Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Minsk (Belarus) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Estonia Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
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by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Lituania Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
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by Melanie Berry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Kraków, Poland.
The city of Kraków covers both banks of the Wisla (or Vistula) river. It is Poland's second largest city, with a population of 756,000 (1.4 million including surrounding communities).
Kraków...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Kraków (Poland) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section...
by Steven J. Zipperstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize
Separating historical fact from fantasy, an acclaimed historian retells the story of Kishinev, a riot that transformed the course of twentieth-century Jewish history.
So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke...
Turkish Awakening
A Personal Discovery of Modern Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Born in London to a Turkish mother and British father, Alev Scott moved to Istanbul to discover what it means to be Turkish in a country going through rapid political and social change, with an extraordinary past still linked to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and an ever more surprising present under the leadership...
Running Away to Home
Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia
"We can look at this in two ways," Jim wrote, always the pragmatist. "We can panic and scrap the whole idea. Or we can take this as a sign. They're saying the...
Final Witness
My journey from the Holocaust to Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
At the age of five, Zoltan Zinn-Collis was torn from his home in Slovakia and cast into the deepest horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. In Bergen-Belsen concentration camp he survived the inhuman brutality of the SS guards, the ravages of near starvation, disease, and squalor. All but one of his...
Me, Myself and Prague
An unreliable guide to Bohemia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
I tripped across the Charles Bridge just before first light, all alone apart from a sleepy pickpocket just clocking on for the morning shift, my heels clacking on the cobblestones, the early morning sky a beautiful deep blue.
Armed only with a romantic soul and a pressing need to escape her...
The Uskoks of Senj
Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century Adriatic
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
In this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands nominally under the control of the Habsburg Military Frontier in Croatia, who between the 1530s and the 1620s developed a community based...
Endgame
The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“Powerful… definitive… Rohde tells the Srebrenica story with all the shades of gray the truth demanded.” —The Washington Post
In 1996, at the height of the Bosnian wars, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor named David Rohde uncovered a horrifying story that became an...
Rescuing the Czar
Two Authentic Daries
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Rescuing the Czar
Two Authentic Daries
FOREWORD
ByW.E. Aughinbaugh, M.D., LL.B., LL.M.
Is the former Czar and his Imperial family still alive? There are millions of people in Europe and America who are asking this question.
European governments have considered the question of...
by M. Sükrü Hanioglu
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile....