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Menelanna

Menelanna

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I am always seeking to learn something new, and I love reading things from unusual or different perspectives. I tend to read multiple books at once and constantly to be looking for more suggestions.
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  • Annette N

    Annette N says

    Hi! I'm Annette from Austria! :) I've looked through the books on your shelf and found that you have a lot of very interesting ones. I'm impressed, you've read quite a bit about Austrian history, btw. ;)
    Would you mind letting me know if you liked "The Sound of Language" (on your "reading" list)? I never heard about it before, but I think it looks good.
    Thanks! :)

    Annette

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • mossflower

    mossflower says

    Brewer-Ward, Daniel A. The House of Habsburg: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Empress Maria Theresia. Clearfield, 1996.
    Crankshaw, Edward. The Fall of the House of Habsburg. Sphere Books Limited, London, 1970. (first published by Longmans in 1963)
    Evans, Robert J. W. The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550–1700: An Interpretation. Clarendon Press, 1979.
    McGuigan, Dorothy Gies. The Habsburgs. Doubleday, 1966.
    Palmer, Alan. Napoleón and Marie Louise Ariel Mexico, 2003.
    Wandruszka, Adam. The House of Habsburg: Six Hundred Years of a European Dynasty. Doubleday, 1964 (Greenwood Press, 1975).


    Robert John Weston Evans, The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550–1700: An Interpretation, Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN 0-19-873085-3.


    Fiction

    Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser
    A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 by Frederic Morton
    The Fall of the House of Habsburg by Edward Crankshaw
    Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor… by Alan Palmer
    The eagles die: Franz Joseph, Elisabeth, and their Austria by George R. Marek
    Golden fleece; the story of Franz Joseph & Elizabeth of… by Bertita Harding
    Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria - A Biography by Joseph Redlich
    The Pomp and Politics of Patriotism: Imperial Celebrations… by Daniel L. Unowsky
    Verona e Vienna : gli arsenali dell'Imperatore :… by Lino Vittorio Bozzetto


    The Puppet Crown (1901)
    by Harold MacGrath (Author)
    Format: Kindle Edition
    File Size: 634 KB
    Print Length: 276 pages
    Publisher: B2BZone (May 21, 2009)
    Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
    Language: English
    ASIN: B002ASA7RQ



    A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918
    by Kann (Author) "The permanent affiliation of the Habsburg dynasty, the ruling house in the German Alpine hereditary lands, with the lands of the Bohemian and Hungarain-Croatian crowns..."
    Paperback: 661 pages
    Publisher: University of California Press (1 July 1992)
    Language English
    ISBN-10: 0520042069
    ISBN-13: 978-0520042063
    'An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty...The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in its comprehensiveness and objectivity, however, nor even in the wide knowledge and special expertise Kann can bring to bear from his early legal training, his formidable scholarship on the nationalities question, and his keen critical appreciation of the diverse cultures of the monarchy. Its greatest merit derives from the author's determination always to ask fundamental questions, his care to discriminate between surface phenomena and deeper causes, his skill in finding significant patterns in an apparently chaotic welter of events, his facility for perceptive and penetrating distinctions and generalizations. In short, he tried with considerable success to tell what really happened in history rather than simply what obviously happened'


    The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary
    A J P Taylor (Author)
    Paperback: 304 pages
    Publisher: Penguin; New Ed edition (27 Sep 1990)
    Language English
    ISBN-10: 0140134980
    ISBN-13: 978-0140134988
    A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace, stability and common loyalty to a hetergeneous population.
    About the Author
    A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) was one of the most controversial historians of the twentieth century. He served as a lecturer at the Universities of Manchester, Oxford, and London.


    The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
    Andrew Wheatcroft (Author)
    Paperback: 368 pages
    Publisher: Pimlico (6 Aug 2009)
    Language English
    ISBN-10: 1844137414
    ISBN-13: 978-1844137411
    In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender to the largest army ever assembled by the Turks created an all-or-nothing scenario: every last survivor would be enslaved or ruthlessly slaughtered. Both sides remained resolute, sustained by hatred of their age-old enemy, certain that their victory would be won by the grace of God. Eastern invaders had always threatened the West, but the memory of the Turks, to whom the West's ancient and deep fear of the East is viscerally attached, remains vivid and powerful. Long before their 1453 conquest of Constantinople, the Turks had raised the art of war to heights not seen since the Roman Empire.Although their best recorded and most infamous attack, the 1683 siege was the historical culmination, not the extent, of the Turks' sustained attempt to march westwards and finally obtain the city they had long called 'The Golden Apple'. Their defeat was to mark the beginning of the decline of the Ottoman Empire. With Turkey now seeking to re-orient itself towards the west and a new generation of politicians exploiting the residual fear and tensions between East and West, "The Enemy at the Gate" provides a timely and masterful account of this most complex and epic of conflicts.
    About the Author
    Andrew Wheatcroft is the author of many books on early modern and modern history, and most recently The Ottomans (1995) and The Habsburgs (1996). During the writing of Infidels, on which he has been working for more than seventeen years, he has researched in Austria, Bahrain, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Spain, Turkey, the UAE, and the USA. His previous books have been translated into over ten languages. He is based in Dumfriesshire, and is currently Director of The Centre for Publishing Studies.


    Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps 1848-1918
    István Deák (Author)
    Hardcover: 314 pages
    Publisher: OUP USA (19 July 1990)
    Language English
    ISBN-10: 019504505X
    ISBN-13: 978-0195045055
    István Deák examines the Habsburg officer corps and the way in which it became the foremost preserver of the multi-ethnic Austro-Hungarian empire from the mid-nineteeth century to the empire's defeat in 1918. The officer corps was an important cohesive force in the empire, for it created a unified and loyal army from recruits representing all the different nationalities and ethnic groups of Austro-Hungary. The policies, character, social structure, and self-image of the Habsburg army have been neglected in the extensive literature on the origins of the First World War. Deák provides the most comprehensive social and cultural portrait to date of this important institution.

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  • uplandpoet

    uplandpoet says

    Welcome to Better than Starbucks! Look around, make yourself at home, start a new thread or dig up an old one or just read and jump in on the more active ones.

    We are honored to be one of your first groups!

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  • Enjoumaru

    Enjoumaru says

    Oh! That's so cool! Though I have to admit, I'm not really surprised. She does so many neat things and never tells us.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Eliza ?

    Eliza ? says

    Beckett comes as translated, he did a lot of it himself, and sometimes added weird differences. Reading "Endgame" in both French and English is pretty cool if you speak both.

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  • Sarah M

    Sarah M says

    Yes. I think you would like it.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • dove /,

    dove /,") says

    Thank you for adding me...

    peace,
    dove

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Enjoumaru

    Enjoumaru says

    I might have Persepolis somewhere. We had to read it for Morris's class. I'll look for it for you.

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  • Enjoumaru

    Enjoumaru says

    I'm not sure Beckett actually comes as translated literature. Haha.

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  • Enjoumaru

    Enjoumaru says

    Oh, so Chad says 2666 (read "twenty-six sixty-six") by Bolaño is the best book to come out in his reading lifetime. I feel like we should check it out.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Enjoumaru

    Enjoumaru says

    Piers Plowman, I need to read that too.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )

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