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  • "РЕЕМТСМА" В КРЫМУ

    ПРОИЗВОДСТВО ТАБАКА И ПРИНУДИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ТРУД В ПЕРИОД НЕМЕЦКОЙ ОККУПАЦИОННОЙ ВЛАСТИ 1941 — 1944 ГОДОВ

    Во время Второй мировой войны Крым стал местом ожесточенных боев и ужасов германской оккупации. Поскольку немцам не удалось полностью завладеть полуостровом, они проводили беспощадную политику голода, нацеленного коллективного террора и уничтожения, вплоть до геноцида еврейского населения. Ими были разработаны техники грабежа, экономической эксплуатации, а также тактика "выжженной земли", ... Read more

    $32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 38 Specks

    The Proposition

    In 2011 at the age of sixty-nine, Gerard Catherin hung up his chef's whites for the last time to full time on his main passion, his fifteen-year-long dream of finding the elusive diamond pipe in the barren country of northern New South Wales Australia. But still simmering away in his brain was a chance discovery made in 2003 on his way to Rennes-le-Château; the little village in the south of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Batalha De Sarajevo

    by Leão Serva ...
    Nesta edição sobre a guerra civil que fragmentou a ex-Iugoslávia, o autor volta duas vezes ao cenário do conflito, ao palco de sua cobertura original feita para a Folha de S.Paulo, em 1992. Novas narrativas mostram a evolução do país, dez e vinte anos depois do conflito. Nessas novas visitas, Leão Serva reencontra personagens com quem esteve durante a guerra, crianças que cresceram, adultos que ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Physician Under the Nazis

    Memoirs of Henry Glenwick

    Edited by David Glenwick ...
    A Physician Under the Nazis are the memoirs of the first forty years (1909-1948) of the life of Henry Glenwick. It focuses on his experiences as a physician in Russian-occupied Ukraine after the outbreak of World War II, his return to the Warsaw ghetto, and his subsequent journey through labor and concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Following a post-war period in Displaced Persons camps in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • A Short Border Handbook

    A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth

    Translated by Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife ...
    A unique perspective on being an immigrant - Kapllani, who left Albania in 1991 to make his home in Greece, diagnoses the malaise of "border syndrome" by relating key episodes in his own experience and that of those migrants who accompanied him.A wonderful, memorable cast of characters: the hapless villager trying unsuccessfully to get through an automatic door for the first time, two truck ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Short History of Lithuania to 1569: Centennial Edition (19212021)

    Why did Lithuania’s dictator in the 1920s (the pro-Nazi Augustinas Voldemaras) kick the author out of the country for writing this seemingly harmless book? What was the significance of the fact that the author’s father tutored a teenage Lenin while both were in law school in Russia? And how was this ground-breaking equivalent of “Lithuanian History for Dummies” about a century ahead of its time? ... Read more

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  • A Survivor Named Trauma

    Holocaust Memory in Lithuania

    by Myra Sklarew ...
    A Survivor Named Trauma examines the nature of trauma and memory as they relate to the Holocaust in Lithuania. How do we behave under threat? How do we remember extreme danger? How do subsequent generations deal with their histories—whether as descendants of perpetrators or victims, of those who rescued others or were witnesses to genocide? Or those who were separated from their families in early ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Tour of Two Cities: 18th Century London and Paris Compared

    This new translation offers readers of English a unique look at eighteenth century London and England generally, compared to Paris and France in the same period. It was written by the sharp-tongued and observant journalist Linguet, who had moved there to start a French periodical far from French censorship. His observations range from overviews of official institutions like the Law and religion to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Victor's Tale: The Story of Milo Flaten

    One of the GIs Who Led the Invasion of Omaha Beach on D-Day

    by Doc Westring ...
    While it's likely most of us have never wanted to go to war and face combat, many of us are nevertheless fascinated by the experiences of men and women who have.This book is about a man who served as a rifleman in World War II, and was one of the first GIs to land on Omaha Beach on D-Day.A man who survived the landing and continued to fight through France and Germany until the Nazis finally ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain

    Trade Networks and the Importation of a Southern Scandinavian Silver Bullion Economy

    by Tom Horne ...
    Viking-Age trade, network theory, silver economies, kingdom formation, and the Scandinavian raiding and settlement of Ireland and Britain are all popular subjects. However, few have looked for possible connections between these phenomena, something this book suggests were closely related.By allying Blomkvist’s network-kingdoms with Sindbæk’s nodal market-networks, it is argued that the political ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A Woman in Amber

    Healing the Trauma of War and Exile

    by Agate Nesaule ...
    American Book Award Winner: A “stunning” memoir of surviving WWII Latvia—and the long journey to healing that followed (The New York Times Book Review).“A heartbreaking yet inspiring memoir of tragedy and healing,” A Woman in Amber tells the story of how the occupation of Latvia during World War II affected a woman’s relationship with her mother and husband for years to come (Tim O’Brien). Though ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ach, mein Kosovo!

