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The London-Budapest Game

Author : Catherine Eva Schandl
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1430311789
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The London-Budapest Game written by Catherine Eva Schandl and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The London-Budapest Game' is the true sequel to 'Sword of the Turul, ' with a unique glimpse into the British underground in World War II Hungary - and its aftermath. From 1991 to 2001, a Swedish-Russian joint Commission investigating the fate of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg discovered that 3 Hungarian numbered prisoners secretly held in Vladimir prison, Soviet Union had been connected to his case. One was Karoly Schandl, a young lawyer in Budapest who lived near the Swedish Embassy. This is the continuation of his shocking true story, supported by historical documents and excerpts from his private writings. Karoly's anti- Nazi resistance group was led by his childhood friend, Gabor Haraszty, a.k.a. British agent ALBERT. The group had links to MI9, ISLD (MI6), SOE, Colonel Howie, the Dutch and Polish Underground, the Tito partisans, and a group of famous Jewish parachutists from Palestine, with whom they had planned to collaborate in Hungary. It was a dangerous game, and only a few would survive ..

The Flight

Author : Tyler Bridges
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807175862
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Flight written by Tyler Bridges and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both history and memoir, The Flight tells the story of Richard W. “Dick” Bridges’s heroic service in World War II. Bridges survived a German attack on his plane, the Fascinatin’ Witch, by parachuting out of the exploding B-24. He escaped detection in Austria, became the first American prisoner of war in Hungary, was sent to Yugoslavia, escaped from his POW camp there, was sheltered by the Partisans one step ahead of the Germans, and was finally airlifted to safety in Italy by the British. Bridges’s story, which seems almost too astonishing to be true, went untold until after his death in 2003, when his son, Tyler Bridges, pieced it together. The younger Bridges’s odyssey in search of his father’s wartime experiences connected him with the families of other crew members aboard the Fascinatin’ Witch and led him to retrace his father’s footsteps through Austria, Hungary, and the former Yugoslavia. With his findings, Bridges has woven a story not only about World War II and the bravery of this unique group of soldiers, but also about fathers and sons, what can get lost in the gulf between generations, and how patience and understanding can bridge that gap.

Through Hitler's Back Door

Author : Alan Ogden
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844685861
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Through Hitler's Back Door written by Alan Ogden and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia were all German allies in the Second World War, unlike the other countries of Europe which had either been forcibly occupied by the Nazis or remained neutral. SOE Missions mounted within their borders were thus doubly hazardous for they were conducted in enemy-populated territory, heavily policed by military forces and gendarmerie. Furthermore all these states had well developed and experienced security services, usually supplemented by Gestapo and Abwehr units. A further complication to the activities of SOE in these countries was that they had all been effectively conceded by Western Allies to Russia; not surprisingly therefore, operations in the Soviet sphere of influence were to prove diabolically difficult.This is a story about the courage of individuals in the face of overwhelming odds. Hunger, ill-health, exhaustion, cold and treachery all combined to make life for those members of SOE who parachuted into these Fascist outposts of Fortress Europe as insufferable as it was dangerous. For weeks on end, the SOE missions moved continually at night, chased by enemy troops, betrayed by local villagers, awaiting air drops that never came and listening out for orders that were rarely specific. Thus the picture that emerges of SOE activities in these countries is one of heroic proportions, with courage, dedication and daring displayed by every mission.Although nearly all SOE personnel were either killed or captured, the impact of their clandestine operations served as a persistent irritant, continuously undermining Germanys strategic and political assumptions about the loyalty of her allies.

Pay Up and Play the Game

Author : Wray Vamplew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521892308
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Pay Up and Play the Game written by Wray Vamplew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 book presents an analysis of the emergence of mass spectator sport during the years prior to World War I.

The Immortal Game

Author : David Shenk
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307387666
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Immortal Game written by David Shenk and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, engaging look at how 32 carved pieces on a Chess board forever changed our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain. Chess is the most enduring and universal game in history. Here, bestselling author David Shenk chronicles its intriguing saga, from ancient Persia to medieval Europe to the dens of Benjamin Franklin and Norman Schwarzkopf. Along the way, he examines a single legendary game that took place in London in 1851 between two masters of the time, and relays his own attempts to become as skilled as his Polish ancestor Samuel Rosenthal, a nineteenth-century champion. With its blend of cultural history and Shenk’s lively personal narrative, The Immortal Game is a compelling guide for novices and aficionados alike.

Hungary as a Sport Superpower

Author : Lorenzo Venuti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111137414
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Hungary as a Sport Superpower written by Lorenzo Venuti and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role has football (and sport in general) played in Hungarian foreign policy? Was there a continuity between the inter-war period and communism? Are foreign politics and sporting diplomacy synonyms? This book tries to provide answers to these questions through a careful examination of documents of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry and Hungarian newspapers, supplemented by documentation from several European countries. Through Hungarian football, the author traces a history of Hungary during the Age of Extremes with a special focus on the period during which sport played a particular role in Hungarian foreign policy: from 1924, the date of the Paris Olympics, the first time the country competed after World War I, to 1960, date of the Olympics of Rome. The result is a study from a particularly original perspective, highlighting, first and foremost, the transnational dimension of Hungarian football.

Olympic Cities

Author : John Gold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317565304
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Olympic Cities written by John Gold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and enlarged third edition builds on the success of its predecessors. The first of its three parts provides overviews of the urban legacy of the four component Olympic festivals: the Summer Games; Winter Games; Cultural Olympiads; and the Paralympics. The second part comprisessystematic surveys of seven key aspects of activity involved in staging the Olympics: finance; place promotion; the creation of Olympic Villages; security; urban regeneration; tourism; and transport. The final part consists of nine chronologically arranged portraits of host cities, from 1936 to 2020, with particular emphasis on the six Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games of the twenty-first century. As controversy over the growing size and expense of the Olympics, with associated issues of accountability and legacy, continues unabated, this book’s incisive and timely assessment of the Games’ development and the complex agendas that host cities attach to the event will be essential reading for a wide audience. This will include not just urban and sports historians, urban geographers, event managers and planners, but also anyone with an interest in the staging of mega-events and concerned with building a better understanding of the relationship between cities, sport and culture.

Cold War Games

Author : Toby C Rider
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252098455
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Games written by Toby C Rider and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-05-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance. Drawing on newly declassified materials and archives, Toby C. Rider chronicles how the U.S. government used the Olympics to promote democracy and its own policy aims during the tense early phase of the Cold War. Rider shows how the government, though constrained by traditions against interference in the Games, eluded detection by cooperating with private groups, including secretly funded émigré organizations bent on liberating their home countries from Soviet control. At the same time, the United States utilized Olympic host cities as launching pads for hyping the American economic and political system. Behind the scenes, meanwhile, the government attempted clandestine manipulation of the International Olympic Committee. Rider also details the campaigns that sent propaganda materials around the globe as the United States mobilized culture in general, and sports in particular, to fight the communist threat. Deeply researched and boldly argued, Cold War Games recovers an essential chapter in Olympic and postwar history.

500 Master Games of Chess

Author : Dr. S. Tartakower
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486138135
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book 500 Master Games of Chess written by Dr. S. Tartakower and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vast collection of great chess games from 1798 through 1938, with much hard-to-find material. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!

Emil Kemeny

Author : John S. Hilbert
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604401
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Emil Kemeny written by John S. Hilbert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emil Kemeny appeared on the American chess scene in 1890, a Hungarian chess player on the Lower East Side who had difficulty with English. Within a decade he was considered one of the country's finest chess players and writers. He dominated chess in both Philadelphia and Chicago, where he lived between 1893 and early 1906. Congenial and modest, Kemeny was appreciated for his chess play and valued for the strong friendships he formed during his years in the United States. A tenacious competitor despite poor health, he fought Showalter for the national title, ran his own chess magazine, and provided detailed coverage of Monte Carlo 1903. His chess career as player and writer is presented in detail. Common databases rarely include more than 35 of his games; this book has 227--sixty or more against Halpern, Hanham, Voigt, Showalter and Pillsbury--most with annotations; 361 diagrams. Forty additional period games, hundreds of source notes, tournament and match records, crosstables, a bibliography, and openings, player, and general indexes complete the work.

The Immortal Games of Capablanca

Author : Fred Reinfeld
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143058
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Immortal Games of Capablanca written by Fred Reinfeld and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superbly annotated treasury contains 113 of the Cuban master's greatest games, including many previously unavailable in book form. Biography of Capablanca, tournament and match record, Index of Openings.

Travel and Tourism in the Age of Overtourism

Author : Claudio Milano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000376427
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Tourism in the Age of Overtourism written by Claudio Milano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, while many scholars have maintained their interest in the classical debate concerning the impacts of tourism, some have attempted new conceptualisations, while others have converged towards critical narratives promoted by a number of social movements, and have become involved in subsequent discussions on ‘overtourism’ and ‘tourismphobia’. The terms 'overtourism' and 'tourismphobia' have their genesis in the rapid unfolding of unsustainable mass tourism practices and the responses that these have generated amongst academics, practitioners, social movements and grassroots organizations concerned with the detrimental use of urban, rural and coastal spaces, among others, for tourism purposes. The renewed interest in the study of the adverse impacts of tourism, as implied in the term 'overtourism', is related to a variety of well-established causes. Travel and Tourism in the Age of Overtourism builds on existing knowledge and makes a theoretical and practical contribution the overtourism debate and the system dynamics underlining it. This collection suggests ways to address this from a tourism and planning perspective. It offers critical reflections on the contemporary evolution of tourism development and the implication of such processes on people, places and spaces. The chapters in this book were originally published as a Special Issue of the journal Tourism Planning & Development.

