Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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Kobzar
$29.99 Add to cartMasterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine’s rich cultural heri… [more below]
- Author: Fedynsky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: October 11 2013
- ISBN10: 190915654X
- Language: English
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Marián Hossa: My Journey from TrencÃn to the Hall of Fame
$20.00 Read moreA Stanley Cup champion and modern legend of the game, in his own words.
Mari?n Hossa’s life is a lesson in the value of determination and perseverance. Born into a hockey family that included his fat- Author: Hossa, Marian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1637274548
- Language: English
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Beginner’s Croatian with Online Audio
$24.95 Add to cartCroatian is a Slavic language spoken mainly in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina, and in various neighboring countries by about 5.5 million people. It is the official … [more below]
- Author: Vidan, Aida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 369
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0781814081
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Romania
$32.00 Add to cartSpanning a period of 2000 years from the Roman conquest of Dacia to the present day, A Concise History of Romania traces the development of a unique nation situated on the border between East and West… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Hitchins, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0521694132
- Language: English
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Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times
$21.99 Add to cartThe infamous Vlad Dracula, 15th-century Prince of Romania, was the basis for Bram Stoker’s fictional character. This biography covers the ‘Impaler’s’ life and subsequent legend and examines how closel… [more below]
- Author: McNally, Raymond T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: October 31 1990
- ISBN10: 0316286567
- Language: English
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Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse
$22.00 Add to cart“[An] unforgettable memoir” (Boston Globe) that provides a window into the wildly divergent nations that once comprised the Soviet Union, from a former NPR reporter
Not with a bang, but with a quiet,- Author: Sheets, Lawrence Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0307395839
- Language: English
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The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
$23.99 Add to cart“In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there’s absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy…. [more below]
- Author: Sierakowiak, Dawid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 14 1998
- ISBN10: 0195122852
- Language: English
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
$18.99 Add to cart“A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of f
- Author: Albright, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0062030345
- Language: English
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The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
$24.95 Add to cartAn updated new edition of a classic history of the Hungarians from their earliest origins to today
In this absorbing and comprehensive history, Paul Lendvai tells the fascinating story of how the Hung- Author: Lendvai, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0691200270
- Language: English
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Georgian-English/English-Georgian Dictionary & Phrasebook
$16.95 Add to cartGeorgian (Kartuli) is the official language of the country of Georgia, a former Soviet republic. It is also spoken by hundreds of thousands in Turkey, Iran, Russia, Europe and the U.S. This easy-to-us… [more below]
- Series: Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebook
- Author: Awde, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: December 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0781812429
- Language: English
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust
$32.99 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE
“The mass killings of Jews from 1918 to 1921 are a bridge between local pogroms and the extermination of the Holoc- Author: Veidlinger, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250812127
- Language: English
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Shtetl
$21.99 Add to cartIn Shtetl (Yiddish for “small town”), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture,… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1586485245
- Language: English
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A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival: Second Edition
$24.99 Add to cartThis classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. While paying tribute to Slovakia’s resilience and strug
- Author: Kirschbaum, Stanislav J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 04 2005
- ISBN10: 1403969299
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict
$17.95 Add to cartRussia’s brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire
- Author: Benjamin, Medea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682193713
- Language: English
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To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949
$27.00 Add to cart“Chilling… To Hell and Back should be required reading in every chancellery, every editorial cockpit and every place where peevish Euroskeptics do their thinking…. Kershaw documents each and every… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of Europe
- Author: Kershaw, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109928
- Language: English
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German History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Germany and Germania
$34.99 Add to cartIf you want to discover the captivating history of Germany, then keep reading…
Two captivating manuscripts in one book:
- History of Germany: A Captivating Guide to German History, Starting from 1871 t
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1637164017
- Language: English
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From Peoples Into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
$27.95 Add to cartA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 968
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0691208956
- Language: English
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
$22.95 Add to cartAn epic account of the rise and fall of the Silk Road empires
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental ret- Author: Beckwith, Christopher I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0691150346
- Language: English
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
$41.00 Add to cartFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prizewinning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialism.
In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0465098495
- Language: English
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Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984
$29.95 Add to cartAs the Seventies drew to a close and the media declared punk dead and buried, a whole new breed of band was emerging from the gutter. Harder and faster than their ’76-’77 predecessors, not to mention
- Author: Glasper, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1604867485
- Language: English
