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Based on research in five languages and in archives across the globe, Habsburgs on the Rio Grande fundamentally revises narratives of global history. Far more than a footnote, the Second Mexican Empire was at the center of world-historic great-power struggles—a point of inflection in a contest for supremacy that set the terms of twentieth-century rivalry.

For the Children is a narrative memoir that tells the true story of the author's family's escape from Hungary and immigration to Canada in 1956, told from the viewpoint of the seven year old child he was at the time. After numerous attempts to flee from revolution torn Stalinist Hungary ending in capture and disappointment, the author's parents' pursuit to give their children a better life finally bears success as they walk to freedom across a well guarded and mine strewn border.

In diesem Buch werden Sie entdecken, was die Habsburger Unterlippe ist, wie eine Familie sich die Europäische Union ausmalte und wie der Konservatismus ein Reich ruinieren kann. Die Geschichte der Habsburger umfasst mehrere Zeitalter und jeder Herrscher war einzigartig und verdient unsere Aufmerksamkeit.

The life of Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete, a stern moralist yet possessed of deep, and at times dark, passions? And why did scores of thousands of Jews, many of them from traditional, observant backgrounds, embrace Herzl as their leader?

‘A truly major work, both deeply moving and incredibly powerful. A masterpiece of research, structure and writing . . . unforgettable’ – Sir Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad 'Painful, profound, prescient . . . a magisterial work' – Sonia Purnell, internationally...

A memoir of brutality, heroism, and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of World War II One night in March of 1945, on the Austrian-Hungarian border, a local countess hosted a party in her mansion, where guests and local Nazi...

Erzsébet Báthory was history's most prolific female serial killer. Born into Hungarian nobility in 1560 she became infamous for torturing and murdering hundreds of young girls between 1590 and 1610. Erzsébet was obsessed with maintaining her youth and beauty and believed that bathing in the fresh blood of virgins would preserve her youthfulness.

Este nuevo libro de Nieves Concostrina empieza en el Año de la Pera y llega a nuestros tiempos, pasando, cómo no, por Fernando VII. En estas historias podrá descubrir las consecuencias que trajo la única criadilla del último Austria, saber que fumamos por culpa de Colón, desmitificar el 2...

Delve into the sprawling saga of the Habsburg dynasty, whose influence was felt across Europe for over six centuries. From their humble beginnings to their dramatic decline during World War I, this audiobook provides a captivating look at the rulers who sat at the heart of European power and intrigue.

A spirited, poignant history of the seven daughters of the great Empress Maria Theresia—among them, Queen Marie Antoinette of France—tracing their lives as they balanced dynastic duty with personal ambition in a time of revolutionary cataclysm “Others make war; you, happy Austria, marry...