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  • The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World

    by Tara Zahra ...
    "Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." —Robert Levgold, Foreign AffairsBetween 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out villages and irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. With a keen historical ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Balkans

    A Short History

    by Mark Mazower ...
    Series Book 3 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject to violent shifts of borders, rulers and belief systems at the hands of the world's great empires--from the Byzantine to the Habsburg and Ottoman--the Balkans are often called Europe's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Bury Me Standing

    The Gypsies and Their Journey

    Series series Vintage Departures
    A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture.Fabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, the Gypsies—or Roma—are among the least understood people on earth. Their culture remains largely obscure, but in Isabel Fonseca they have found an eloquent witness.In Bury Me Standing, alongside ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Vlad the Impaler: Son of Dracul

    by Alan C. Baird ...
    Many will assume this is just another retelling of the "Dracula" horror myth... but Vlad's story is true. Hitler's Holocaust killed approximately 10% of Germany's people, while some estimates claim that Vlad exterminated more than 20% of his fellow Wallachians. A gruesome genre-bender with perverse humor, based on 15th-century history. Warning: graphic transgressive violence. ... Read more

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  • The Whistleblower

    Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice

    The Whistleblower presents the shocking story of the human rights abuses perpetrated by American mercenary soldiers abroad, as told by the woman who brought them down--now a major motion picture.When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Last Palace

    Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

    by Norman Eisen ...
    A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupantsWhen Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Enemies of the People

    My Family's Journey to America

    by Kati Marton ...
    Acclaimed journalist Kati Marton recounts her family’s harrowing history of being targeted by Communist operatives and her own father’s imprisonment as Cold War tensions ran high across Eastern Europe.Enemies of the People is a tour de force, an important work of history as it was lived, a narrative of multiple betrayals on both sides of the Cold War that ends with triumph and a new beginning in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • My Friend Anne Frank

    The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

    "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank.In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Empires of the Silk Road

    A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

    The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Great Sea

    A Human History of the Mediterranean

    Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Eastern Front (True Combat)

    In the ruined houses, streets and sewers of Stalingrad there raged a ferocious hand-to-hand battle. The advancing Panzers proved vulnerable in the close quarter combat. Resistance was to the death as Stalin ordered that the city that bore his name must be held at all costs. For the Germans, the grim reality of another frozen winter in Russia was fast approaching ...Read about Hitler’s plan to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Balkans

    Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011

    by Misha Glenny ...
    This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives readers the essential historical background to recent events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire region, or offers such profound insights into the roots of Balkan violence, or explains so vividly the origins of modern Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Operation Nemesis

    The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

    by Eric Bogosian ...
    A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide.In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper editor, an engineering student, and a diplomat. Together they formed one of the most effective ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Question of Honor

    The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II

    A Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the refugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essential role in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by the Allies after the war.After Poland fell to the Nazis, thousands of Polish pilots, soldiers, and sailors escaped to England. Devoted to liberating their homeland, some would form the RAF’s 303 squadron, known ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Outposts

    Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

    The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empireOutposts is Simon Winchester’s journey to find the vanishing empire, “on which the sun never sets.” In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey—from the chill of the Antarctic to the blue seas of the Caribbean, from the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams

    by Charles King ...
    **Winner of a National Jewish Book Award"Fascinating.…A humane and tragic survey of a great and tragic subject." —Jan Morris, Literary Review**From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of original ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • More Was Lost

    A Memoir

    Set in a Hungarian estate on the edge of the Carpathian Mountains, this “lucid and crisp” memoir is a clear-eyed elegy to a country—and a marriage—torn apart by World War II (The New Yorker)Best known for her classic book Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Eleanor Perényi led a worldly life before settling down in Connecticut. More Was Lost is a memoir of her youth abroad, written in the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Holocaust: History in an Hour

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Holocaust, in which 11 million people died, was the largest atrocity of the 20th century and perhaps the hardest to understand. Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others including Roma people, Poles, Russian prisoners of war, political prisoners, homosexuals, people of colour, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various other minorities were ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Battle of Stalingrad (True Combat)

    The Germans were masters of Blitzkrieg. But in the rubble of a ruined city, the Russians knew the troops of the Third Reich were reluctant to engage in the hand-to-hand battle that victory required. The Soviet soldiers were fearless; time was blood. The Red Army commander’s tactics were brutally simple – defend the city or die...Read about the Attack by the German army on Stalingrad; the brutal ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Ottoman Empire

    1300-1600

    by Halil Inalcik ...
    Covering the greatest three centuries of Turkish history, this book tells the story of the Ottoman Empire's growth into a vast Middle Eastern Power.Born as a military frontier principality at the turn of the Fourteenth century, Turkey developed into the dominant force in Anatolia and the Balkans, growing to become the most powerful Islamic state after 1517 when it incorporated the old Arab lands. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Egg Dealer from Nowy Wiśnicz

    Against a backdrop of rival empires and shifting borders, the Buchbaum and Heller families lived in the foothills of the Carpathians mountains for centuries.Follow Steve Buchsbaum as he visits the Polish and Hungarian villages and towns where his ancestors lived and traces the details of their lives over the centuries.Follow the story of Benjamin Buchbaum, the egg dealer from Nowy Wisnicz, Poland, ... Read more

    $5.25 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Borderland

    A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

    by Anna Reid ...
    **“A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine's brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future.”—**Financial TimesBorderland tells the story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from the east, and for the next seven centuries, Ukraine was split between warring neighbors: Lithuanians, Poles, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Eastern Front 1914-1917

    by Norman Stone ...
    'Without question one of the classics of post-war historical scholarship, Stone's boldly conceived and brilliantly executed book opened the eyes of a generation of young British historians raised on tales of the Western trenches to the crucial importance of the Eastern Front in the First World War' Niall Ferguson 'Scholarly, lucid, entertaining, based on a thorough knowledge of Austrian and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions)

    Series Book 0 - Movie Tie-in Editions
    The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.1939: 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. The Nazis then carry off the prized specimens to Berlin for their program to create the “purest” breeds, much as they ... Read more

    $12.99 USD