Eastern Europe since 1945

Author : Geoffrey Swain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137605138
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Eastern Europe since 1945 written by Geoffrey Swain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An established introductory textbook that provides students with an engaging overview of the complex developments in Eastern Europe from the end of the Second World War through to the present. Tracing the origins of the socialist experiment, de-Stalinisation, and the transition from socialism to capitalism, it explores the key events in each nation's recent history. This is an ideal core text for dedicated modules on Eastern European History or Europe since 1945 (including Central Europe and the Balkans) - or a supplementary text for broader modules on Modern European History or European Political History - which may be offered at all levels of an undergraduate history, politics or European studies degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying the recent history of Eastern Europe for the first time as part of a taught postgraduate degree in Modern European history, European politics or European studies. New to this Edition: - A fully revised new edition of an established text, updated throughout to incorporate the latest research - Provides coverage of recent events - Offers increased focus on social and cultural history with greater emphasis on everyday life and experiences in Eastern Europe

The Organisation and Governance of Top Football Across Europe

Author : Hallgeir Gammelsæter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136705333
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Organisation and Governance of Top Football Across Europe written by Hallgeir Gammelsæter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to provide an extensive overview of how football is organized and managed on a European level and in individual European countries, and to account for the evolution of the national, international and transnational management of football over the last decades.

The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1

Author : Steven L. Kent
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307560872
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 1 written by Steven L. Kent and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive behind-the-scenes history of the dawn of video games and their rise into a multibillion-dollar business “For industry insiders and game players alike, this book is a must-have.”—Mark Turmell, designer for Midway Games and creator of NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, and WrestleMania With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade, volume 1 of The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics who played them. Starting in arcades then moving to televisions and handheld devices, the video game invasion has entranced kids and the young at heart for nearly fifty years. And gaming historian Steven L. Kent has been there to record the craze from the very beginning. The Ultimate History: Volume 1 tells the incredible tale of how this backroom novelty transformed into a cultural phenomenon. Through meticulous research and personal interviews with hundreds of industry luminaries, Kent chronicles firsthand accounts of how yesterday’s games like Space Invaders, Centipede, and Pac-Man helped create an arcade culture that defined a generation, and how today’s empires like Sony, Nintendo, and Electronic Arts have galvanized a multibillion-dollar industry and a new generation of games. Inside, you’ll discover • the video game that saved Nintendo from bankruptcy • the serendipitous story of Pac-Man’s design • the misstep that helped topple Atari’s $2-billion-a-year empire • the coin shortage caused by Space Invaders • the fascinating reasons behind the rise, fall, and rebirth of Sega • and much more! Entertaining, addictive, and as mesmerizing as the games it chronicles, this book is a must-have for anyone who’s ever touched a joystick.

Swedish Gold

Author : Catherine Schandl
Publisher : C. Schandl
ISBN 13 : 1257960261
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Swedish Gold written by Catherine Schandl and published by C. Schandl. This book was released on 2011 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Book 3 in the trilogy about MI6 in World War II Budapest."

A Game of Three Halves

Author : Dennis Shaw
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178222341X
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book A Game of Three Halves written by Dennis Shaw and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word ‘unique’ is often wrongly used but, in the case of A Game of THREE Halves, the author’s story is indisputably one of a kind. No other writer has worked on the inside for both Aston Villa and Birmingham City while keeping an eye on local and national footballing affairs for more than seventy years. During that period he met, and sometimes worked with, many of the best-known personalities in world football: from Pele to Cruyyff, Busby to Ferguson, Matthews to Cullis, Wright to Banks, Hill to Coleman, Saunders to Atkinson, Best to Francis, and many more. From war-time football to the present day, across eight decades, football has changed so much that not even the ball, apart from still being spherical, is the same as before. The fight to remove the maximum wage, the initially steady and ultimately explosive growth in pay, the arrival and development of European football, the curse of the hooligan, the introduction of the Premier League. A flavour of these developments can be found in these pages. This is not an anorak’s football history, but a lively collection of real-life anecdotal memories laced with controversial personal comment. The object of the exercise is simply to be a ‘good read’ while hopefully introducing a touch of football and social history. Here can be found such unlikely characters as an armed robber, an exorcist, some terrified sky divers, half a moustache that ‘went missing’, a factual hungover ‘Biggles’ and a shoot-to-kill former iron curtain guard. This is a look at football like no other.