Coffee, cake and culture - welcome to Austria. Whether you want to hike in the alps, visit remarkably well-preserved medieval towns or simply indulge in Vienna's decadent cafe culture, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Austria has to offer.

"In 1936, the Nazis are little more than loud, brutish bores to fifteen-year old Stephan Neuman, the son of a wealthy and influential Jewish family and budding playwright whose playground extends from Vienna's streets to its intricate underground tunnels. Stephan's best friend and companion is the brilliant Žofie-Helene, a Christian girl whose mother edits a progressive, anti-Nazi newspaper. But the two adolescents' carefree innocence is shattered...

The Hotel New Hampshire follows the Berry family across two continents and through three hotels. Family members attract friends who substitute lust, violence, laughter and tears for the standard bourgeois components.

"A mother recounts her life story to her long-lost daughter in this sweeping historical novel about a community torn between Italian Fascism and German Nazism. In the small village of Curon in South Tyrol, seventeen-year-old Trina longs for a different life. She dedicates herself to becoming a teacher, but the year that she qualifies-1923-Mussolini's regime abolishes the use of German as a teaching language in the annexed Austrian territory. Defying...

A little boy is on a search for the perfect gift for his mother, navigating the streets of 1890s Vienna, meeting new people, and continuing to trade one gift for another.

When a young American and a French beauty meet on the Eurail, he convinces her to spend time with him before he has to go back to the U.S. in the morning.

Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade Nazi persecution despite her Jewish heritage. But Hedy is also intelligent. At lavish Vienna dinner parties, she overhears the Third Reich's plans. One night in 1937, desperate to escape her controlling husband and the rise of the Nazis, she disguises herself and flees her husband's castle. She lands...

"Born into one of Europe's more powerful families, Archduchess Marie Valerie in 1890 wed her cousin, Franz Salvator of Tuscany. The Archduke had an affair with Stephanie Richter, which lead to an illegitimate child, a royal title of her own and a career as a double-agent in the prelude to World War II"--

As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children.

Visiting an Austrian ski resort is the first step in Hope Harcourt's plan to take back her family's luxury empire. Having the infuriatingly gorgeous security magnate Luca Calvino follow her every move isn't! Especially when their relationship begins to cross a line.