    Der Held des Romans "Ach, mein Kosovo" schließt sich 1998 der Kosovo Befreiungsarmee an, tauscht dann aber das Gewehr gegen ein Stethoskop, denn er ist angehender Mediziner. Bevor Taras Galani in den Krieg zieht, hat er mehrere Jahre in Deutschland gelebt. Aber nichts kann ihn halten, als die Situation in seiner Heimat eskaliert. Der Roman von Mechthild Henneke beruht auf wahren Begebenheiten und ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Admiral Thunderbolt

    The Spectacular Career of Peter Wessel, Norway’s Greatest Sea Hero

    “A Sea Cadet in 1711 and a Vice Admiral in 1718, young Wessel barged into battle against his Swedish foes wherever he found them, often in direct violation of orders issued by timid souls in the Admiralty. But Frederik IV, King of Denmark-Norway, loved a winner. He gave his youthful fighting cock promotion after promotion, over scores of officers of senior vintage. The result was that Peter had ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against Hitler's Luftwaffe in the Balkans

    The Royal Yugoslav Air Force at War in 1941

    The full story of the service and combats missions of 220 Yugoslav aviators in early 1941.Immediately following the end of the First World War, the air force of the newly-formed Southern Slav State, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, was forced to rely mainly on war-time Serbian Air Service aircraft and material left after the withdrawal of the French Armée de l’Air from the Balkans in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Albania: To Be or Not to Be?

    ‘‘We ourselves, at the outset of the war, received from a responsible Serbian source this frank announcement: “We will extirpate the Albanians.” Now that this system of annihilation is being persisted in without modification, despite all European protests, we deem it our duty to reveal the designs of the gentlemen of Belgrade without more ado… In this matter facts speak more loudly than any ... Read more

    $4.50 USD

  • Albanie

    Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

    Fortement marquée par une occupation ottomane de cinq siècles, mais cependant fidèle à ses origines ethniques et nationales, l'Albanie (2,8 millions d'habitants au recensement de 2011) s'est affirmée comme État indépendant malgré la petitesse de son territoire et la pauvreté de sa population au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale... ... Read more

    $4.49 USD

  • Ali Pasha

    This text was taken from ‘Celebrated Crimes’, a series of essays on famous criminals and crimes by the author of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ and ‘The Three Musketeers’, Alexandre Dumas.Ali Pasha Tepeleni was the ruler of the western part of Rumelia (the southern Balkan region of the Ottoman Empire from 1809 to 1822. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alpine Warriors

    Winner, Mountaineering History, 2015 Banff Mountain Book CompetitionFrom internationally renowned mountain historian Bernadette McDonald comes a highly readable, intense and exciting look at the explosion of Slovenian alpinism in the context of that country’s turbulent political history.After the Second World War a period of relative calm began in Josip Broz Tito’s Yugoslavia. During the next ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Als gäbe es mich nicht

    Roman

    Translated by Astrid Philippsen ...
    Die junge Lehrerin S. aus Bosnien bringt Anfang der neunziger Jahre in Schweden ein Kind zur Welt. Aber im Gegensatz zu den anderen Babys auf der Station hat dieses Neugeborene weder Sicherheit noch Heimat. Es hat keinen Namen und statt eines Vaters viele Väter: die gesichtslose Masse der Soldaten, die S. in einem serbischen Frauenkonzentrationslager immer wieder vergewaltigt haben. Im Wochenbett ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Apelsinų kontrabanda ir kiti pasakojimai apie smetoninę Lietuvą

    Knygose apie tarpukarį paprastai didžiausias dėmesys skiriamas politiniams, jau daug kur minėtiems faktams. Vadovėliuose nepasakojama apie keisčiausius to meto lobių ieškotojų radinius, mūšius dėl pigesnio alaus ar kodėl ne vietoje ir ne laiku pasipainiojusios bananų žievės galėjo atidengti intymias damų paslaptis. Visas šias įdomybes rasite Gedimino Kulikausko knygoje. Kaip rašo pats autorius: ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Armies of the Baltic Independence Wars 1918–20

    Series Book 227 - Elite
    Immediately following the end of World War I, amid the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, bitter fighting broke out in the Baltic region as Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania struggled for their independence, and Red and White Russian armies began their civil war. There were also German forces still active in what had been the northern end of Germany's ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Asian Odyssey

    Asian Odyssey, first published in 1940, is the autobiographical account of Dmitri Alioshin’s experiences in Siberia and Mongolia in the chaotic, often extremely violent times following the Russian Revolution. Alioshin, an officer in the Imperial Army, served in the army of the White Russians under General Kolchak and Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, then in the communist Red Army, and later joined the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Athanasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis and Greek Irredentism

    A Life in the Shadows

    Athanasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis (1878–1945) was a Greek military officer, undercover agent, author, and politician who in Greece today is not as well-known as he should be. Inasmuch as he is remembered at all today, Souliotis-Nikolaidis is associated with the much better-known Ion Dragoumis, with whom he was connected through bonds of friendship and ideology. InAthanasios Souliotis-Nikolaidis and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Authoritarian Laughter

    Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania

    Winner of the 2024 BASEES (British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies) Women's Forum.Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania. Artists, writers, and journalists were required to create state-sponsored Soviet humor and serve the Communist Party after Lithuania was incorporated into the Soviet Union in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD