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Books about Colditz run into the dozens, and others about escapes from German prisoner of war camps would be in triple figures, so author Macintyre is necessarily offering something new, what’s described as access to an unprecedented range of material that adds up to ...

It is March 12, 1938 and German troops are marching into Austria without a shot fired. Adolf Hitler is absorbing the country of his birth into the Third Reich. His anti-Semitism is vicious and Jews have been fleeing him for years. But Vienna’s most ...

What a fascinating read – The Ronettes were near the top of the rock ’n’ roll world for a while, then singer Ronnie Spector had no career, no husband, no babies – and no hair, the long sexy hair that was her last thing ...

One year after Austrian author and journalist Stefan Haderer wrote his first book on Empress Elisabeth and her special relationship with Greece, the English translation is finally out. Under the Spell of a Myth, independently published with Amazon KDP, provides a fresh perspective on ...

A bit of an odd thing happened after Peter Bills published his book in August 2018 about the all-conquering New Zealand All Blacks rugby union teams that had a better winning record than any other sports teams in history – they actually started to ...

Slovakia is guest of honour at the 27th International Book Festival Budapest to be held from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 at Budapest's Millenaris Park, organisers told a press conference on Thursday.

Prolific he may have been but prolix he was not. Georges Simenon, the author of some 400 books (about half of them any good, the rest unabashed pulp), said he once read a statistic that half the people in France used no more than ...

In the wider context of a world war spilling blood on three continents, the quick Allied raid on the French Channel port of Dieppe on August 18, 1942 was a minor episode compared with what was to follow. But it was big at this ...

After the Nazi war machine – the Blitzkrieg – steamrollered through the Low Countries and France in May 1940, some 338,000 trapped Allied troops were evacuated across the Channel in the “Miracle of Dunkirk”. The threat of an invasion of England became very real, ...

Debut novelist Alexander York has seemingly gone for filmic atmosphere rather than minor style issues such as crossing the “t”s and dotting the “i”s, and Hungarians can be along for the scenic ride as the action sets out from England and passes numerous Magyarország ...