Cultural Region/Central Europe
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Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
$45.00 Add to cart“To resist, therefore. But how, when and where? There were no laws, no guidelines, no precedents to show the way . . .” –Dutch resister Herman Friedhoff
In every country that fell to the Third Reich d
- Author: Kochanski, Halik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091657
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts
$19.99 Add to cartAn award-wining and “outrageously entertaining” true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hu… [more below]
- Author: Rubinstein, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0316010731
- Language: English
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Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West
$32.50 Add to cartA sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities
The West and Islam — the sword and scimitar — have clashed since the m- Author: Ibrahim, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0306825554
- Language: English
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1632
$9.99 Add to cartFREEDOM AND JUSTICE — AMERICAN STYLE
1632 And in northern Germany things couldn’t get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unsc- Series: Ring of Fire
- Author: Flint, Eric
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0671319728
- Language: English
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A Whole Life
$18.00 Add to cartInternational Bestseller
Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award Longlisted for American Literary Translators Association’s Transla
Winner of the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize- Author: Seethaler, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141036
- Language: English
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Europe Central: National Book Award Winner
$25.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
A daring literary masterpiece of historical fiction that weaves together the gripping stories of those caught in the web of authoritarian rule. Through interwoven nar- Author: Vollmann, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036599
- Language: English
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Hungarian Cookbook: Old World Recipes for New World Cooks
$14.95 Add to cartThese enticing Old World Hungarian recipes were brought to America by the author’s grandparents, but they have been updated to accommodate today’s dietary concerns and faster-paced lifestyles. The aut… [more below]
- Author: Fintor, Yolanda Nagy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0781812402
- Language: English
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To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
$19.99 Add to cartA deeply researched international history and “exemplary study” (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great … [more below]
- Author: Zelikow, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1538764687
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
$11.99 Read moreTranslated by H. F. Cary With an introduction by Claire Honess.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epi
- Series: Classics of World Literature
- Author: Alighieri, Dante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1840221666
- Language: English
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
$10.95 Read moreA key work in the German ‘Sturm und Drang’ movement, Johann Goethe’s autobiographical epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is a defining moment in early Romanticism, which has influenced writ
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 01 1989
- ISBN10: 014044503X
- Language: English
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Duino Elegies: A Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Add to cartWho, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic
orders? and even if one of them pressed me
suddenly to his heart: I’d be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginni- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 14 2001
- ISBN10: 0865476071
- Language: English
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Lines of Courage
$8.99 Add to cart- Author: Nielsen, Jennifer A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1338620959
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy
$17.95 Add to cartThis single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante’s Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and ear… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dante Alighieri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535647
- Language: English
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
$21.99 Add to cart“A feat of both scholarship and storytelling” (Wall Street Journal)–the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries.
In The Habsburgs,… [more below]- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1541644514
- Language: English
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Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West
$19.99 Add to cartA sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities
The West and Islam — the sword and scimitar — have clashed since the m- Author: Ibrahim, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0306921421
- Language: English
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I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
$19.00 Add to cartThe emperor Claudius tells of his life during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula and the events that led to his rise to power in a classic novel reconstructing ancient Rome.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 067972477X
- Language: English
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Celestial Harmonies
$20.00 Add to cartThe Esterh zys, one of Europe’s most prominent aristocratic families, are closely linked to the rise and fall of the Hapsburg Empire. Princes, counts, commanders, diplomats, bishops, and patrons of th
- Author: Esterhazy, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 846
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0060501081
- Language: English
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Ignorance
$17.99 Add to cart“Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment … [with] elegance and grace.” — Washington Post Book World
“Nothing short of masterful.” — Newsweek
A brilliant novel set in contem
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0060002107
- Language: English
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Gingerbread Friends
$19.99 Add to cartThis Gingerbread Baby is looking for friends and finds an adventure he’ll never forget.
The Gingerbread Baby is lonely and decides to do something about it. At a bakery, he dances and prances in front
- Author: Brett, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0399251618
- Language: English
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
$25.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize – Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award – One of the New York Times‘ Ten Best Books of the Year
“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enorm- Author: Judt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037757
- Language: English
