Eastern Europe - General
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Serbs and Albanians
$29.00 Add to cartReleased for the first time in the English language, and marking the centennial of Albania’s independence, Serbs and Albanians delivers an at once refreshing and comprehensive insight into the cultura… [more below]
- Author: Sufflay, Milan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 098871292X
- Language: English
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From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
$58.33 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm.- Author: Connelly, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0691167125
- Language: English
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
$18.99 Add to cartPart history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris
- Author: Eksteins, Modris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 31 2007
- ISBN10: 061808231X
- Language: English
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War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
$20.99 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced young journalists” (The New York Times)–the first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppres- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1668013738
- Language: English
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Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
$25.99 Add to cartA work of dazzling beauty…the rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing. —The New York Times Book Review
Since the Turks first shattere- Author: Goodwin, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312420668
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Romania
$32.00 Add to cartSpanning a period of 2000 years from the Roman conquest of Dacia to the present day, A Concise History of Romania traces the development of a unique nation situated on the border between East and West… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Hitchins, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0521694132
- Language: English
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A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival: Second Edition
$24.99 Add to cartThis classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. While paying tribute to Slovakia’s resilience and strug
- Author: Kirschbaum, Stanislav J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 04 2005
- ISBN10: 1403969299
- Language: English
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Poland: A History
$29.95 Read moreAs Adam Zamoyski set out to update The Polish Way, his bestselling first history of Poland, he realized the task required not so much re-writing as re-thinking the known facts well as the assumptions … [more below]
- Author: Zamoyski, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0781813018
- Language: English
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From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
$27.95 Add to cartA sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm.- Author: Connelly, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0691208956
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Poland
$35.00 Add to cartPoland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Lukowski, Jerzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: January 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1108440126
- Language: English
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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (New Edition)
$23.00 Read moreFrom the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genoc
- Author: Kaplan, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312424930
- Language: English
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Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape
$46.67 Add to cartNadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first
- Author: Olaru, Stejarel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 06 2023
- ISBN10: 135032129X
- Language: English
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
$22.00 Add to cartNational Book Award Finalist
TIME Magazine’s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012
Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain De… [more below]- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 140009593X
- Language: English
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History of Eastern Europe: A Captivating Guide to a Shortened History of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia
$32.99 Add to cartHow much Eastern European history do you know?
The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and fall of states and empires. The ancient Greek and Roma
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: October 31 2021
- ISBN10: 163716503X
- Language: English
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Ukraine at War: Street Art, Posters + Poetry
$40.00 Read moreA unique book that showcases how Ukrainian society is expressing itself through art.
War came to Ukraine in February 2022; it was uninvited–although not entirely unexpected given Russia’s steady, mas- Author: Sarhandi-Williams, Daoud
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717264
- Language: English
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Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus’ Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption
$24.99 Add to cartIn 1987, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ranking defector ever from the Eastern bloc, published RED HORIZONS, his expose of the unchecked power and corruption of Nicolae Ceausecu, then the Roma… [more below]
- Series: Cold War Classics
- Author: Pacepa, Ion Mihai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0895267462
- Language: English
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
$32.00 Add to cart“Rebecca West’s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time.” —The New Yorker
Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West’s classic examination of the history, people, and politics … [more below]- Author: West, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1232
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 014310490X
- Language: English
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Poland: The First Thousand Years
$32.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: September 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0875807569
- Language: English
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How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
$18.99 Add to cart“She is a writer and journalist whose voice belongs to the world.” — Gloria Steinem
This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and fe
- Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0060975407
- Language: English
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A Ukrainian Christmas
$26.99 Read more‘History, stories, recipes and beautiful illustrations’ – OLINA HERCULES
‘Christmas brings the indestructibility of hope in times of the greatest hopelessness. As long as we celebrate this holiday, w- Author: Hrytsak, Yaroslav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1408728419
- Language: English
