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  • Theos Et Deus. Vers Une Interprétation Du Mot Dieu En Grec Et Latin

    Pourquoi le mot Dieu en Grec et en Latin est-il si court ? Theos/Thea et Deus/Dea. Ne pourrions nous pas interpréter cette écriture ? Ce livre explique pourquoi la première lettre (Theta et D) est la plus importante pour donner sens à cette écriture. Il tend alors à démontrer que ces lettres pourraient être considérées comme des idéogrammes. ... Read more

    $1.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To End a War

    The Conflict in Yugoslavia--America's Inside Story--Negotiating with Milosevic

    When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.As passionate as he was controversial, Holbrooke believed that the only way to bring peace to the Balkans ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The History of Bulgaria

    Series series The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
    This comprehensive overview of the history of Bulgaria covers events in this important Balkan nation from its 9th-century origins in the first Bulgarian Empire through the present day.Now an Eastern European leader in the fields of science and technology, a nation with impressive renewable energy production capabilities and an extensive communication infrastructure, as well as a top exporter of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Bloedlanden

    europa tussen Hitler en Stalin

    Bloedlanden van gerenomeerd historicus Timothy Snyder wordt beschouwd als het standaardwerk over de geschiedenis van Midden-Europa van 1933 tot en met 1945.Bloedlanden is een standaardwerk over de onderbelichte geschiedenis van Midden-Europa, een boek dat ons beeld van de verschrikkingen vóór en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog nuanceert en bijstelt.Auschwitz wordt dikwijls beschouwd als hét symbool ... Read more

    $11.08 USD

  • They Did Not Have Horns: The Viking Kings of Norway

    This popular history of the Norwegian Viking period features lively accounts of the Kings and their families along with illustrations. ... Read more

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  • The Law in Political Integration

    The classic 1971 study of how law and politics combine to predict a future for European integration, in what would become the EU. Scheingold analyzes the early data and reasons that law and regional integration will lead the future of the Union, not a U.S.-style constitutional development of federalism. It remains a fascinating window on the origins of the EU, plus a new Foreword by Joerg Fedtke. ... Read more

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  • Исторический орнамент

    «Исторический орнамент» предназначен для подростков и взрослых, не разучившихся видеть необычное в обычном.Реальная история зачастую переплетается с легендами, потом легенды перерастают в фантастическую выдумку – это и есть тот круговорот превращений, который заставляет молодого человека обратиться к истокам цивилизации, к знанию истории, философии и культуры. Так происходит в циклах «Греческая ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800

    In Europe’s Steppe Frontier, acclaimed historian William H. McNeill analyzes the process whereby the thinly occupied grasslands of southeastern Europe were incorporated into the bodies-social of three great empires: the Ottoman, the Austrian, and the Russian. McNeill benefits from a New World detachment from the bitter nationality quarrels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century which ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Remembering Occupied Warsaw

    Polish Narratives of World War II

    Offering a rare glimpse into the lives of those who lived through the German occupation of Poland's capital, this important ethnography explores how elderly residents of Warsaw recollect, narrate, and commemorate their experiences, thus showing how the cultural legacies of the occupation reveal themselves in contemporary Polish society. The individuals who are the focus of this study, all long ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Balkan Genocides

    Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century

    by Paul Mojzes ...
    Series series Studies in Genocide: Religion, History, and Human Rights
    During the twentieth century, the Balkan Peninsula was affected by three major waves of genocides and ethnic cleansings, some of which are still being denied today. In Balkan Genocides Paul Mojzes provides a balanced and detailed account of these events, placing them in their proper historical context and debunking the common misrepresentations and misunderstandings of the genocides themselves.A ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Treasured Memories

    Tales of Buried Belongings in Wartime Estonia

    In the autumn of 1944, around 70,000 people fled Estonia in the face of the Red Army's advance; most of them believed the Soviet occupation would be short-lived and they would soon be able to return home. A comprehensive study of a common yet neglected phenomenon, this book tells the stories of the hoards of valuable belongings hidden by these Estonian escapees. The sheer variety of objects, ... Read more

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  • Battleground Prussia

    The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944–45

    by Prit Buttar ...
    An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil.The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy. The twentieth century history of the Baltic countries has often been deeply tragic. Lying on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, these rather small but ... Read more

