Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
Collision of Empires
The War on the Eastern Front in 1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Although the myriad of alliances and suspicions that existed between the Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires in the early 20th century proved to be one of the primary triggers for the outbreak of the First World War, much of the actual fighting between these three nations has been largely...
Hiding in Plain Sight:
My Holocaust Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
After decades of concealing the full account of her experiences, Holocaust survivor Beatrice Sonders (Basia Gadzuik) writes her story of survival and courage in the face of the ultimate horrors.
Born in 1924 and growing up in the small town of David-Horodok, a village in eastern Poland, Basia...
The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine
Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi's Realist Prose
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
One of the most important realist novelists of nineteenth-century Ukraine, Ivan Nechui-Levyts'kyi was caricatured and then forgotten by a generation of literary modernists who rejected his aesthetic and ideological views. In The All-Encompassing Eye of Ukraine, Maxim Tarnawsky presents a thorough...
by Anthony Wayman
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The portrayal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War period was usually unflattering yet, following the death of Joseph Stalin, the Cold War might not have been quite so cold had a more balanced approach been adopted by the West as there was a genuine desire by the new administration for a better...
by Eva Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2007
In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she looks...
Forgotten Land
Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the...
by Charles Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
This short illustrated piece describes a trip from Teheran in Persia to Samarcand in today's Uzbekistan by an Eastern European disguised as an Osmanli Dervish.
The apostle of freedom
A portrait of Vasil Levsky against a background of nineteenth century Bulgaria.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
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...
Erased
Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in...
Bosnia's Million Bones
Solving the World's Greatest Forensic Puzzle
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The extraordinary story of how a team of international forensic scientists pioneered ground-breaking DNA technology to identify the bodies of thousands of victims of the Yugoslav Wars, and how their work is now giving justice to families from Iraq to Bosnia
What would it be like to be tasked...
Melchior Wankowicz
Poland’s Master of the Written Word
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In Melchior Wankowicz: Poland’s Master of the Written Word, Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm examines the life and writing of famous Polish writer Melchior Wankowicz, author of legendary work “The Battle of Monte Cassino”.
Acclaimed by his readers and critics alike, Melchior Wankowicz was...
Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the Early Cold War
Reconciliation, comradeship, confrontation, 1953-1957
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book provides a comprehensive insight into one of the key episodes of the Cold War – the process of reconciliation between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.
At the time, this process had shocked the World as much as the violent break-up of their relations did in 1948. This book provides...
by Henry Albinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2016
History of Moldova includes, Moldova Language, Moldova Religion, and Culture, Moldova Education, Moldova Health, and Welfare, Moldova Economy, Moldova Government, Moldova Foreign Relations, Moldova tourism, Moldova travel guideThe history of the republic of Moldova is the history of two different...
Memoirs of the Aksakov Family
A Sketch of Russian Rural Life, 70 years ago
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This masterpiece of creative autobiography, which has been universally recognized as a classic of Russian literature, describes the opening of Russia's eastern frontier in the steppes of Bashkiria.
About the Author
Acclaimed for his realistic prose, Sergei Aksakov (1791–1859) captured...