Author: György KlapkaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hungary
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Memoirs of the War of Independence in Hungary
Author: György KlapkaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hungary
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Memoirs of the War of Independence in Hungary
Author: György KlapkaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hungary
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Personal Adventures During the Late War of Independence in Hungary
Author: Wilhelmine Beck (Baronin von)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hungary
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Ring of Steel
Author: Alexander WatsonPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465056873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
A prize-winning, magisterial history of World War I from the perspective of the defeated Central Powers For the Central Powers, the First World War started with high hopes for an easy victory. But those hopes soon deteriorated as Germany's attack on France failed, Austria-Hungary's armies suffered catastrophic losses, and Britain's ruthless blockade brought both nations to the brink of starvation. The Central powers were trapped in the Allies' ever-tightening Ring of Steel. In this compelling history, Alexander Watson retells the war from the perspective of its losers: not just the leaders in Berlin and Vienna, but the people of Central Europe. The war shattered their societies, destroyed their states, and imparted a poisonous legacy of bitterness and violence. A major reevaluation of the First World War, Ring of Steel is essential for anyone seeking to understand the last century of European history.
One Woman in the War
Author: Alaine PolczPublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633860059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Before the publication of this book, Alaine Polcz was widely recognized as a psychologist ministering to the needs of disturbed and incurably ill children and their families, as the author of numerous articles and several books on thanatology, and as the founder of the hospice movement in Hungary. The autobiographic account of the experiences of a woman, then 19-20, in the closing months of the Second World War. When it was first published, in 1991, the book was a revelation of past horrors in Hungary which, until then, had lingered on in the farthest reaches of the national memory as rumor and suspicion about the violent acts committed against women during a time of chaos, havoc, and savagery. The literary world quickly recognized the merits of this book: It was highly praised by Hungarian reviewers, awarded prizes, and has already been translated into French, Rumanian, Slovenian, and Serbian.
Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer
Author: Robert ElsiePublisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 615522580X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travelers and scholars of Southeast Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. He was also a paleontologist of renown and a noted geologist of the Balkan Peninsula : many of his assumptions have been confirmed by science. The Memoirs of this fascinating figure deal mainly with his travels in the Balkans, and specifically in the remote and wild mountains of northern Albania, in the years from 1903 to 1914. They thus cover the period of Ottoman Rule, the Balkan Wars and the outbreak of the First World War. Nopcsa was a keen adventurer who hiked through regions of northern Albania.ÿ With time, he became a leading expert in Albanian studies. He was also deeply involved in the politics of the period. In 1913,ÿNopcsa even offered himself as a candidate for the vacant Albanian throne. The Introduction also tells of Nopcsa?s tragic death: he shot his Albanian secretary and partner before killing himself. The memoirs themselves reveal some references to his homosexuality for those who can read between the lines. ÿ
Kossuth and the Hungarian War
Author: Catalogue of the Circulating Department
Author: Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Lending Library
Author: State library of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: William Harrison De PuyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description