I ​Kiss Your Hands Many Times Hearts, ​Souls, and Wars in Hungary

dr. Plihál Katalin - The Finest Illustrated Maps of Hungary
Maps are true reflections of history. They offer snapshots of conditions in the region they deal with at a given moment. The present volume invites the readers for a journey in time by means of early and more recent maps preserved in the National Széchényi Library. The journey begins with the Tabula Hungariae published in 1528, the most beautifully executed map of a country in the first half of the 16th century, and the richest in geographical content that became a UNESCO-protected cultural treasure in 2007. Then come maps from the period of the Turkish occupation, maps of castles and sieges, and finally ones made after the expulsion of the Turks. We take excursions also in 18th-century Transylvania, and in Southeastern Europe, as well. Some maps in the volume present contemporary Hungarian costumes, inform us about the distribution of the nationalities, or give an overview of Franciscan monasteries in the country. They offer a peculiar insight into political and military events considered important at the time of their making, which makes the book an unparallelled selection in its kind. These maps are geographic masterpieces and enrapturing pieces of art at the same time. The volume is made special also by the fact that it not only offers valuable information about the birth of the maps, the lives of their creators, and the technical aspects of mapmaking but makes a close scrutiny possible on the enclosed DVD. Come with us, the journey is going to be delightful.

Ismeretlen szerző - Több ​mint szolidaritás / Więcej niż solidarność / Solidarity and more
"Történelmi ​barátság - ez köti össze a magyarokat és a lengyeleket. Mit rejt magában ez a szókapcsolat? Sokan írtak erről szép mondatokat és bölcs gondolatokat. Dinasztikus rokonságok, a közös ellenség elleni harc, csoportos segítségnyújtások, költők, muzsikusok, katonák, politikusok, tudósok barátságai, és még hosszan sorolhatnánk az aranylánc ragyogó szemeit. Ezt teszi a Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Több mint szolidaritás című kiállítása is, abból az alkalomból, hogy Lengyelország veszi át tőlünk, magyaroktól az Európai Unió Tanácsának soros elnöki tisztét." Csorba László, Bevezető

Art Spiegelman - Maus: ​A Survivor's Tale - And Here My Troubles Began
Acclaimed ​as a "quiet triumph"* and a "brutally moving work of art,"** the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. As the New York Times Book Review commented," [it is] a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event." This long-awaited sequel, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Vladek's troubled remarriage, minor arguments between father and son, and life's everyday disappointments are all set against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale -- and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors. * Washington Post ** Boston Globe *** "Maus is a book that cannot be put down, truly, even to sleep. When two of the mice speak of love, you are moved, when they suffer, you weep. Slowly through this little tale comprised of suffering, humor and life's daily trials, you are captivated by the language of an old Eastern European family, and drawn into the gentle and mesmerizing rhythm, and when you finish Maus, you are unhappy to have left that magical world and long for the sequel that will return you to it." - Umberto Eco Art Spiegelman is co-founder/editor of _Raw_, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics. His work has been published in the _New York Times_, _Playboy_, the _Village Voice_ and many other periodicals, and his drawings have been exhibited in museums and galleries here and abroad. Honors he has received for _Maus_ include a Guggenheim fellowship and nomination for the National Books Critics Circle Award. Mr. Spiegelman lives in New York City with his wife, Françoise Mouly and their daughter, Nadja.

Anne Applebaum - Iron ​Curtain
_In ​the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway._ At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically different countries to Communism, a completely new political and moral system. In _Iron Curtain,_ Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Applebaum describes how the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete. She draws on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts translated for the first time to portray in devastating detail the dilemmas faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. Today the Soviet Bloc is a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality, and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in the electrifying pages of _Iron Curtain_.

Jack Higgins - A ​Game for Heroes
The ​excellent "A Game for Heroes" is one of those and it's aptly titled because heroes and heroics fill the novel. But the tale really revolves around one and his name is Owen Morgan. And how can you not love this British Ops Specialist, with his scarred face, wearing a patch to cover his lost eye, the deadly tricks he does with his spring-loaded knife, and the numerous dangerous missions found in his dossier. The story takes place during the last days of WWII. After recuperating from his last crippling mission, Colonel Morgan's next assignment is on his home island of St. Pierre in the English Channel. The Germans have occupied the island for five years and are determined to fight until the end regardless of the outcome of the war. Morgan's mission is check out the rumor of a secret sub base on the island that has been causing havoc to the Allies' shipping lanes. Also added to the mission is a commando raiding party lead by an upper-class American Major. This elite group will be planting bombs under ships in the harbor. Things go wrong and capture follows. And then the story turns into a chess play between just about everyone on the isle of St. Pierre, and with Owen Morgan smack in the middle of it all.

