 | A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (New York Review Books Classics) by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.89 The first volume of Patrick Leigh Fermor's travels across Europe in 1933, on the eve of Hitler's rise to power. From London through Holland and a wintry Germmany and Austria to a captivating visit in Prague. Fascinating!
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 | Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates (New York Review Books Classics) by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $6.75 The second half of the 1933 trek across Europe. Through Hungary, Transylvania, Romania, to Bulgaria.
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 | Prague: A Novel by Arthur Phillips
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.01 Not about Prague. About Budapest. Fantastic.
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 | Budapest: A Novel by Chico Buarque
Buy used from: $0.01 Read in a kinai bufe.
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 | The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War (Penguin Classics) by Jaroslav Hasek
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.71 A hilarious and often insightful story of WWI from a Czech point of view. Svejk really doesn't see the point of fighting for the Austrians against his arguably fraternal Slavs, the Russians. In the end, he probably serves his emperor about as well as his emperor ever served him. There is now a term called Svejkism, in which you genially annoy and obfuscate your enemies.
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 | Let's Go Eastern Europe On A Budget 12th Edition (Let's Go Eastern Europe) by Let's Go Inc.
Buy used from: $0.01 |
 | The Rough Guide to Hungary 6 (Rough Guide Travel Guides) by Norm Longley
Buy new: $15.59 / Used from: $3.79 |
 | Hungarian Verbs And Essentials of Grammar by Miklos Torkenczy
Buy used from: $6.00 The best grammar guide to Hungarian I've found yet; the concepts are well-organized and understandable. Paired with a good dictionary, it makes the language possible.
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 | English-Hungarian Dictionary by Z. Kiss
Buy used from: $60.81 The very best Hungarian-English dictionary available on amazon.com! Stay away from the Hippocrene Press dictionaries (there are 3), as they are totally useless, not even foreign-language dictionaries in the conventional sense.
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 | Hungarian-English Dictionary by Z. Kiss et al
Buy used from: $54.00 To match the other dictionary. Unfortunate that they are in separate volumes, but still the best Hungarian dictionary on the market. Again, miles above the Hippocrenes.
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 | The Rough Guide to Hungarian Dictionary Phrasebook: A Rough Guide Phrasebook, First Edition (Rough Guide Phrasebooks) by Lexus
Buy used from: $1.32 Unfortunate that they discontinued this particular title, because it has a great phrasebook as well as a wealth of information about customs, foods, holidays, and Hungary in general. Worth the money to get a used copy.
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 | Hungarian: Lonely Planet Phrasebook by Christina Mayer
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.68 Second to the Rough Guide phrasebook, this is a well-done phrasebook. You will probably never have a chance to use the "social scene" section. Sajnos.
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 | Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture by John Lukacs
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $3.79 |
 | A Concise History of Hungary (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Miklós Molnár
Buy new: $26.09 / Used from: $17.00 A great narrative of the entire history, although dry at points.
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 | The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat by Paul Lendvai
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $15.67 |
 | The First Domino: International Decision Making During the Hungarian Crisis of 1956 (Eastern European Studies, No. 26) by Johanna C. Granville
Buy new: $49.95 / Used from: $24.95 A well-laid out history of the 1956 Uprising, which is a must-know topic for Budapest.
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 | The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents (National Security Archive Cold War Readers)
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $19.95 For a really in-depth account of the decision-making and everything that went on for all sides of the revolution. Not dull at all, if that is the impression of "A History in Documents."
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 | Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising by Erich Lessing
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $28.90 Amazing photographs.
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 | Western Dream by Bob Sinclar
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $1.49 You'll need to get used to Bob Sinclair.
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 | Gypsy Life On the Road by Ando Drom
Buy used from: $131.03 Gypsy music, including the Gypsy hymn. (Cigany himnusz).
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 | Kontroll
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.80 Shot entirely on the Budapest subways. Awesome.
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 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $19.49 / Used from: $19.89 Although not Hungarian, this was the story that finally got it through to me how terrible it could be to live under the oppression of the communist regimes. Ridiculous cruelty. Beautiful story.
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 | Hukkle
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 | Fateless
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.99 Very melodramatic, but the basic Holocaust story from Budapest.
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 | Gloomy Sunday
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $11.41 I think this movie is stupid, but my girlfriend disagrees.
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