Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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Notes from the Underground
$5.00 Add to cartIn 1864, just prior to the years in which he wrote his greatest novels — Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) penned the darkly … [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 21 1992
- ISBN10: 048627053X
- Language: English
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Elegant Hungarian Tortes and Homestyle Desserts for American Bakers: Volume 6
$29.95 Add to cartWhen Ella Szab? fled her homeland during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, she never dreamed that someday she would become a member of the US Olympic swimming team, an accomplished baker in America, a… [more below]
- Series: Great American Cooking
- Author: Szabo, Ella Kovacs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1574419145
- Language: English
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Poland
$24.99 Read moreHistoric cities and ancient castles, diverse landscapes and traditional food – Poland is a country that demands exploration.
Whether you want to wander around fairy-tale Krak?, spy rare bison in Bia_x- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0241473993
- Language: English
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Medieval Europe
$20.00 Add to cartA spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages
The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and t- Author: Wickham, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0300228821
- Language: English
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Secrets in the Cellar: A True Story of the Austrian Incest Case That Shocked the World
$10.99 Add to cartJosef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their family–though one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been “l
- Author: Glatt, John
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0312947860
- Language: English
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The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volumes II & III: They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided; Introduction by Patrick Thursfield
$32.00 Add to cart**Washington Post Best Books of 2013**
The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War… [more below]- Series: Everyman’s Library
- Author: Banffy, Miklos
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 856
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0375712305
- Language: English
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Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
$19.95 Read moreA Financial Times Best Book of the Year
“The achievement of a lifetime.”
Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Award
Winner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize
–Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin “Naim- Author: Naimark, Norman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292154
- Language: English
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Blood, Dust and Snow: Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front, 1938-1943
$37.95 Read more‘The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our infantry came past him! That’s an old classic, p… [more below]
- Author: Schäfer, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1784388300
- Language: English
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Minarets in the Mountains: A Journey Into Muslim Europe
$16.99 Read moreA magical, eye-opening account of a journey into a Europe that rarely makes the news and is in danger of being erased altogether. Another Europe. A Europe few people believe exists and many wish didn’… [more below]
- Author: Hussain, Tharik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1784778281
- Language: English
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Under Western Eyes
$11.95 Add to cartUnder Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such as the defensibility of terrori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552371
- Language: English
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To End a War: The Conflict in Yugoslavia–America’s Inside Story–Negotiating with Milosevic
$20.00 Read moreWhen President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America’s chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Author: Holbrooke, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0375753605
- Language: English
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Warsaw Requiem
$15.99 Read moreOpening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central … [more below]
- Series: Zion Covenant #6
- Author: Thoene, Bodie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 141430112X
- 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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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
$30.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the mercurial Soviet leader who succeeded and denounced Stalin. Nikita Khrushchev was one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Rule… [more below]
- Author: Taubman, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 871
- Publish Date: April 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393324842
- Language: English
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The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
$15.99 Read moreSibert Honor Medalist ∙ New York Public Library Best of 2018 ∙ The Horn Book Fanfare 2018 ∙ Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2018 ∙ YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Winner
In the tra- Author: Brown, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0358452147
- Language: English
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Thank You for Not Reading
$15.95 Add to cartThank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promo… [more below]
- Author: Ugresic, Dubravka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1948830450
- Language: English
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Kristin Lavransdatter, II: The Wife
$17.00 Add to cart“[Sigrid Undset] should be the next Elena Ferrante.” —Slate
Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create
A Penguin Classic- Series: Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy
- Author: Undset, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0141181281
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine: Volume 1: Armed Formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic, 2014-2022
$29.95 Read more“These volumes have provided greater clarity about the war, since the media’s reporting on the war has been, by necessity, lacking in important details. If one is interested in the background to the w… [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Crowther, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 191507066X
- Language: English
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The Dacians and Getae at War: 4th Century Bc- 2nd Century AD
$20.00 Read moreThis intriguing book describes the Romans’ formidably warlike enemies in modern Romania and Bulgaria – their ‘most illustrated’ opponents, thanks to friezes on Trajan’s Column and carvings on Trajan’s
- Series: Men-At-Arms (Osprey)
- Author: Pogacias, Andrei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854535
- Language: English
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The Great Escape
$17.99 Add to cartThey were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored
- Author: Brickhill, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325792
- Language: English