István Gombás - Hungary
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

Lilian Harry - Under ​the Apple Tree
When ​the Luftwaffe unleashes its full fury on the city in the first of three major blitzes, the Taylor family are bombed out. Judy finds her job relocated to a hotel in Southsea, and home is now a small terraced house in April Grove. And then there is the news she has been dreading—her sailor fiance has been killed. Judy and her young, recently widowed aunt Polly decide to turn their grief to good account, and join the WVS, running canteens, accompanying evacuee children, and helping the families of servicemen, often in the face of danger from air raids, flying bombs, and V2 rockets. Gradually, Judy and Polly find their own healing as they take part not only in their war work but in the life of April Grove, and although both are at first convinced they will never know love again, they both find it in the least likely manner.

Ismeretlen szerző - Hungary
Minden ​fontos tényt és adatot megtudhatjuk országunkról. Az ország és népe, történelem, felépítés, gazdaság, társadalom, külpolitika, oktatás és tudomány, kultúra és művészet, turizmus, sport, vallás.

Ben Macintyre - Agent ​Zigzag
One ​December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5's Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters was knowing who he was. Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double agent.

Sven Hassel - SS ​General
The ​great Stalingrad novel--written by a German survivor. Sven Hassell and his diminishing band of veterans find themselves plunged into the maelstrom of Stalingrad. Radio Moscow boasts that one German soldier dies every minute as they struggle forward on the front, and when the Russians surround the German 6th Army, it seems they're doomed. But Sven and his friends make a last-ditch attempt to break out, to fight their way across the frozen steppe to freedom. Their leader: a fanatical SS general.

Graham Pitchfork - Shot ​Down and on the Run
Many ​POW escape stories are well known, but what about those who miraculously evaded capture in the first place and returned to fight another day? This book tells some of the stories of the thousands of shot-down Commonwealth airmen who got out from behind enemy lines during World War II.

Andrea Illés - World ​Heritage Sites in Hungary
Minden ​országnak, minden népnek vannak olyan természeti szépségei, varázslatos tájai, ódon műemlékei, amelyekre büszke. Így vagyunk ezzel mi, magyarok is. Külön öröm, hogy megóvásra érdemes természeti, kulturális értékeinket az UNESCO Világörökség Bizottsága is annak ítélte. Így került fel 1987-ben elsőként a világörökségi listára Budapest Duna-parti panorámája és a Várnegyed, valamint Hollókő, legutóbb pedig 2002 nyarán a budapesti Andrássy út és Tokaj-Hegyalja történelmi borvidéke. A közbeeső tizenöt évben még öt magyarországi helyszínt tüntettek ki a világörökség része címmel. Hazánk jelenleg nyolc világörökségi helyszínnel büszkélkedhet. Ezek között találunk természeti és kulturális értékeket, kultúrtájként felvételt nyerteket, de van "vegyes" kategóriában kitüntetett emlékünk is. A magyarországi világörökségeket - kulturális emlékeket, tájakat, természeti kincseket - ismerteti a fotókkal gazdagon illusztrált kötet. A gazdag képanyag javát neves fotósok kifejezetten e könyv számára készítették. A könyv érdekessége, hogy nemcsak a világörökségi helyszíneket, hanem a jelenleg még "csak" várományosi listán lévő "jelölteket" is bemutatja. Néhol regényesebben, máshol meg éppen "szakszerűbben" tárul fel kulturális örökségeink múltja, érdekességei, természeti kincseink kialakulásának titkai, védettségük okai.

Adam Makos - Larry Alexander - A ​Higher Call
Four ​days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber’s tail—a German Messerschmitt fighter. Worse, the German pilot was an ace, a man able to destroy the American bomber in the squeeze of a trigger. What happened next would defy imagination and later be called the most incredible encounter between enemies in World War II. This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day—the American—2nd Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17—and the German—2nd Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II. A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franz’s harrowing missions. Charlie would face takeoffs in English fog over the flaming wreckage of his buddies’ planes, flak bursts so close they would light his cockpit, and packs of enemy fighters that would circle his plane like sharks. Franz would face sandstorms in the desert, a crash alone at sea, and the spectacle of 1,000 bombers each with eleven guns, waiting for his attack. Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American 8th Air Force would later classify as “top secret.” It was an act that Franz could never mention or else face a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever.

