Eastern Europe - General
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The Secret Parchment: Five Tibetan Initiation Techniques
$29.95 Add to cartAfter a hall of records was discovered beneath the Romanian Sphinx in 2003, an ancient parchment surfaced in the highest mountains of Tibet. This book tells the story of the detailed political intrigu
- Author: Cinamar, Radu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 09, 2013
- ISBN10: 1937859134
- Language: English
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Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
$32.00 Read moreThe dramatic story of the Jewish Bund–a revolutionary movement from a vanished world–and its radical vision of solidarity in an age of division.
“Molly Crabapple beckons readers through a portal to- Author: Crabapple, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593229452
- Language: English
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Caf? Europa: Life After Communism
$24.00 Add to cart“Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world.” –Gloria Steinem
Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been repla- Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140277722
- Language: English
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Imperium
$20.00 Add to cartThe Polish journalist whose The Soccer War and The Emperor are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in Imperium to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This magisterial b… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Kapuscinski, Ryszard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 08 1995
- ISBN10: 067974780X
- Language: English
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Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
$20.00 Add to cartLogavina Street was a microcosm of Sarajevo, a six-block-long history lesson. For four centuries, it existed as a quiet residential area in a charming city long known for its ethnic and religious tole… [more below]
- Author: Demick, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0812982762
- Language: English
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They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague
$24.00 Add to cart“Who were they? Ordinary people like you or me–or monsters?” asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulic as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed duri… [more below]
- Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035428
- Language: English
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The Balkans: A Short History
$17.00 Add to cartThroughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodox… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296621X
- Language: English
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A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
$20.00 Read moreA Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the refugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essential role in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by the Allies… [more below]
- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 037572625X
- Language: English
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The Last Palace: Europe’s Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
$22.00 Read moreA sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses–and the lives of its occupants
When Norman Eisen m- Author: Eisen, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0451495799
- Language: English
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Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History
$83.25 Read moreA sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy–with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship
Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural hist- Author: Sayer, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 069118545X
- Language: English
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Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe’s Ancient Gods
$34.95 Add to cartT.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from both families, he found it hard to learn very much about
- Author: Kokoszka, T. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1803412852
- Language: English
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Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland
$21.00 Add to cartUkraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia’s … [more below]
- Author: Schlögel, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1789146771
- Language: English
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Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War
$24.95 Read more“Nuanced, melancholy, sophisticated and gratifyingly intimate.”
Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world
-Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism- Author: Ishchenko, Volodymyr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 180429554X
- Language: English
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Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
$20.00 Add to cartIn light of Russia’s aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed, from pre-C… [more below]
- Author: Mikanowski, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1984898094
- Language: English
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Eastern Europe!, 2nd Edition: Everything You Need to Know about the History (and More) of a Region That Shaped Our World and Still Does
$29.95 Add to cart100 ratings (4.6/5) on Amazon for the first edition: The long-awaited new edition of the acclaimed, first-ever comprehensive, informative, and entertaining history of Eastern Europe in English–thorou
- Author: Jankowski, Tomek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 742
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0997316926
- Language: English
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Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
$20.99 Add to cartOne of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on diaries, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoritative account of a l
- Author: Gutman, Israel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0395901308
- Language: English
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The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War
$29.95 Add to cartThe war that broke out in the former Yugoslavia at the end of the twentieth century unleashed unspeakable acts of violence committed against defenseless civilians, including a grizzly mass murder at a… [more below]
- Author: Dzuro, VladimÃr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640121951
- Language: English
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Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order
$41.99 Add to cartOnly Malachi Martin, consummate Vatican insider and intelligence expert, could reveal the untold story behind the Vatican’s role in today’s winner-take-all race against time to establish, maintain, an… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Malachi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: April 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0671747231
- Language: English
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Kosovo: A Short History
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Malcolm, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: June 10 1999
- ISBN10: 0060977752
- Language: English
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Poland: The First Thousand Years
$45.95 Add to cartSince its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern perio
- Author: Dabrowski, Patrice M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 087580487X
- Language: English
