Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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Stalin’s Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953
$18.99 Add to cartA new investigation, based on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the startling truth behind Stalin’s last great conspiracy.
On January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned that a vast conspiracy had
- Author: Brent, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0060933100
- Language: English
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Great State: China and the World
$20.00 Read moreNow in paperback
“A dizzying and exhilarating journey. . . . Understanding how China sees itself and how it justifies its actions is critical to understanding today’s world. Great State offers some com
- Author: Brook, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0063143445
- Language: English
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Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
$35.00 Read moreThe mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the 20th-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the finest observer and chronicler of his age.
Endless Flight trave
- Author: Pim, Keiron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1783785098
- Language: English
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Trekking Austria’s Adlerweg: The Eagle’s Way Across the Austrian Alps in Tyrol
$29.95 Read moreA guidebook to walking the Adlerweg (Eagle’s Way) trail between St Johann in Tirol and St Anton am Arlberg via Innsbruck. Covering 324km (201 miles), this long-distance trek through the Austrian Tyro
- Author: Wells, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1786310902
- Language: English
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Eastern Europe!, 2nd Edition: Everything You Need to Know about the History (and More) of a Region That Shaped Our World and Still Does
$29.95 Add to cart100 ratings (4.6/5) on Amazon for the first edition: The long-awaited new edition of the acclaimed, first-ever comprehensive, informative, and entertaining history of Eastern Europe in English–thorou
- Author: Jankowski, Tomek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 742
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0997316926
- Language: English
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1848: Year of Revolution
$22.99 Read moreA “lively, panoramic” history of a revolutionary year (New York Times)
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had ke- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020674
- Language: English
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Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
$20.99 Add to cartOne of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on diaries, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoritative account of a l
- Author: Gutman, Israel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0395901308
- Language: English
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Hundertwasser
$20.00 Add to cartVivid color, organic forms, and a loathing of straight lines were just a few stalwart characteristics in the unique practice of Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000). A non-conformist hero, the arti
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Restany, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 19 2018
- ISBN10: 3836564211
- Language: English
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The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War
$29.95 Add to cartThe war that broke out in the former Yugoslavia at the end of the twentieth century unleashed unspeakable acts of violence committed against defenseless civilians, including a grizzly mass murder at a… [more below]
- Author: Dzuro, VladimÃr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640121951
- Language: English
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Fall of the Double Eagle: The Battle for Galicia and the Demise of Austria-Hungary
$34.95 Add to cart“[A] must-read for students of history and historians alike.”—Washington Book Review
Although southern Poland and western Ukraine are not often thought of in terms of decisive battles in World War I,
- Author: Schindler, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1612347657
- Language: English
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Insight Guides Explore Dubrovnik (Travel Guide with Free Ebook)
$15.99 Add to cartInsight Guides Explore is an illustrated, practical pocket-sized travel guide to Dubrovnik with ready-made walking itineraries for different interests and themes, backed up by maps and all the practic
- Series: Insight Guides Explore
- Author: Insight Guides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1839053399
- Language: English
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The Mini Rough Guide to Budapest (Travel Guide with Free Ebook)
$9.99 Read moreThis pocket-sized travel guide to Budapest is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do, what to see and how to get around the destination. It covers top attractions like Buda’
- Series: Mini Rough Guides
- Author: Guides, Rough
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1839058668
- Language: English
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The Best of Ukrainian Cuisine
$16.95 Add to cartThis compendium of Ukrainian cookery contains more than just your typical babka and borshch–it features more than 200 authentic Ukranian recipes with the special touch that, until now, only a Ukraini… [more below]
- Series: Hippocrene International Cookbook Series
- Author: Zahny, Bohdan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 295
- Publish Date: May 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0781806542
- Language: English
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The Czechoslovak Cookbook: Czechoslovakia’s Best-Selling Cookbook Adapted for American Kitchens. Includes Recipes for Authentic Dishes Like Goula
$19.99 Read moreJoza Brizova
In Czechoslovakia, a country known for fine cooks, a copy of Varime Zdrave Chutne a Hospodarne graces nearly every kitchen. Now this best-selling Czechoslovak cookbook has been adapted fo- Series: Crown Classic Cookbook
- Author: Brizova, Joza
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 13 1965
- ISBN10: 0517505479
- Language: English
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A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (National Book Award Winner)
$14.99 Read moreAn ALA Notable Book and winner of the National Book Award for Children’s Books, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s A Day of Pleasure shares his memories as a boy growing up in Warsaw, Poland prior to World War I
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0374416966
- Language: English
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
$21.00 Add to cartThe recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. A longtime critic of the Russian govern… [more below]
- Author: Politkovskaya, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226674339
- 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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Yad l’Yedinitz; memorial book for the Jewish community of Yedintzi, Bessarabia
$88.00 Add to cartYedinitz, Bessarabia, compared to where we live today, was a small shtetl. Yet for us, it was a city. I can still see the streets and small lanes. Here is the small marketplace, the Torhovitse as we u
- Author: Reicher, Mordechai
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 780
- Publish Date: January 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1954176600
- Language: English
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The Rough Guide to Budapest: Travel Guide with Free eBook
$24.99 Add to cartThis Budapest guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed
- Series: Rough Guides Main
- Author: Guides, Rough
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1789196884
- Language: English
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
$25.99 Add to cartIn 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Chang… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 401
- Publish Date: March 29 2012
- ISBN10: 1107632757
- Language: English
