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Hungary Month by Month (116 events, festivals with pictures!)
$ 45.00The ”best of Hungary” chronologically through the year. The guidebook gives details of 116 events and things worth seeing, + further 640, listed without details. Illustrated by 350 coloured photographs, and the map and GPS co-ordinates will be useful.
Journey to a revolution – Personal memoir of 1956, Hungary
$ 19.99In October 1956, Michael Korda and three friends traveled to Budapest to bring badly needed medicine to the hospitals; and to participate, at street level, in one of the great battles of the postwar era. Journey to a Revolution is at once history and a compelling memoir; the author’s riveting account of the course of the revolution, from its heroic beginnings to the sad martyrdom of its end.
Memoir of Hungary 1944-1948
$ 45.00A seamless combination of the political, literary and personal history of postwar Hungary. This scathing, at times humorous, and always insightful memoir by exiled Hungarian novelist Sandor Marai provides one of the most poignant and humanly alive portraits of life in Hungary between the German occupation in 1944 and the solidification of communist power in 1948.
Mimi – The story of a Hungarian aristocrat before World War II.)
$ 28.95MIMI is a magnificent work, as is its heroine of the same name. She is a true aristocrat, yet at the same time a real human being. The social conflicts and political convulsions of the period of World War II are depicted beautifully and realistically. The tragedy of the victims of the holocaust brings their human misery right into the reader’s living room.
One Must Also Be Hungarian
$ 22.90The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as “this people has already suffered for its past and its future,” Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darker and more tragic turn during the Holocaust. But the story of the Jews in Hungary is also one of survival, heroism, and even humor—and that is the one acclaimed author Adam Biro sets out to recover in One Must Also Be Hungarian, an inspiring and altogether poignant look back at the lives of his family members over the past two hundred years.
Paprika: A Spicy Memoir From Hungary
$ 42.90For Hungarians the past is always present at the dinner table, as is curiosity, sensitivity and a love for the spicy parts of life. This is a culture, after all, who love their paprika almost as much as they love a good yarn.
