Eastern Europe
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Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
$22.00 Add to cartIn this acclaimed international bestseller, Claudio Magris tracks the Danube River, setting his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and We
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Magris, Claudio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0374522456
- 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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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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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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Poland: A History
$29.95 Read moreAs Adam Zamoyski set out to update The Polish Way, his bestselling first history of Poland, he realized the task required not so much re-writing as re-thinking the known facts well as the assumptions … [more below]
- Author: Zamoyski, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0781813018
- 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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A Concise History of Poland
$35.00 Add to cartPoland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Lukowski, Jerzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: January 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1108440126
- Language: English
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The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblingsbeing led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Ins
- Author: Duffy, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0060935537
- Language: English
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Warnings
$28.00 Add to cartOld friends–one a Jew, the other a Christian–Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience makes us anxious about democracy, because we … [more below]
- Author: Grob, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1666743968
- Language: English
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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (New Edition)
$23.00 Read moreFrom the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genoc
- Author: Kaplan, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312424930
- Language: English
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Surviving Genocide: Personal Recollections
$25.00 Add to cartThe author describes the loss of her home in Eastern Europe during World War II, her family’s deportation to a Nazi labor camp, and their eventual arrival in the United States. Relying on historic sou… [more below]
- Author: Chmara, Donna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1950423808
- Language: English
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In Search of Dracula: The History of Dracula and Vampires
$20.99 Add to cartThe true story behind the legend of Dracula – a biography of Prince Vlad of Transylvania, better known as Vlad the Impaler. This revised edition now includes entries from Bram Stoker’s recently discov
- Author: McNally, Raymond T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0395657830
- Language: English
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The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
$16.99 Add to cartJan and Antonina Zabinski were Polish Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who managed to save over three hundred people. Yet their story has fallen between the seams of history. Drawing on
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2008
- ISBN10: 039333306X
- Language: English
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The Crossroads of Civilization: A History of Vienna
$29.95 Read more“From the Congress of Vienna to the Austria World Summit, the city of Vienna has hosted key meetings on peace to climate action. This is a first-class book about Vienna as the crossroads of civilizati… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Angus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1639361952
- Language: English
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The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of the War
$18.99 Add to cartIn a series of beautiful, impassioned essays, Croatian journalist and feminist Drakulic provides a very real and human side to the Balkans war and shows how the conflict has affected her closest frien… [more below]
- Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 17 1993
- ISBN10: 0393341224
- Language: English
