Cultural Region/Balkan
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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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The Cellist of Sarajevo
$18.00 Read moreA spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about war and the endurance of the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity.
In a city under siege, four people whose lives ha- Author: Galloway, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 1594483655
- Language: English
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The Hundred Days
$15.95 Read moreNapoleon, escaped from Elba, pursues his enemies across Europe like a vengeful phoenix. If he can corner the British and Prussians before their Russian and Austrian allies arrive, his genius will lead
- Series: Aubrey-Maturin (Paperback) #19
- Author: O’Brian, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319792
- Language: English
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World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story
$16.99 Read moreCo-written by a New York Times best-selling author, this moving story of a Muslim boy’s exile from war-torn Bosnia to the United States offers a riveting refugee saga.
Kenan loves drawing and- Author: Trebincevic, Kenan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0358439876
- 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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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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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
$35.00 Read moreThis major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541673808
- Language: English
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Bulgarian-English, English-Bulgarian Practical Dictionary
$16.95 Add to cartThis 2-way Bulgarian-English Dictionary includes Cyrillic and Roman scripts. It is Romanized for English speakers, with 8,500 total entries; easy-to-use transliteration for both languages; and a pronu… [more below]
- Series: Hippocrene Practical Dictionary
- Author: Tchomakov, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 323
- Publish Date: June 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0870521454
- Language: English
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Sarajevo Blues
$16.95 Add to cartFrom one of Bosnia’s most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic r
- Author: Mehmedinovic, Semezdin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 087286345X
- Language: English
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The Tiger’s Wife
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – The instant classic debut novel from the author of Inland and The Morningside, hailed as “a thrilling beginning to what will certainly be a g… [more below]
- Author: Obreht, Téa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0385343841
- Language: English
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Serbian/English-English/Serbian Concise Dictionary
$16.95 Add to cartA bilingual Serbian dictionary with over 7,500 entries that is easy to use for travelers and students.
- Series: Hippocrene Concise Dictionary
- Author: Davidovic, Mladen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0781805562
- 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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A Traveller’s History of Croatia
$14.95 Add to cartGeorge Bernard Shaw wrote that on the last day of Creation, “God desired to crown His work,” and so fashioned the Croatian coastline “out of tears, stars, and breath.” Anyone who has glimpsed that lon
- Series: Interlink Traveller’s Histories
- Author: Curtis, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15, 2020
- ISBN10: 1566568080
- Language: English
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The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
$22.00 Add to cartThe astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II–when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia.
“An amazing, riv- Author: Freeman, Gregory A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02, 2008
- ISBN10: 0451224957
- Language: English
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Safe Area Gorazde
$24.99 Add to cartPraised by The New York Times, Brill’s Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically… [more below]
- Author: Sacco, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2002
- ISBN10: 1560974702
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
$24.99 Add to cartA “panoramic and thought-provoking” (The Guardian) history of the Ottoman dynasty, revealing a diverse empire that straddled East and West
The Ottoman Empire has long been d- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1541673794
- Language: English
