Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
New Perspectives on Yugoslavia
Key Issues and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Nearly twenty years after it ceased to exist as a multinational federation, Yugoslavia still has the power to provoke controversy and debate. Bringing together contributions from twelve of the leading scholars of modern and contemporary South East Europe, this volume explores the history of Yugoslavia...
Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The fascinating history of a Baltic empire’s dominance and decline—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms
Vanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt...
Blood Ties
Religion, Violence and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878–1908
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
The region that is today Macedonia was long the heart of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. It was home to a complex mix of peoples and faiths who had for hundreds of years lived together in relative peace. To be sure, these people were no strangers to coercive violence and various forms of depredations...
Love and Science
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Long before he became one of the world's most celebrated immunologists, Jan Vilcek began life in Slovakia as the child of Jewish parents at a time when Jews were being exterminated all across Europe. He owes his and his mother’s survival to the courage of brave people and good luck. As a young man...
Three Minutes in Poland
Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
When Glenn Kurtz stumbles upon an old family film in his parents' closet in Florida, he has no inkling of its historical significance or of the impact it will have on his life. The film, shot long ago by his grandfather on a sightseeing trip to Europe, includes shaky footage of Paris and the Swiss...
The Great Powers and Poland
From Versailles to Yalta
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This definitive study provides a comprehensive diplomatic history of Poland during the most seminal period in its existence, when its destiny lay in the hands of France, Great Britain, and the United States. Although sovereign in principle, Poland was little more than an object of the Great Powers’...
by Joseph Wechsberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Homecoming by Joseph Wechsberg (24,000 words, 24 illustrations)
Published by Knopf in 1946 as an expanded version of a two-part New Yorker article.
Joseph Wechsberg and his wife left Czechoslovakia for America in 1938. Sent with the US Army to liberate Europe from the Nazis, Wechsberg...
The Formation of Turkey
The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power.
Turkey forms a historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has played a pivotal role throughout history. The...
In Wartime
Stories from Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From one of the finest journalists of our time comes a definitive, boots-on-the-ground dispatch from the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine.
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Ever since Ukraine’s violent 2014 revolution, followed by Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the country has been at war. Misinformation reigns, more...
by James Dargan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Against the all-conquering Grand Duchy of Muscovy, can the city-state of Novgorod save itself from total annihilation and bring the land of the Rus towards the West?
Medieval Russia, 1470: With Muscovy gaining hegemony in the Russian lands, Novgorod is fearful. Having miraculously defeated...
King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther
The Reformation before Confessionalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
The first major study of the early Reformation and the Polish monarchy for over a century, this volume asks why Crown and church in the reign of King Sigismund I (1506-1548) did not persecute Lutherans. It offers a new narrative of Luther's dramatic impact on this monarchy — which saw violent urban...
by Leitch Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Elibron Classics. Replica of 1836 edition by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, London.
In 1835 Leitch Ritchie (1800–1865) a Scottish novelist and journalist took a trip to Russia.
He hoped to become acquainted with Modern Russia, and to be enabled to form some idea of the...
by Rick Steves, Honza Vihan
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Rick Steves' Pocket guidebooks truly are a tour guide in your pocket.” Each colorful, compact book includes Rick's advice for prioritizing your time, whether you're spending 1 or 7 days in a city. Everything a busy traveler needs is easy to access: a neighborhood overview, city walks and tours,...
by Tony Hawks
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
It doesn't take much - "£100 is usually sufficient" - to persuade Tony Hawks to take off on notoriously bizarre and hilarious adventures in response to a bet. And so it is, a pointless argument with a friend concludes in a bet - that Tony can't beat all eleven members of the Moldovan soccer...