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  • Goodbye, Eastern Europe

    An Intimate History of a Divided Land

    In 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-Christianity to the fall of Communism—illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history."Eastern Europe" has gone out of fashion since ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fear

    Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz

    by Jan Gross ...
    An astonishing and heartbreaking study of the Polish Holocaust survivors who returned home only to face continued violence and anti-Semitism at the hands of their neighbors“[Fear] culminates in so keen a shock that even a student of the Jewish tragedy during World War II cannot fail to feel it.”—Elie WieselFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Three Minutes in Poland

    Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film

    by Glenn Kurtz ...
    The author's discovery of a brief 16mm film shot by his grandfather during a 1938 visit to his soon-to-be-extinguished birthplace in Poland unfolds like a detective story. Now the basis for the documentary Three Minutes: A Lengthening.Named one of the best books of 2014 by NPR, The New Yorker, and The Boston GlobeWhen Glenn Kurtz stumbles upon an old family film in his parents' closet in Florida, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

    A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Tracks)

    by Norman Davies ...
    The fascinating history of a Baltic empire’s dominance and decline—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished KingdomsVanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt from his widely acclaimed book, Norman Davies tells the ill-fated story of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Founded in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Demon in Democracy

    Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies

    Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish anti-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • War and Punishment

    Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

    by Mikhail Zygar ...
    **A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023From “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 Ukraine, providing an unprecedented overview of the war for Ukrainian independence that affects us all.**As soon as the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Scottish Fairy And Folk Tales

    Scottish Fairy and Folk Talesby Sir George DouglasTreasury of fanciful, picturesque narratives—assembled by noted folklorist and recounted in their native vernacular—tell of brownies, kelpies, mermen and other supernatural creatures that assist, annoy and otherwise meddle in the lives of simple Scottish country folk. A delightful collection of imaginative and entertaining nursery and fairy tales, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

    In 1202, zealous Western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by the shrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on Constantinople, wreaking terrible devastation. The crusaders spared no one: They raped and massacred thousands, plundered churches, and torched the lavish city. By ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Animal Farm: Study Guide

    Animal Farm, George Orwell, Study Review Guide

    Series series Total Class Notes Study Guides
    Don't want to read the actual book? Tired of reading super long reviews? This new study guide is perfect for you!! This study guide provides a short and concise review guide of Animal Farm by George Orwell. The guide includes:   ·         A short summary of the entire novel ·         The major themes and their relationship to the storyline ·         A character guide with brief det... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Fracture Zone

    My Return to the Balkans

    A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It May Continue For Years To ComeThe vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rife with discord, both cultural and topographical. And, as Simon Winchester superbly demonstrates in this intimate portrait of the region, much of the political strife of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Haunted Land

    Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Uncivil Society

    1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment

    Series Book 32 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies–East ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians

    Ebook edition of Philip Marsden’s classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres.After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded a civilization and underwent a diaspora that ... Read more

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  • The Angel Makers

    Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring

    The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other—a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men.The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses—village wives, mothers, and daughters—was to come to the shocking realization that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Operation Dragon

    Inside the Kremlin's Secret War on America

    Former Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey and former Romanian acting spy chief Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, who was granted political asylum in the U.S. in 1978, describe why Russia remains an extremely dangerous force in the world, and they finally and definitively put to rest the question of who killed President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.All evidence points to the fact that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Campaigns of World War II: The Eastern Front

    Series series Campaigns of World War II
    The conflict on the Eastern Front in World War II was colossal in both scale and intensity, as the two infamous dictators of the twentieth century Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin vied for supremacy in Eastern Europe. On 22 June 1941 it was Hitler's fateful decision to launch the largest invasion ever seen, Operation Barbarossa, when 138 German divisions attacked the Soviet Union. Four years later, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • In Europe's Shadow

    Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

    **“Sweeping and replete with alluring detail . . . [a] haunting yet ultimately optimistic examination of the human condition as found in Romania.”—Alison Smale, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Un risc asumat

    Prin responsabilităţile pe care le-am avut în conducerea contraspionajului român am fost nu doar un simplu contemplator al evoluţiilor de suprafaţă, ci unul dintre puţinii care au cunoscut acţiunile subterane desfăşurate concertat de forţe, altădată duşmane, pentru a pune capăt unui sistem politic în Europa (fără îndoială că acţiunea nu s-a încheiat şi va continua şi pe celelalte continente). Ca ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Apple of Discord

    The "Hungarian Factor" in Austro-Serbian Relations, 1867-1881

    by Ian D. Armour ...
    Series series Central European Studies
    When seeking the origins of World War I, the chain of events in the late nineteenth century that led to the breakdown of relations between Austria-Hungary and Serbia and facilitated the rise of an aggressive Serbian nationalism needs to be understood. This book focuses on the hitherto unexplored Hungarian influence on the Habsburg Monarchy's policy toward Serbia after the 1867 Ausgleich, and it ... Read more

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  • The apostle of freedom

    A portrait of Vasil Levsky against a background of nineteenth century Bulgaria.

    Vasil Levsky, whom the Bulgarians call the Apostle of Freedom, is Bulgaria's national hero; in the early 1870's he led an underground movement against the five-century-old Turkish occupation. A combination of Sir Galahad and Robin Hood, Vasil Levsky was an outlaw who outwitted his enemies and slipped through their fingers with a thousand tricks and disguises. He was a true nineteenth-century hero ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe

    by Adam Zamoyski ...
    The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.In 1920 the new Soviet state was a mess, following a brutal civil war, and the best way of ensuring its survival appeared to be to export the revolution to Germany, itself ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569�1999

    Modern nationalism in northeastern Europe has often led to violence and then reconciliation between nations with bloody pasts. In this fascinating book, Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of Polish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Belarusian nationhood over four centuries, discusses various atrocities (including the first account of the massive Ukrainian-Polish ethnic cleansings of the 1940s), and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Imperium

    Series series Vintage International
    Ryszard Kapuscinski's last book, The Soccer War -a revelation of the contemporary experience of war -- prompted John le Carre to call the author "the conjurer extraordinary of modern reportage." Now, in Imperium, Kapuscinski gives us a work of equal emotional force and evocative power: a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire in our time.He ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • From Peoples into Nations

    A History of Eastern Europe

    by John Connelly ...
    A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his vast and disparate possessions, but his action had the opposite effect, catalyzing the emergence of competing nationalisms among his Hungarian, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD