Eastern Europe
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How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
$18.99 Add to cart“She is a writer and journalist whose voice belongs to the world.” — Gloria Steinem
This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and fe
- Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0060975407
- Language: English
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Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A revelatory history of one of Stalin’s greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more… [more below]
- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0804170886
- Language: English
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A Ukrainian Christmas
$26.99 Read more‘History, stories, recipes and beautiful illustrations’ – OLINA HERCULES
‘Christmas brings the indestructibility of hope in times of the greatest hopelessness. As long as we celebrate this holiday, w- Author: Hrytsak, Yaroslav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1408728419
- Language: English
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The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
$28.95 Add to cartIn August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic–it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known
- Author: Longo, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0393540774
- Language: English
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Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation
$34.00 Add to cartA “pioneering and fundamental” (Timothy Snyder) new history of Ukraine from one of its leading public intellectuals
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheelin- Author: Hrytsak, Yaroslav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541704606
- Language: English
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War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023
From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced young journalists” (The New York Times)–the first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppressing- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 166801372X
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$22.99 Add to cart“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn’s entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain fo
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253723
- Language: English
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The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
$36.00 Read moreAn essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history
Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empi- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619781
- Language: English
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A Traveller’s History of Croatia
$14.95 Add to cartGeorge Bernard Shaw wrote that on the last day of Creation, “God desired to crown His work,” and so fashioned the Croatian coastline “out of tears, stars, and breath.” Anyone who has glimpsed that lon
- Series: Interlink Traveller’s Histories
- Author: Curtis, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15, 2020
- ISBN10: 1566568080
- Language: English
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
$19.99 Add to cart“A remarkable–and singularly chilling–glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book…represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.”–Newsweek
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- Author: Browning, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 28, 2017
- ISBN10: 0062303023
- Language: English
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Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
$30.00 Add to cartIn light of Russia’s aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed, from pre-C… [more below]
- Author: Mikanowski, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1524748501
- Language: English
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The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
$22.00 Add to cartThe astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II–when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia.
“An amazing, riv- Author: Freeman, Gregory A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02, 2008
- ISBN10: 0451224957
- Language: English
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Freedom to Win: A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People–And Olympic Gold
$28.95 Read moreA classic David & Goliath tale, complete with colorful heroes, cold-hearted villains, and nail-biting games–with the hockey rink serving as an arena for a nation’s resistance.
During the height of th- Author: Scheiner, Ethan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363513
- Language: English
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A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into the Russian Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive history of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship between Russia and the West
Overlapping with and overshadowed- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619668
- Language: English
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Safe Area Gorazde
$24.99 Add to cartPraised by The New York Times, Brill’s Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically… [more below]
- Author: Sacco, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2002
- ISBN10: 1560974702
- Language: English
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
$29.00 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 three
- Series: Lannan Selection
- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 28, 2005
- ISBN10: 1564784010
- Language: English
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history f
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541600061
- Language: English
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
$21.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country” (Wall Street Journal).
As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle wi- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 25, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675649
- Language: English
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