curat, mult mai simplu. De...

4,800円 Manfred Matzka kennt das Bundeskanzleramt wie niemand sonst: Nach einer mehr als 30-jährigen Berufslaufbahn dort kann er über die politischen Schicksalstage und prägenden Persönlichkeiten, die Architekturgeschichte und Verwaltungsentwicklung und über das Alltagsleben des berühmten Hauses mit der ...

5,073円 This book describes the vibrant activity of survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after the Second World War. In the first postwar decade, these initiatives collected thousands of Nazi documents along with testimonies, memoirs, diaries...

10,280円 This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an original examination of dramatic gestures in expressionist artworks. It centers on the following questi...

711円 In this classic work on music biography, Sacheverell Sitwell narrates Franz Liszt’s rapid ascent to European fame - and the effect that this incredible early success as a wonderfully gifted pianist had on his later life - with insight, sympathy and humanity, One of the very first studies of Liszt...