    $48.99 USD $32.99 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

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  • Responsibility of Command: How UN and NATO Commanders Influenced Airpower over Bosnia - History of the Bosnia War, Operation Deny Flight, Srebrenica

    This book examines the role that theater-level commanders in the UN and NATO played in influencing the use of airpower over Bosnia between the spring of 1993 and the end of 1995. It also uncovers factors explaining why top UN and NATO commanders in the region acted as they did. The central thesis of this study is that the commanders' needs to balance the various responsibilities inherent in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gustavus Adolphus

    A History of the Art of War from Its Revival After the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Swede

    A grand sweeping military history of the “pike and shot” era, with a particular emphasis on the Thirty Years’ War in Europe (1618–1648). Originally published in two volumes, the first covers the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and known as “The Lion of the North” by his many opponents. Born into an era of constant warfare, he became king at 17, transformed the Army of Sweden into the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • La fine dei Ceausescu

    Tradotto e curato da Luca Bistolfi«Questo libro rimette le cose al loro posto, superando ogni luogo comune circolato in questi due decenni. Credo che ne uscirà un film memorabile».Cristian Mungiu, regista, vincitore della Palma d'Oro a CannesLa più documentata ricostruzione della fine del regime comunista in RomaniaTutto il mondo ha seguito, attraverso televisioni e giornali, i fatti accaduti in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wie schiet daar toch?

    getuigen van de laatste Europese oorlog

    In Wie schiet daar toch? geeft Slingerland de oorlog in voormalig Joegoslavië een gezicht. Ze laat zien hoe degenen die het kleinste aandeel hebben in het uitbreken van conflicten er vaak de grootste slachtoffers van worden. Tot verbijstering van de wereld vatten begin jaren negentig alle deelrepublieken van voormalig Joegoslavië in meer of mindere mate vlam. De achttienjarige Tanja Vuckovic woont ... Read more

    $8.87 USD

  • Dievų miškas

    by Balys Sruoga ...
    Memuarinis lietuvių rašytojo ir poeto Balio Sruogos romanas. Jame aprašyti autoriaus išgyvenimai nacių Štuthofo koncentracijos stovykloje, į kurią B.Sruoga buvo išsiųstas 1943 m. kovą. Romanas kupinas ironijos ir pasišaipymo iš lagerių tvarkos, elgesio su kaliniais ir apskritai iš visos esamos situacijos. Knygą B.Sruoga parašė vos per kelis mėnesius, tik grįžęs iš koncentracijos stovyklos į ... Read more

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  • Būdas senovės lietuvių, kalnėnų ir žemaičių

    Simonui Daukantui gyvam esant, 1845 m., iš keturių jo istoriografinių veikalų buvo išleistas tik „Būdas senovės lietuvių, kalnėnų ir žemaičių“, pasirašytas Jokūbo Laukio slapyvardžiu ir spausdintas Sankt-Peterburge. „Būdas“ daugiau priskirtinas kultūros istorijos žanrui. ... Read more

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  • Zwischen Schonung und Menschenjagden

    Die Arbeitseinsatzpolitik in den baltischen Generalbezirken des Reichskommissariats Ostland 1941-1944

    by Tilman Plath ...
    Es gab sie auch im Baltikum - regelrechte Menschenjagden als Rekrutierungsmethode zur Gewinnung von Arbeitskräften für die deutschen Kriegsanstrengungen. Vor Ort mussten nicht nur jüdische Zwangsarbeiter unter mörderischen Bedingungen in KZs und anderen Haftstätten Zwangsarbeit leisten. Und doch nehmen sich die Gesamtzahlen von Zwangsarbeitern aus dem Baltikum deutlich geringer aus als in anderen ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • De-Centering Cold War History

    Local and Global Change

    De-Centering Cold War History challenges the Cold War master narratives that focus on super-power politics by shifting our analytical perspective to include local-level experiences and regional initiatives that were crucial to the making of a Cold War world. Cold War histories are often told as stories of national leaders, state policies and the global confrontation that pitted a Communist Eastern ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Baltic Facades

    Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1945

    by Aldis Purs ...
    Series series Contemporary Worlds
    Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are often grouped together as the Baltic States, but these three Eastern European countries, tied together historically, are quite different. Although each is struggling to find its place within Europe and fighting to preserve its own identity, the idea of the Baltic States is a façade. In this book, Aldis Purs dispels the myth of a single, coherent Baltic identity, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD