Author: Marina Polvay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780781800983
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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For novices and gourmets, this unique cookbook offers a tempting variety of Central European recipes from the shores of the Danube River, bringing Old World flavor to today's dishes.
Author: Phd T Zane Reeves
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1618972758
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 415
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Shoes Along the Danube refers to the memorial of cast iron shoes that honor Hungarian Holocaust victims. Based on a true story, this amazing book follows the lives of two extended Hungarian families, the R zlers and the F ldes, one gentile and the other Jewish, through three decades.-----The story begins in pre-World War II Budapest, as increasing fascism and anti-Semitism lead Hungary to become an ally of Germany. In 1944, Germany invades Hungary to exterminate Europe's last remaining group of Jews at the infamous Auschwitz death camp. The story builds through the siege of Budapest, the Russian occupation of Hungary, and separation by exile.-----Julius R zler is a rising star among Budapest academics and refuses to compromise his integrity. His American half-brother, Francis, is a diplomat helping democratic Hungarians fight Nazis, and later organizes covert activities against the communists. Agnes F ldes is a Jewish woman who fights to maintain her dignity during the Holocaust.-----"Professor Reeves tells a fascinating story of two of his Hungarian-American friends, Julius and my cousin Agnes, who grew up between world wars in Gentile and Jewish families on Rose Hill, an affluent district of Budapest. Even though Hungary was forced to become Germany's wartime ally, it looked that Hungarian Jews would be spared the genocide occurring throughout Europe. Yet, in 1944 everything changed when the Germans occupy Hungary for the purpose of exterminating its Jews. Reeves recounts the experiences of Holocaust victims and survivors, Righteous Gentiles who save Jews, as well as a dramatic ending in which a husband and wife are forced to choose between their vows and freedom." - S. A. Colman, Sydney, Australia -----"A fascinating, honest look at lives intertwined with the history unfolding around them set against the very real backdrop of that tumultuous history itself. The Shoes Along the Danube is a most fitting allegory for all those that left their lives behind. Highly recommended" - Bryan Dawson, Executive Chairman, American Hungarian Federation
Author: Derek R. Brown
Publisher: Melrose Book Company
ISBN: 9781906561574
Category : Danube River
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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Author: Andrew Beattie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199768358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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A detailed history of the Danube river.
Author: Nick Thorpe
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300181655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
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The author takes us on an unexpected journey "up" the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar world
Author: Charles Farkas
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438447590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Germany's invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In this poignant memoir, Charles Farkas offers a testament to this vanished way of life—its society, morality, personal integrity, wealth, traditions, and chivalry—as well as an eyewitness account of its destruction, begun at the hands of the Nazis and then completed under the heel of Soviet Communism. Farkas's recollections of growing up in Budapest, a city whose grandeur embraced—indeed spanned—the Danube River; his vivid descriptions of everyday life in Hungary before, during, and after World War II; and his ultimate flight to freedom in the United States remind us that behind the larger historical events of the past century are the stories of the individual men and women who endured and, ultimately, survived them.
Author: Claudio Magris
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446433803
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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'Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once' Independent on Sunday WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments - from Ovid to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the vital crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam.
Author: Steven K. Drummond
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9781563241505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Discusses Rome's challenges in governing over different cultures, organizing an army made of non-Romans, inculcating Roman values and religion, feeding the army, trading, urbanizing, and industrializing. To make this work accessible to readers who lack an extensive background in Roman history, all Latin expressions are defined in the course of the discussion, a glossary is included, and modern as well as contemporary Latin names of places are used. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Thomas KABDEBO
Publisher: Phaeton Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1908420057
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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A gripping personal story that is also the dramatic story of 20th century Hungary, with foreword by the President of Hungary, Arpad Goncz.
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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