{ "item_title" : "The History of Budapest", "item_author" : [" Auke", "Yahia Fathy", "Skriuwer Com "], "item_description" : "Forget pretty postcards of the Danube. Budapest wasn't born. It was forged from three war-torn towns, Buda, Pest, and Obuda, that merged into a rebel city that defied empires. Beneath the thermal baths lie Ottoman torture chambers, and behind the elegant coffee houses, revolutions were brewed in secret.This book traces Budapest's full history from its earliest roots to the unified capital that outlasted the Habsburg Empire. Roman soldiers freezing at Aquincum, where thermal springs first steamed two thousand years ago. Ottoman pashas converting churches to mosques while Jews, Christians, and Muslims traded together in the shadows. The blood-soaked siege of 1686 that shattered Ottoman rule. The 1848 revolutionaries printing manifestos in cellars while Habsburg cannons fired overhead. The Chain Bridge, built at a human cost that's rarely discussed, finally connecting Buda and Pest. And the dirty deals that funded unification, where nobles sold streets to finance Parliament's golden dome. Each chapter connects the grand events to the people who actually lived them.What's inside: Roman and Celtic origins: Aquincum's fort, the thermal springs that first drew settlers, and the ancient foundations still hidden beneath modern cafesOttoman Budapest: 150 years of occupation, converted churches, the coexistence of faiths in the markets, and the brutal 1686 siege that ended it allHabsburg rule and rebellion: the 1848 revolution, manifestos printed in cellars under cannon fire, and how imperial elegance was built on peasant starvationThe Chain Bridge and unification: the Jewish merchants who helped fund it, the workers who paid with their lives, and the political maneuvering that merged three towns into one capitalForgotten heroes: Ottoman engineers grafting baths onto Celtic springs, women smuggling rifles under petticoats, and the nobles plotting in thermal baths while the city transformed around themReader review: My ancestors survived the 1686 siege, and this is the first book that told that story honestly. The chapters on Habsburg brutality and the siege survival tactics left me shaking. It doesn't romanticize Budapest's scars, it explains how they got there. I use it on my tours now and visitors are stunned by what they didn't know. Laszlo V.The Budapest tourists see is beautiful. The Budapest in this book is real. From Celtic tribes and Roman sewers to rebel engineers and revolutionary coffee houses, this is the story of a city that turned betrayal, steam, and defiance into something extraordinary.Order your copy today.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/831/371/9798313714738_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.99", "online_price" : "12.99", "our_price" : "12.99", "club_price" : "12.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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