Eastern Europe
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Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
$17.95 Add to cartDuring World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredib
- Author: Mayer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: March 28 2011
- ISBN10: 098411131X
- Language: English
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Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
$17.00 Read more“The most authoritative account in English or any other language about how the war began.”–The Washington Post Book World. “An essential resource for anyone of the conflict.”–The New York Times Book… [more below]
- Author: Silber, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140262636
- Language: English
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The Balkans: A Short History
$17.00 Add to cartThroughout 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 Orthodox… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Mazower, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 081296621X
- Language: English
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Life Must Go on: The Remarkable Story of Sol Lurie, the Kovno Ghetto, and the Tragic Fate of Lithuania’s Jews
$29.95 Add to cartThe remarkable story of Sol Lurie, a child survivor of six concentration camps during the Holocaust, who continues to be a beacon of hope.
After a bucolic childhood in Kovno, Lithuania, Sol was just e- Author: Lurie, Bea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369295
- Language: English
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Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival
$18.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author of Collusion and The Snowden Files Luke Harding’s personal, frontline reporting on Russia’s harrowing invasion of Ukraine, the biggest news event of the year and an i… [more below]
- Author: Harding, Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0593685172
- Language: English
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Living in the Presence: A Personal Quest for the Baal Shem Tov
$49.99 Add to cartA rabbi’s lifelong journey to discover the source and inspiration of Hasidism.
As a student of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s at Jewish Theological Seminary sixty years ago, Burt Jacobson was moved to devote
- Author: Jacobson, Burt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 654
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1958972630
- Language: English
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The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
$22.99 Add to cartAn essential new history of Central Europe that “deftly unravels the strands of a long and complex past” (Wall Street Journal)
Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606345
- Language: English
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
$34.99 Read moreConnecting 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… [more below]
- Author: Abulafia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 019931599X
- Language: English
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The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
$35.00 Add to cart“Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the worl… [more below]
- Author: Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1541606167
- Language: English
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Blood, Dust and Snow: Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front, 1938-1943
$37.95 Read more‘The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our infantry came past him! That’s an old classic, p… [more below]
- Author: Schäfer, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1784388300
- Language: English
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A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II
$20.00 Read moreA 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… [more below]
- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 037572625X
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine: Volume 1: Armed Formations of the Donetsk People’s Republic, 2014-2022
$29.95 Read more“These volumes have provided greater clarity about the war, since the media’s reporting on the war has been, by necessity, lacking in important details. If one is interested in the background to the w… [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Crowther, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 191507066X
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine: Volume 3: Armed Formations of the Luhansk People’s Republic 2014-2022
$29.95 Read more“These volumes have provided greater clarity about the war, since the media’s reporting on the war has been, by necessity, lacking in important details. If one is interested in the background to the w… [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Crowther, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1804512176
- Language: English
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The Last Palace: Europe’s Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
$22.00 Read moreA 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 occupants
When Norman Eisen m- Author: Eisen, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0451495799
- Language: English
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Postcards from Absurdistan: Prague at the End of History
$88.33 Read moreA sweeping history of a twentieth-century Prague torn between fascism, communism, and democracy–with lessons for a world again threatened by dictatorship
Postcards from Absurdistan is a cultural hist- Author: Sayer, Derek
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 069118545X
- Language: English
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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams
$18.95 Read moreFrom 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 f
- Author: King, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0393342360
- Language: English
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Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe’s Ancient Gods
$34.95 Read moreT.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from both families, he found it hard to learn very much about
- Author: Kokoszka, T. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1803412852
- Language: English
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Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland
$21.00 Read moreUkraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia’s … [more below]
- Author: Schlögel, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1789146771
- Language: English
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Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War
$24.95 Read more“Nuanced, melancholy, sophisticated and gratifyingly intimate.”
Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world
-Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism- Author: Ishchenko, Volodymyr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 180429554X
- Language: English
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War in Ukraine: Volume 2: Russian Invasion, February 2022
$29.95 Read more“The reader will be hard pressed to find another book providing this sort of detailed information. It is liberally illustrated with battlefield photographs and good maps.” — Military Heritage Magazin… [more below]
- Series: Europe@war
- Author: Cooper, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1804512168
- Language: English
