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Alexander Solschenizyn: Der Archipel Gulag 2

FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2008

In den drei Bänden seines monumentalen Werks »Der Archipel GULAG« hat Solschenizyn die Geschichte des GULAG, dieses Reichs des Terrors, mit der dokumentarischen Sorgfalt eines Historikers und der Sprachgewalt eines großen Epikers aufgezeichnet.

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Anne Applebaum: Between East and West

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2015

As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, Anne Applebaum travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Carpathian mountains.

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Ben MacIntyre: SAS: Rogue Heroes

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2022

From the secret SAS archives and bestselling author Ben Macintyre: The first ever authorized history of the SAS.

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Bill Bryson: Bill Bryson's African Diary

DOUBLEDAY, 2016

Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world.

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Bill O'Reilly: Killing the Witches

ST.MARTIN'S PRESS, 2023

Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts.

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Bryan Cartledge: The Will to Survive: A History of Hungary

C HURST & CO PUBLISHERS LTD, 2011

This book describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the tragedies of its history to become a sovereign democratic country.

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Price: 14 450 Ft

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Christopher Hibbert: Rome: The Biography of a City

PENGUIN BOOKS, 1987

This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City.

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Price: 7 495 Ft

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Claudia Gold: Women Who Ruled

QUERCUS, 2015

Poisoners', 'whores', 'witches' and 'murderers' - or so their enemies claimed.

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Czeslaw Milosz: The Captive Mind

PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2001

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.

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David Cressy: Gypsies: An English History

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020

Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and-more recently-Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times?

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Duncan Barrett: When the Germans Came

SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2019

In the summer of 1940, Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one, the nations of Europe had fallen to the unstoppable German Blitzkrieg, and Hitler’s sights were set on the English coast.

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Eric Jay Dolin: Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

LIVERIGHT PUBLISHING, 2023

The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation’s character.

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Ernesto Che Guevara: Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2021

The Cuban Revolution changed the course of the twentieth century. Following years of brutal tyranny and poverty, a band of idealistic young people fought against immense odds to overthrow a dictator and emerged victorious.

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Eugene Nesmeyanov: The Titanic Expeditions

THE HISTORY PRESS, 2022

The remains of the world’s most famous passenger liner, RMS Titanic, were discovered off the coast of Newfoundland in 1985, seventy-three years after it sank.

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Gerald of Wales : The Journey Through Wales and The Description of Wales

PENGUIN BOOKS, 1978

Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and "The Journey Through Wales" describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188.

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Hans-Ulrich Thamer: Die Französische Revolution

C.H. BECK VERLAG, 2019

Als epochales Ereignis hat die Französische Revolution weit über den nationalen Rahmen hinaus tiefe Spuren in der politischen und sozialen Entwicklung anderer Länder hinterlassen.

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Hitler, Mein Kampf - Eine kritische Edition

INSTITUT FÜR ZEITGESCHICHTE, 2016

„Mein Kampf“ ist Hitlers wichtigste politische Schrift. Sie ist gleichermaßen stilisierte Autobiografie, ideologisches Programm, Parteigeschichte, Hetzschrift und Anleitung zur Erringung der Macht, weit über Deutschland hinaus.

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Hungary and the fall of Eastern Europe 1000-1568

OSPREY PUBLISHING, 1988

Although not widely studied in the West, the medieval history of south-eastern Europe is both fascinating and complex.

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Ian Kershaw: Roller-Coaster - Europe 1950-2017

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2019

From one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the bestselling author of Hitler, this is the definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present.

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Ian Kershaw: To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

PENGUIN, 2016

In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from.

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ISIS - The State of Terror

HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2016

The first major book on ISIS to be published since the group exploded on the international stage in summer 2014.

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Jeremy Harte: Travellers through Time: A Gypsy History

REAKTION BOOKS, 2023

Romany Gypsies have been variously portrayed as exotic strangers or as crude, violent delinquents; this book is the first real history of the Romany people, from the inside.

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Jonah Goldberg: Liberal Fascism

PENGUIN BOOKS, 2009

Today the word 'fascist' is usually an insult aimed at those on the right, from neocons to big business. But what does it really mean?

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Ken Follett: Notre-Dame

PAN BOOKS, 2019

This edition contains an exclusive extract from The Evening and the Morning, a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth, publishing Autumn 2020.

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Price: 3 950 Ft

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Mary Beard: Emperor of Rome

PROFILE BOOKS, 2024

What was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world?

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Mary Beard: Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

PROFILE BOOKS, 2009

The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire.

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Price: 4 725 Ft

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Matthew Hills: Fan Cultures

ROUTLEDGE, 2002

Emphasising the contradictions of fandom, Matt Hills outlines how media fans have been conceptualised in cultural theory.

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Merlin and the Grail

BOYDELL & BREWER LTD, 2007

The trilogy of Arthurian romances attributed by Robert de Boron, translated by Nigel Bryant.CONTENT: JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA; MERLIN; PARCEVAL

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Miklós Molnar: Histoire de la Hongrie

TEMPUS, 2004

De l'arrivée des Magyars sur les bords du Danube au XIIe siecle a aujourd'hui, la constitution de la nation hongroise.

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Nathan Thrall: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

PENGUIN, 2024

Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits: his bus is involved in a horrific accident.

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Norman Stone: Hungary - A Short History

PROFILE BOOKS, 2020

The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation.

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Paul Lendvai: The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat

HURST & COMPANY LONDON, 2021

This work is a blend of narrative, irony and humour; of occasional anger without taboos or prejudices. It also offers an authoritative key to understanding how and why this corner of Europe has produced such a galaxy of great scientists, artists and entr

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Peter Frankopan: The New Silk Roads The Present and Future of the World

BLOOMSBURY, 2019

The New Silk Roads takes a fresh look at the relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the ancient trade routes today. The world is changing dramatically and in an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permea

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Peter Frankopan: The Silk Roads

BLOOMSBURY, 2016

For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west – in the New World of the Americas.

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Philippa Gregory: Normal Women - 900 Years of Making History

WILLIAM COLLINS, 2023

In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, she tells the story of our nation over 900 years, but for the very first time women – some fifty per cent of the population – are no longer invisible in this history of England, but are at its beating heart.

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Raymond Ibrahim: Defenders of the West

BOMBARDIER BOOKS, 2022

In Defenders of the West, the author of Sword and Scimitar follows up with vivid and dramatic profiles of eight extraordinary warriors—some saints, some sinners—who defended the Christian West against Islamic invasions.

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Rethinking Modern Polish Identities: Transnational Encounters

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER PRESS, 2023

A critical examination of the category of "Polishness" - that is, the formation, redefinition, and performance of various kinds of Polish identities - from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives.

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Simon Sebag Montefiore: Jerusalem

W&N, 2024

The history of Jerusalem is the story of the world: Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths.

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Sir Rodric Braithwaite: Russia - Myths and Realities

PROFILE BOOKS, 2023

With its attack on Ukraine, Russia's future seems almost as uncertain as its past. The largest country in the world - with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons - has been known over the past thousand years as Rus, Muscovy, the Russian Empire...

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Talar Chahinian: Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2023

In Stateless, Talar Chahinian offers a rich exploration of Western Armenian literary history in the wake of the 1915 genocide that led to the dispersion of Armenians across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and beyond.

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Talin Suciyan: Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2023

The history of Tanzimat in the Ottoman Empire has largely been narrated as a unique period of equality, reform, and progress, often framing it as the backdrop to modern Turkey.

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Tania Branigan: Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

FABER & FABER, 2024

An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness.

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The American Counterculture

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007

This introduction explores the relationship between the counterculture and American popular culture. It looks at the ways in which Hollywood and corporate record labels commodified and adapted countercultural texts

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The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020

The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place.

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