In the Shadow of the Empress
1,592円 The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresaーone of the most renowned women rulers in historyー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 beaut...
Being Hungarian in Cleveland
1,408円 Cleveland, Ohio, has been the U.S. hub for all things related to Hungary and Hungarians since the nineteenth century. Today, Cleveland's Hungarian community remains vibrant and continues to value and preserve its heritage despite the ongoing impact of economic, social and cultural changes, demogr...
Bittersweet Freedom - What Would You Be W...
700円 Pages: 528 BITTERSWEET FREEDOM - A TRUE STORY AND MAGNIFICENTLY WRITTEN DRAMA of Human Suffering, Courage, Human Mortality, and Selfless Love and Sacrifice. Gripping, funny, sad, galvanizing. Difficult to put down. A lesson inspiring each of us to appreciate every moment of life, and to love one ...
More than Mere Spectacle
3,517円 Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. Many historians have considered rituals like these as irrelevant to understanding modern governance...
Tiltott kapcsolat
1,602円 „Lengyel, magyar, két jó barát” – tartja az ismert mondás, amelyet 1981-ben még a Kontroll Csoport is megénekelt. Mégis, mára szinte feledésbe merült, hogy a hetvenes évek második felétől kezdve e hagyományos baráti viszonyt a két ország ellenzéki mozgalmai ápolták leginkább. A Kádár-korszak poli...
Megtartó erő
1,726円 A Megtartó erő egy magyar-sváb iparoscsalád életét rekonstruálja. Illés Klára idős szüleivel készült izgalmas életút interjúit dokumentumok, levelek, naplóbejegyzések és visszaemlékezések egészítik ki. Így bontakozik ki egy jellegzetesen XX. századi történet: a mindennapi küzdelem a szegénységgel...
Vienna’s ‘respectable’ antisemites
15,919円 Vienna’s ‘respectable’ antisemites offers a radical challenge to conventional accounts of one of the darkest periods in the city’s history: the rise of organised, politically directed antisemitism between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. Drawing on original research into the Chris...
July 1944
1,269円 The aim of this volume is to shed light on a little known controversy about the most tragic year 1944, in Hungary: did a unit of the Hungarian army prevent the deportation of 300,000 Jewish Hungarians living in Budapest to the Nazi death camps? Colonel Ferenc Koszorús used the 1st Hungarian Armor...
Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia
5,305円 This book is a contribution to the global history of the transfer of political ideas, as exemplified by the case of modern Ethiopia. Like many non-European nation-states, Ethiopia adopted a western model of statehood, that is, the nation-state. Unlike the postcolonial polities that have retained ...
The Adventures of Cadet Lehner
996円 15-year-old Paul makes his final decision to leave home when his Jewish friend, Eva, is taken away by the Nazis. The only way Paul can get away from home is by enrolling in a cadet school. Soon, his school is evacuated and that is when Paul's adventures really begin. He survives the end-of-war-tu...
Billy Wilder on Assignment
2,647円 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, chosen by Tom Stoppard **"A revelation."ーMarc Weingarten, Washington Post Acclaimed film director Billy Wilder’s early writingsーbrilliantly translated into English for the first time** Before Billy Wilder became the screenwriter and director of icon...
The Lost Café Schindler
2,519円 **"An extraordinary and compelling book of reckonings." ーPhilippe Sands An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria.** Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left...
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