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An inspiring and haunting memoir of a teenager who survived the Nazi death camps of World War ll with her mother and brother.

"[Presents the biography of] Elizabeth B?thory ... daughter of a powerful family, the wife of a military hero, a concerned mother, and a caretaker of her many lands. Elizabeth B?thory was an accused serial killer ... She may have been responsible for as many as 650 murders over the course of her lifetime"--page four.

"Before Johan Cruyff and Diego Maradona, modern soccer was shaped by legends like Guszt?v Sebes, B?la Guttman, M?rton Bukovi, Egri Ebstein, and Imre Herschel. In the 1920s and 1930s, they gathered with fellow players and coaches in the coffeehouses Budapest and invented soccer as we know it today. By the 1940s their culture was gone and these men and women, many of whom were Jewish, would be dead, interned, or in exile, their contributions to the beautiful game forgotten. In 'The Names Heard Long Ago', Jonathan Wilson invites readers into the pre-World War II era, when Hungary first established professional leagues. An unprecedented number of middle-class people in both countries took an interest in the sport. They were largely university educated, and they instinctively applied academic techniques and analysis to the game. 'The Names Heard Long Ago' is as much about the individuals who cultivated the way the game is played as it is a tale of a way of life that was wiped out by fascism"--OCLC.

In 1956 Budapest, eighteen-year-old Jewish orphan Csilla keeps her head down and quietly plots her escape from the communist-controlled country, even as the government publicly exonerates her parents whom they murdered some years earlier for crimes against the state. When she meets Tam?s, whose boyfriend was also murdered, they decide to join a growing band of resistance fighters in the city. Watching over the events is the angel of death, Azriel.

During the 1956 Hungarian Revolution in post-WWII Communist Budapest, Csilla must decide whether to fight for her deeply flawed country or let it burn to the ground after her late parents are unexpectedly, publicly exonerated.

"In 1578 Hungary, sixteen-year-old Anna is elevated from scullery maid to chambermaid by the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth B?thory, falling completely under the Countess's spell until Anna realizes that she is not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel and murderous Elizabeth"--Provided by publisher.

An introduction to Hungary, providing information on the country's geography, history, culture, landmarks, wildlife, people, politics, and more, with maps, graphs, and a time line.

"The Binding is broken. M?ty?s is alive. And Anna Arden is on the run. It seems, yet again, that breaking the Binding has shattered the world. And the only hope of mending it is Anna and M?ty?s, working together. But it's never that simple, is it? The praetheria, the creatures once held captive by the spell, are now waging war against the Austro-Hungarian empire. And they are holding No?mi hostage--using her life to manipulate Anna and M?ty?s, like marionettes on a string. G?bor has elected to stay behind, to fight in the Hungarian army's resistance, while Anna and M?ty?s search for their beloved No?mi--a mission doomed from the start, cloaked in praetherian magic. Magic that relies on illusion and misdirection. Eventually, there's only one way to save her: to split up. And to walk right into the lion's den. When everyone thinks they're fighting each other for the same thing--freedom--can anyone truly win?"--Amazon.com.

Recounts the bewilderment of being a Jewish child in Hungary between 1939 and 1944, and relates the ordeal of survival in the ghetto.