Human Action Scholars Edition by Ludwig Von Mises Institute $166.96
This edition has dusk jacket but no protective slip case!Human Action: A Treatise on Economics is the most important book on political economy you will ever own. It was (and remains) the most comprehensive, systematic, forthright, and powerful defense of the economics of liberty ever written. This is the Scholars Edition: accept no substitute. You will treasure this volume. The Scholars Edition...
Szent István: Hungary's Battleship by
Despite being a land-locked country, Hungary once had a dreadnought battleship - SMS Szent István. This article describes the ship and its short wartime career.
The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography by Harry Zohn $19.95
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that "was loaded down with a burden of fate as was...
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Basic Books $27.50
In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the Golden Apple,” as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled with guns as the besieging Ottoman host launched bombs, fired cannons, and showered the...
Imperial Spain: 1469-1716 by Plume $10.95
A brilliant study of the sudden rise of a barren and isolated country to be the greatest power on earth, and of its equally sudden decline.
A Survivor's Story; Enduring and Overcoming the Horrors of the Holocaust by $3.99
A fascinating and remarkable true story of survival, risk-taking and how a man and his wife could rise from the horrors of the Holocaust to carve out a prosperous and meaningful life for themselves and their progeny. This memoir recounts Bela Kertesz’s (now Bill Kertes) upbringing in a well-to-do Jewish Hungarian family residing in Rumania during the period between the world wars through 1944...
The Thirty Years War, Complete (Illustrated) by Amanda Lee $0.99
• This book contains 15 or more unique illustrations relevant to its content• This is a complete history of the Thirty Years’ of War in Germany by Frederick Schiller. The war continued from 1618 to 1648 and was one of the most destructive conflicts in Europe. The main reason for the war was of a religious nature more precisely, the war was fought between Catholics and Protestants.
Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America by Simon & Schuster $16.00
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE IS A TOUR DE FORCE, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in America. In this true-life thriller Kati Marton, an award-winning journalist, exposes the cruel mechanics of the Communist Terror State using the secret police files on her parents, as well as dozens...
Hitler : 1889-1936 Hubris by Penguin Books Canada, Limited
The World of Lady Lazarus by $0.99
Michele Lang is the author of the acclaimed LADY LAZARUS historical fantasy series from Tor. In this little guide, you will find a window into the historical and metaphysical context for the series – the intense, fascinating café culture of Budapest in the 1930s. A non-fiction collection of information and essays to complement the fantasy series.