Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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Poland: The First Thousand Years
$45.95 Add to cartSince its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern perio
- Author: Dabrowski, Patrice M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 087580487X
- Language: English
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German Generals Talk
$18.99 Add to cartThe German Generals who survived Hitler’s Reich talk over World War II with Capt. Liddell Hart, noted British miltary strategist and writer. They speak as professional soldiers to a man they know and
- Author: Hart, Basil H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0688060129
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Hungary
$32.00 Add to cartThis book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the 1988 elections. It tells abo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Moln?r, Mikl?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: April 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0521667364
- Language: English
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Bulgaria – Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
$16.99 Read moreDon’t just see the sights―get to know the people.
Bulgaria, situated in southeastern Europe on the Black Sea, is one of Europe’s best-hidden secrets. A haven for nature and history buffs, this yo
- Series: Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
- Author: Tzvetkova, Juliana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1787023273
- Language: English
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The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust’s Shadow
$19.00 Add to cartTrue story from the major motion picture “In Darkness,” official 2012 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
In 1943, with Lvov’s 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into- Author: Chiger, Krystyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250018986
- Language: English
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Back to Istanbul: On Foot Across Europe to the Great Silk Road
$32.50 Read moreAfter trekking nearly 7,500 miles, from Istanbul, Turkey to Xi’an, China, French travel writer Bernard Ollivier thought he had put the Silk Road behind him–enough for a retiree to rest on his laurels… [more below]
- Author: Ollivier, Bernard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1510776826
- Language: English
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Serbs and Albanians
$29.00 Add to cartReleased for the first time in the English language, and marking the centennial of Albania’s independence, Serbs and Albanians delivers an at once refreshing and comprehensive insight into the cultura… [more below]
- Author: Sufflay, Milan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 098871292X
- Language: English
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Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
$76.99 Add to cartRemembered by many as the Soviet leader who banged his shoe at the United Nations, Nikita Khrushchev was in fact one of the most complex and important political figures of the twentieth century. Compl… [more below]
- Author: Taubman, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: November 18 2010
- ISBN10: 0393051447
- Language: English
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
$15.95 Add to cart‘An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself’
The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in Paris, Malte begins to re- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199646031
- Language: English
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The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier
$20.00 Add to cartBiographer and historian Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the “Glass Wall” between Europe and Asia in this riveting historical account.
Few countries have suffered more- Author: Egremont, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1250863163
- Language: English
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Chernobyl 01: 23:40: The incredible true story of the world’s worst nuclear disaster
$27.00 Add to cartAt 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thous
- Author: Leatherbarrow, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 099359753X
- Language: English
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The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays
$15.00 Add to cartA collection of essays and articles from the Ukranian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno, who fought against encroaching Bolshevik terror during the Russian Revolution. The Struggle Against the State and ot… [more below]
- Author: Makhno, Nestor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1873176783
- Language: English
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The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War
$34.95 Add to cartIn this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European e… [more below]
- Series: Verso World History (Paperback)
- Author: Mayer, Arno J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 1844676358
- Language: English
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And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe’s Crisis and America’s Economic Future
$45.50 Read moreA #1 Sunday Times bestseller [UK]
A titanic battle is being waged for Europe’s integrity and soul, with the forces of reason and humanism losing out to growing irrationality, authoritarianism, and mal- Author: Varoufakis, Yanis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585047
- Language: English
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Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century
$37.27 Add to cartA sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe that examines its unprecedented destruction–and abiding promise
A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era o- Author: Jarausch, Konrad H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 888
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173079
- Language: English
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From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
$58.33 Read moreA sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to today
In the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm.- Author: Connelly, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0691167125
- Language: English
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
$18.99 Add to cartPart history, part autobiography, WALKING SINCE DAYBREAK tells the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II. Personal stories of the survival or destruction of Modris
- Author: Eksteins, Modris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 31 2007
- ISBN10: 061808231X
- Language: English
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Mysticism for Beginners: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartPowerful New work by a modern master.
You must listen, listen, listen.
Tired springs breathe under water.
At four in the morningthe last, lonely bolt of lightning
scribbles something quickly in the sky.
I- Author: Zagajewski, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 15 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526877
- Language: English
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The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
$19.99 Add to cartThe poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews
Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examini- Author: Desbois, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0230617573
- Language: English
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Zelensky: The Unlikely Ukrainian Hero Who Defied Putin and United the World
$16.99 Read moreThe first major profile of Ukraine’s courageous President Volodymyr Zelensky!
Ukraine’s most popular comedic actor was an unlikely president of his country. And now, even more improbably, Volodymyr Ze- Author: Urban, Andrew L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513782
- Language: English
