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1	Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust more books like this by Edith Hahn Beer, Susan Dworkin add to wishlist This memoir recounts how one Jewish woman went underground in Nazi Germany, bravely posing as a non-Jew to survive. In her deception, she fell in love with and married a Nazi Party member. Here, accompanied by reproductions of original documents, she describes the psychological trauma of her ordeal. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.18! \| first editions
2	A Death in Vienna more books like this by Daniel Silva add to wishlist This fourth volume in a series about Gabriel Allon sends the art restorer and Israeli spy to Vienna to investigate a bombing that put an old friend in a coma and left others dead. The case takes on a hideously personal cast when Allon discovers that an Austrian industrialist who seems to be connected to the incident might also be the brutal Nazi ... see all copies from £3.16! new only from £4.87! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Moonlight on the Magic Flute more books like this by Mary Pope Osborne (Read by) add to wishlist Jack and Annie head to 18th-century Austria, where they must find a musician by the name of Mozart. Their hunt is hampered by the appearance of a mischievous little boy who is determined to follow them everywhere. Illustrations. see all copies from £5.25! new only from £5.25!
4	Vienna Prelude more books like this by Bodie Thoene, Ph.D. add to wishlist Elisa Lindheim, of Jewish heritage, and John Murphy, New York Times reporter, become entangled in a web of intrigue, danger, and conspiracy. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Little Book more books like this by Selden Edwards add to wishlist An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than 30 years in the making, "The Little Book" is a breathtaking love story that spans generations, ranging from fin de siecle Vienna through the pivotal moments of the 20th century. see all copies from £1.45! new only from £5.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	A Death in Vienna more books like this by Dr. Frank Tallis add to wishlist In Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, Max Liebermann is at the forefront of psychoanalysis, practicing the controversial new science with all the skill of a master detective. Every dream, inflection, or slip of tongue in his "hysterical" patients has meaning and reveals some hidden truth. When a mysterious and beautiful medium dies under ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
7	Measure for Measure more books like this by William Shakespeare add to wishlist Written in 1604 when James I--a king particularly concerned with the religious aspects of his leadership--was fresh on the throne, MEASURE FOR MEASURE is a reflection of its time. In it, a sovereign's role in the legislation of morality is explored, as two extreme poles of government are navigated--the Duke's over-leniency as the play opens, and ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
8	Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture more books like this by Carl E Schorske add to wishlist A landmark study of Habsburg Vienna in the late 19th and 20th centuries by one of the truly original scholars of our time. Photos included. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.64! \| first editions
9	The Piano Teacher more books like this by Elfriede Jelinek add to wishlist Nobel Prizewinner Elfriede Jelinek's 1988 novel is the story of Erika Kohut, a middle-aged piano teacher in Vienna whose refuge from her constricted life is hardcore pornography. When she becomes involved in an affair with one of her piano students, she is able to fulfill her dark side as she forces him into increasingly sadomasochistic sexual ... see all copies from £2.57! new only from £2.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 more books like this by Frederic Morton add to wishlist see all copies from £4.96! new only from £6.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	A Song for Summer more books like this by Eva Ibbotson add to wishlist A love story about a young Englishwoman who takes a job as house mother at a Viennese boarding school just before World War II breaks out. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.60! \| first editions
12 view cover	Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 more books like this by James Reston, Jr. add to wishlist A bestselling historian recounts 16 years that shook the world--the epic clash between Europe and the Ottoman Turks that ended the Renaissance and brought Islam to the gates of Vienna. see all copies from £7.52! new only from £10.10! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Vienna Blood more books like this by Dr. Frank Tallis add to wishlist In the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation, a penchant for arcane symbols, and a seemingly random choice of victim are his most distinctive peculiarities. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt summons a young disciple of Freud - his friend Dr. Max Liebermann - to ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.72! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Complete Training of Horse and Rider in the Principles of Classical Horsemanship more books like this by Alois Podhajsky add to wishlist For over a quarter of a century, Colonel Alois Podhajsky was the Director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, home of the famous white Lipizzaner stallions whose remarkable performances have thrilled audiences throughout the world. Now for the first time, Col. Podhajsky has set forth explicitly and in practical, instructive fashion the step-by ... see all copies from £7.72! new only from £11.68! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Memorist more books like this by M J Rose add to wishlist As a child, Meers Logan had been haunted by memories of another time and place. Now the hand of the past has reached out again, in the form of a drawing of an 18th-century gaming box. Determined to unlock the mystery of who she once had been, Meers travels to Vienna to find the box. see all copies from £5.75! new only from £12.87! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Airs above the ground more books like this by Mary Stewart add to wishlist Vanessa March, two years married and very much in love, is propelled to Vienna by a shocking discovery. In her charge is young Timothy Lacy, who also has urgent problems to solve. But what promises to be no more than a delicate personal mission turns out to involve the security forces of three countries, two dead men, a circus and its colourful ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.33! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Fig Eater more books like this by Jody Shields add to wishlist A brutal killing takes place in a Vienna park in 1910, and the wife of the inspector assigned to the case decides that the key to the murderer involves the figs the victim ate shortly before her death--because fresh figs are not available in Vienna. Jody Shields thoroughly researched detection techniques from the period, as well as the food and ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.80! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Leap Into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe more books like this by Leo Bretholz, Michael Olesker add to wishlist This Holocaust memoir documents the many escapes Leo Bretholz made, eluding Nazis in Vienna, Belgium, France, and eventually en route to Auschwitz. According to records, he was officially executed in a gas chamber in Auschwitz, but actually he jumped off the train, making his way eventually to safety. see all copies from £4.56! new only from £9.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914 more books like this by Frederic Morton add to wishlist From the author of A Nervous Splendor, a dazzling portrait of the epicenter of the apocalypse that was World War I. Thunder at Twilight is a landmark of historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Viennaand in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.72! \| first editions
20 view cover	36 Yalta Boulevard more books like this by Olen Steinhauer add to wishlist Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Historical Dagger finalist Olen Steinhauer continues his brilliant and acclaimed suspense series. see all copies from £7.18! new only from £7.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	A German Requiem more books like this by Philip Kerr add to wishlist A novel featuring Bernie Gunther, the private eye hero of "March Violets" and "The Pale Criminal". World War II ends and Bernie gets involved in the murky world of postwar cold war intrigue. The plot concerns various ex-Nazis who save their skins by working for US intelligence. see all copies from £4.44! new only from £40.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Man Without Qualities more books like this by Professor Robert Musil add to wishlist This long-awaited new translation, the first in English to provide a complete text, brings to its readers one of the greatest masterpieces in all twentieth-century literature in a two-volume boxed set. The Man Without Qualities stands alongside Proust's Remembrance of Things Past and Joyce's Ulysses as one of the three literary masterworks of ... see all copies from £5.59! new only from £11.64! \| first editions
23 view cover	The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1 more books like this by Professor Robert Musil, Sophie Wilkins (Translator), Burton Pike (Translator) add to wishlist A new, complete translation in two volumes of the momentous novel described by "The New York Times Book Review" as "unfinished and unfinishable." Documenting the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the novel begins just before World War I to explore the "Age of Anxiety." see all copies from £7.43! new only from £12.02!
24 view cover	Fatal Lies more books like this by Dr. Frank Tallis add to wishlist It is Vienna, 1903. In St. Florian's military school, a rambling edifice set high in the hills of the City's famous woods, a young cadet is found dead - his body lacerated with razor wounds. Once again, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt calls on his friend - and disciple of Freud - Doctor Max Liebermann, to help him with the investigation. In the closed ... see all copies from £3.41! new only from £5.06!
25 view cover	The Tale of the 1002nd Night more books like this by Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann (Translator) add to wishlist This fanciful novel, a tribute to Roth's beloved Vienna, was first published in 1939, and is based on an incident in 1873 when the Shah of Persia was visiting Europe. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.88! \| first editions

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