Etty Hillesum - An ​Interrupted Life / Letters from Westerbork
For ​the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy, and almost impossible gallantry were themselves a form of inner resistance. The adult counterpart to Anne Frank, Hillesum testifies to the possibility of awareness and compassion in the face of the most devastating challenge to one's humanity. She died at Auschwitz in 1943 at the age of twenty-nine.

Kelemen L. Gábor - Tours ​Through Hungary
A ​színes, angol nyelvű könyv a Magyarország területén található nyaraló, pihenő, kiránduló helyeket mutatja be részletes információkkal és gazdag képanyaggal.

Douglas Charing - Judaism
Discover ​the history, faith, and culture that have shaped the modern Jewish world. With over 50 million copies sold in 88 countries and in 36 languages, Eyewitness Books are truly the ultimate visual information encyclopedias for the 21st Century. Carrying on the tradition of integrating words and pictures, these three new titles in the Eyewitness series are timely editions to any library.

Roxane Assaf - Michael Kohn - Miriam Raphael - Lonely ​Planet Israel & the Palestinian Territories
Six ​authors, 234 days of research, 12 army roadblocks, countless felafels. Includes history and environment chapters by renowned experts, plus detailed coverage of the West Bank and Gaza.

Dick Winters - Beyond ​Band of Brothers
They ​were called Easy Company—but their mission was never easy. Immortalized as the Band of Brothers, they suffered 150% casualties while liberating Europe—an unparalleled record of bravery under fire. Dick Winters was their commander—"the best combat leader in World War II" to his men. This is his story—told in his own words for the first time. On D-Day, Dick Winters parachuted into France and assumed leadership of the Band of Brothers when their commander was killed. He led them through the Battle of the Bulge and into Germany, by which time each member had been wounded. They liberated an S.S. death camp from the horrors of the Holocaust and captured Berchtesgaden, Hitler's alpine retreat. After briefly serving during the Korean War, Winters was a highly successful businessman. Made famous by Stephen Ambrose's book Band of Brothers—and the subsequent award-winning HBO miniseries—he is the object of worldwide adulation. Beyond Band of Brothers is Winters's memoir—based on his wartime diary—but it also includes his comrades' untold stories. Virtually all this material is being released for the first time. Only Winters was present from the activation of Easy Company until the war's end. Winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, only he could pen this moving tribute to the human spirit.

Sallai János - Egy ​idejét múlt korszak lenyomata / Abdruck einer versunkenen Epoche / An impression of a bygone era
Ehhez a könyvhöz nincs fülszöveg, de ettől függetlenül még rukkolható/happolható.

Ismeretlen szerző - Archaeology ​and Settlement History in the Hahót Basin, South-West Hungary - From the Neolithic to the Roman Age
Archaeology ​and Settlement History in the Hahót Basin SW-Hungary. From the Neolithic to the Roman Age. Béla Miklós Szőke: Borderland of cultures. Settiement history research in the Hahót Basin (Aims, methods, results) Natural environment History of research Techniques and procedures The result References Eszter Bánffy: Neolithic and Copper Age settlements at Hahót and Zalaszentbalázs (Zalaszentbalázs-Pusztatető, Hahót-Szartóri 1-11) Zaaszentba ázs-Pu sztatető Gesesziget „B” Hahót-Szartori I-II Mária Bondár: The settiement of the Lengyel culture at Zalaszentbalázs 1. The site 2. The finds 2.1. Pottery 2.2. Other clay finds 2.3. Altars 2.4. Idais 3. Evaluation 4. Catalogue of settiement features References Eter Bántfy: Early Chalcolithic settlement at Zalaszentbalázs-Szőlőhegyi mező 1. The settiement 1.1. Description of settiement features 1.2. Stratigraphy 1.3. Types of finds Pottery types Li. Pottery techiques 2. Decoration 3. Statistical analysis of pottery fragments Vessel types 2.4.1. bowls 2.4.2. pots 2.4.3. S-profiled, vase-shaped vessels 2.4.4. mugs 2.4.5. vesseis with tubular support 2.4.6. jugs 2.4.7. smafl-sized vesseis 2.4.8. special ‘household” wares 2.4.9. special purpose pottery c-ceramic misceflaneous objects 6 Appendix: Analyses ot non ceramic and early chalcolithic settiement finds:. Lívia Bondor: Raw materials ot grinding stones and polished stone material Ede Hertelendi: l4Carbon dating ot Zalaszentbalazs-Szőlőhegyi mező 1992- 93 Katalin T. Bíró: Raw material analysís ot the lithic materials ot the Microregional Survey Project ot the Archaeological Institute ot the HAS Erzsébet Bácskay: Chipped stone imp)ements found at the sites ot Hahót-Szartóri I-II. Zalaszentbalazs-Pusztatető and Zalaszentbalázs-Szőlőhegyi mező. Ferenc Gyulai: The plant and food remains trom the Copper Age settiement et Zalaszentbalázs-Szőlőhegyi mező 1. Introduction 2. Analythical technique 3. The results 3.1 Carpological analysis 3.2. The investigation of food remains 4. Conciusion 4.1. The prep.aration ot food 4.2. The importance ot porridges and gruels Eszter Bántfy: South-West Transdanubia as a mediating area. On the cultural history ot the Early and Middle Chalcolithic 1. lntroduction 2. The beginning of the Chalcolithic in Transdanubia 3. The latest (Ilib) phase ot the Lengyel culture in Transdanubia 3.1. settlements 3,2. pottery 3.2.1. traditional Lengyel ware 3.2.2. new forms 3.3. way ot life 3.4. burials 3.5. finds indicative ot cultic practices 4. End ot the latest phase of the Lengyel culture in South Western Transdanubia, and its associations with the Balaton-Lasinja culture 5. Problems ot the transition from the Early rid Middle Chalcolithic in the neighbouring areas 5.1. Northern Transdanubia 5.2. South Eastern Transdanubia 5.3. South-West Siovakia 5.4. Eastern Austria 5.5. Moravia 5.6. Croatia. Slovenia 5.7. Eastern Hungary 5.8. Lower Danube region, Central Balkans 6. Problems ot absolute chronology 7. Conclusions References Mária Bondár: Early Bronze Age settlement patterns in South-West Transdanubia 1. lntroduction 2. Börzönce-Temetői dűlő The site and its excavation 3. The finds Pottery 200 stone materjal Analogies 210 yi mező 1992- 3.2. Mould 214 105 3.3. Animal figurines 216 3.4. Wagon model 216 Microregional 3.5. ldols 218 IAS g 4. The Somogyvár-Vinkovci culture: history of research 220 5. Evaluation 226 ót-Szartóri i..jj, 6. Catalogue 239 lohegyi mező. 119 Settlement features 239 Appendix: Sites of the Somogyvár-Vinkovci culture 250 it at Zalasze. References 254 145 iis Ferenc Redő: Roman villa at Alsóralk-Kastelydomb 1987-1993 269 147 1. The site 269 148 2. Topography 148 2.1. Stone buildings 270 150 2.1.1. Building A 271 isa 2.1.2. Building B 2732.1.3 Bullding C 281 152 2.2. Buildings with timber foundation and earth floor 288 2.2.1. The ‘protovilla’ 288 iltural history 2.2.2. Metal melting oven 290 157 2.2.3. Baker’s oven 291 157 Stratigraphy 292 160 Periodisation, chronology 294 163 Type of the villa 2976 Summary 167 Appendix: Coins 301 167 References 303 168 169 László Bartosiewicz: Archeozoological studies f rom the Hahót basin, SW Hungary 307 169 The prehistoric sites of Zalaszentbalázs-Szőlőhegyi mező and Börzönce-Temetői dűlő 308 170 1. lI1tWdLiCtOI1 308 anubia, and 2. Site locations and dating 309 171 3. Results 311 eighbour,ng 3.1. Taphonomic aspects 311 174 3.2. Quantification 312 174 3.3. Species descriptions 313 174 4. Discussion 315 175 The Bronze Age and medieval settlement remains from Hahót-Telekszeg 320 176 1. Material and methods 320 177 2. Preservation and sampie sizes 321 178 3. Chronological characteristics 322 180 3.1. Late Bronze Age 323 181 3.2. Period of the Arpád Dynasty 323 182 3.3. Late Middle Ages 32418 4. Faunal arialysis 325 187 4.1. Cattie (Bos taurus L. 1758) 325 4.2. Pig (Sus domesticus ErxL. 1777) 330 4.3. Sheep (Ovis aries L. 1758) and goat (Capra hircus L. 1758) 330 4.4. Horse (Equus caballus L. 1758) 331 4.5. Domestic hen (Gallus domesticus L. 1758) and goose (Anser sp..) 333 4.6. Dog (Canis familiaris L. 1758) 334