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“A writer who captures the moods, the atmosphere of Vienna at different periods brilliantly is Ilsa Barea who wrote a book called Vienna: Legend and Reality published in 1921. It is a kind of love-hatred letter to the city that she had had to flee and captures the feelings of nostalgia tinged with melancholy. She evokes the Baroque city and even more the Biedermeier age (after the Napoleonic war, 1815-1848) very vividly.” Read more...
Nicholas Parsons, Historian
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Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1948
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Individualism and Economic Order
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