Eastern Europe
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The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
$15.95 Read more1939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only to see the occupiers ruthlessly kill many of their animals. T
- Series: Movie Tie-In Editions #0
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354253
- Language: English
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Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape
$46.67 Add to cartNadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first
- Author: Olaru, Stejarel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 06 2023
- ISBN10: 135032129X
- Language: English
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Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz
$20.99 Add to cartWinner of the Yad Vashem International Book Book Prize for Holocaust Research
“A substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence” (The Wall Street Journal) and a cautiona- Author: Bartov, Omer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1451684541
- Language: English
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Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 178378511X
- Language: English
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
$22.00 Add to cartNational Book Award Finalist
TIME Magazine’s #1 Nonfiction Book of 2012
A New York Times Notable Book
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2012
Best Nonfiction of 2012: The Wall Street Journal, The Plain De… [more below]- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 140009593X
- Language: English
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History of Eastern Europe: A Captivating Guide to a Shortened History of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia
$32.99 Add to cartHow much Eastern European history do you know?
The story of Eastern Europe is one of successes and failures, competing interests, and the rise and fall of states and empires. The ancient Greek and Roma
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: October 31 2021
- ISBN10: 163716503X
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Russia
$35.00 Add to cartAccessible to students, tourists, and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the und… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Bushkovitch, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 518
- Publish Date: December 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0521543231
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains) [Black and White Editio
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories.
The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a 2005 hi
- Series: Into the Carpathians #2
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0578754479
- Language: English
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Ukraine at War: Street Art, Posters + Poetry
$40.00 Read moreA unique book that showcases how Ukrainian society is expressing itself through art.
War came to Ukraine in February 2022; it was uninvited–although not entirely unexpected given Russia’s steady, mas- Author: Sarhandi-Williams, Daoud
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717264
- Language: English
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
$21.99 Add to cartA Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe “mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system” in this “vividly empathetic” account of the worst nu… [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 154161707X
- Language: English
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Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus’ Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption
$24.99 Add to cartIn 1987, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ranking defector ever from the Eastern bloc, published RED HORIZONS, his expose of the unchecked power and corruption of Nicolae Ceausecu, then the Roma… [more below]
- Series: Cold War Classics
- Author: Pacepa, Ion Mihai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0895267462
- Language: English
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More than a Grain of Truth: The official true story behind the film Mr. Jones, starring James Norton
$24.98 Add to cartThe true story behind the film Mr. Jones, starring James Norton.
“In pursuit of his investigations he shrank from no risk… He had the almost unfailing knack of getting at things that mattered” – Davi
- Author: Colley, Margaret Siriol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: December 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1839014768
- Language: English
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
$32.00 Add to cart“Rebecca West’s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time.” —The New Yorker
Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West’s classic examination of the history, people, and politics … [more below]- Author: West, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1232
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 014310490X
- Language: English
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Poland: The First Thousand Years
$32.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: September 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0875807569
- Language: English
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Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
$19.99 Add to cart“A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine’s brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future.”–Financial Times
Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands,
- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603486
- Language: English
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Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation’s Cultural Heritage
$40.00 Add to cartTreasures of Ukraine chronicles the arts and heritage of Ukraine at a time when the country’s people, culture, landmarks, and artworks are facing destruction and devastation. Created in partnership w
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0500026033
- Language: English
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
$19.95 Add to cartAn account of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history from the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident contaminated as much as thr
- Series: Lannan Selection
- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1628973307
- Language: English
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Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
$18.95 Add to cartA landmark book that changed the story of Poland’s role in the Holocaust
On July 10, 1941, in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and- Author: Gross, Jan T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234302
- Language: English
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Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization
$35.00 Read moreWithout the Byzantine Empire, there never would have been Western civilization.
Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philos- Author: Spencer, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1637587422
- Language: English
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Will to Survive: A History of Hungary
$36.99 Add to cartThe Will to Survive describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequ… [more below]
- Author: Cartledge, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: April 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0199327343
- Language: English
