Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
ROAD-TRIP EN 3 SEMAINES : DE PARIS AU MONTÉNÉGRO !
En 3 semaines, pour un Paris/Kotor/Paris, vous avalerez les 4000 km de ce périple sans (presque) vous en rendre compte !
Language: French
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Vacances insolites : Road-Trip en Europe du Sud-Est
En 3 semaines, pour un Paris/Kotor/Paris, vous avalerez les 4000 km de ce périple sans (presque) vous en rendre compte !
De Paris, cap à l’est, avec la découverte de l’Allemagne, et notamment Stuttgart...
L’art russe
( Edition intégrale ) illustré - annoté
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Publiée initialement en 1877, cette histoire classique de l’art russe suit son évolution des origines à l’époque moderne, dans une perspective nationale qui souligne ce qui fait la spécificité et la beauté d’une tradition artistique.
Il est des peuples auxquels on accorde tout,...
L’art russe
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Publiée initialement en 1877, cette histoire classique de l’art russe suit son évolution des origines à l’époque moderne, dans une perspective nationale qui souligne ce qui fait la spécificité et la beauté d’une tradition artistique.
Il est des peuples auxquels on accorde tout,...
Cracóvia e sua região
Descubra uma cidade linda, cheia de história e cultura!
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Você quer conhecer a história em cada esquina das ruas?
Então… Bem-vindo a Cracóvia, na Polônia,, no coração da Europa Central, uma das mais belas cidades do velho continente!
Você quer se surpreender com paisagens magníficas e fazer parte dessa beleza?
Então não hesite: Cracóvia...
Lost in Translation
A Life in a New Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)
The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."
Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation:...
Demyansk 1942–43
The frozen fortress
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
The fighting around the town of Demyansk was one of the longest encirclement battles on the Eastern Front during World War II, stretching from February 1942 to February 1943. Originally, the German 16. Armee occupied Demyansk in the autumn of 1941 because it was key terrain that would be used as a...
Kharkov 1942
The Wehrmacht strikes back
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
After failing to finish off the German Army in the 1941/42 Winter Counteroffensive Stalin directed the Red Army to conduct a powerful blow in one sector of the Eastern Front in order to disrupt German plans. The sector chosen was Kharkov. Under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, the Stavka's remaining reserves...
Together and Apart in Brzezany
Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
... by reconstructing the history/experience of Brzezany in Jewish, Ukrainian, and Polish memories [Redlich] has produced a beautiful parallel narrative of a world that was lost three times over.... a truly wonderful achievement." —Jan T. Gross, author of Neighbors
Shimon Redlich draws on...
The Woman from Hamburg
and Other True Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding...
1915 Diary of S. An-sky
A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
S. An-sky was by the time of the First World War a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and an ethnographer who pioneered the collection of Jewish folklore in Russia's Pale of Settlement. In 1915, An-sky took on the assignment of providing aid and relief to Jewish civilians trapped under Russian...
by Alfred J. Rieber
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
This is a major new study of the successor states that emerged in the wake of the collapse of the great Russian, Habsburg, Iranian, Ottoman and Qing Empires and of the expansionist powers who renewed their struggle over the Eurasian borderlands through to the end of the Second World War. Surveying...
by Zygmunt Miloszewski
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Bestselling young star of Polish fiction, published for the first time in English. 2. The novel is the winner of “The High Calibre Award” for best Polish crime novel of 2007. 3. A well crafted novel full of dark humour with a world-weary hero suffering from bureaucratic exhaustion and marital ennui....
Finland at War
The Winter War 1939–40
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2015
The story of the 'Winter War' between Finland and Soviet Russia is a dramatic David versus Goliath encounter. When close to half a million Soviet troops poured into Finland in 1939 it was expected that Finnish defences would collapse in a matter of weeks. But they held firm. The Finns not only survived...
by Russell Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The ability to advance rapidly over sometimes difficult terrain was a key part of the Warsaw Pact's strategy. The Eastern European nations which formed this historic alliance wanted to be able to move quickly and effectively so they didn't give their enemies an advantage.
The vital tools which...