vienna

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.

Edith Hahn tells how she survived the Holocaust, first by going underground, using a Christian friend's identity papers, and eventually marrying Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who knew she was Jewish.

Presents a biography on the life of eighteenth-century German composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, and examines his early musical career, study under Haydn, his important compositions, and how he did not let his deafness interfere with his music.

An illustrated biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, discussing his childhood, his early study and performance of music, his career as a composer, and his struggles with deafness and depression.

Eighteen-year-old Ellen is surprised by the unique surroundings of the Hallendorf School in Austria, where she discovers an eccentric world filled with wild children, experimental dancers, a tortoise on wheels, and Marek, a part-time gardener and fencing teacher whom Ellen is attracted to, but when Hitler's Reich threatens the school, Ellen realizes the dangers their love faces.

Tells the life story of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century composer Ludwig van Beethoven, describing his childhood in Germany, his decades in Vienna, his great works, and his later years, including his encroaching deafness, and provides a glossary of musical terms, a chronology, and a bibliography.

Rudi Friemel, a soldier with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, is captured and eventually sent to Auschwitz where he petitions and is granted permission to marry his sweetheart Marga, the mother of his child.

Young Englishwoman Ellen Carr, a housemother at an unorthodox boarding school in Vienna, has made a happy life for herself and the other workers and students she has taken under her wing, but the idyllic world she has created is disrupted when Hitler begins his reign of terror.

Presents the story of the Kalman family who traveled from Hungary to Austria during the Hungarian revolution in 1956, also provides a history of Hungary from 1848 to 1956, and a look at life under Communist rule.