Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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War in Ukraine: Volume 3: Armed Formations of the Luhansk 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: 64
- Publish Date: November 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1804512176
- 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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The Tragedy of Patton a Soldier’s Date with Destiny: Could World War II’s Greatest General Have Stopped the Cold War?
$27.99 Read more“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.” — General George S. Patton
It is 75 years since the end of WW II and the strange, mysterious death of General George S. Patton, but as in life, P
- Author: Orlando, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1630061751
- 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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The Little Book: Story Reader for a Free Ukraine
$24.95 Read moreThe Little Book was originally published in 1940 and made a vital contribution to the curriculum for Canadian-Ukrainian children in prairie schools. Besides containing alphabet letters and gorgeous il
- Author: Matwuczuk, Mykola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1990735045
- Language: English
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Devils Arithmetic PB
$8.99 Read more“A triumphantly moving book.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Hannah dreads going to her family’s Passover Seder–she’s tired of hearing her relatives talk about the past. But when she opens the fron- Series: Puffin Modern Classics
- Author: Yolen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140345353
- Language: English
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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
$18.95 Read moreFrom Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan f
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342360
- Language: English
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Night Soldiers
$19.00 Add to cartBulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civi… [more below]
- Author: Furst, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760008
- 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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Croatia: Istria: With Rijeka and the Slovenian Adriatic
$23.99 Read moreThis new, thoroughly updated ninth edition of Bradt’s Tanzania Safari Guide remains the only practical guidebook to the country that reflects tourism’s shift away from backpackers and budget camping s… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Thammy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1784779423
- Language: English
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When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
$28.00 Read moreAn NPR Best Book of the Year
From the prize-winning author of The Three Escapes of Hanna
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Chicago Tribune Fall Best Read
An Alma most anticipated book of November- Author: Krimstein, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 163557370X
- Language: English
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The Defeat of the Damned: The Destruction of the Dirlewanger Brigade at the Battle of Ipolysag, December 1944
$37.95 Add to cartAn operational history of the notorious Dirlewanger Brigade, culminating in its destruction in Budapest at the hands of the Red Army.
One of the most notorious yet least understood body of troops that … [more below]
- Author: Nash, Douglas E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1636242111
- 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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Eloise in Moscow
$19.99 Add to cartOdd Couple Invade Russia and Produce Best-seller
When Kay Thompson (with Hilary Knight in tow) swept through Moscow at the height of the Cold War, the Russians didn’t know what hit them. No one could… [more below]- Series: Eloise
- Author: Thompson, Kay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0689832117
- 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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War in Ukraine: Volume 2: Russian Invasion, February 2022
$29.95 Read more“The reader will be hard pressed to find another book providing this sort of detailed information. It is liberally illustrated with battlefield photographs and good maps.” — Military Heritage Magazin… [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Cooper, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1804512168
- Language: English
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Here, Right Matters: An American Story
$19.99 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller, now in paperback and with a new afterword
Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision
- Author: Vindman, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 0063079437
- Language: English
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Sweet Movie: Poems
$17.00 Add to cart“What gives us the right to listen to someone else’s body?”–Alisha Dietzman, from Sweet Movie
A National Poetry Series winner selected by Victoria Chang, Sweet Movie confronts romantic and religious- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Dietzman, Alisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0807013285
- Language: English
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
$26.95 Read moreOn the day of his son’s fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe–at least for the time being–in Egypt, wher
- Author: Kingsley, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492551
- Language: English
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Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl
$22.00 Read more“His is a voice that must be heard.” –Patti Smith
“A poetic rush to madness. . . a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving.”
–Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown- Author: Kamysh, Markiyan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1662601271
- Language: English
