Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
Lost Years
Memories of my forgotten homeland
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Margarete traces her long journey from childhood in East Prussia, to the years in Russian prison camps, and her new beginning in Canada. A remarkable story of insight, courage, inspiration, love and forgiveness.
"I believe that you must have an understanding of the past...
Border Crossings
Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The captivating, tender memoir of Charles Novacek, a Czechoslovakian whose idyllic childhood exploring the Tatra Mountains was shattered by the Nazi occupation of his homeland. He spent his youth defending his neighbors, his family, and his country, first from the Nazi atrocities of World War II...
by Eugene Schuyler
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This sketch of Tolstoy concentrates on the period of the later part of the 1860's, written twenty years after Schuyler, Tolstoy's first translator, met the Count. A good background piece.
Carnet du Soldat
Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.
Language: French
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Extrait : Tu es soldat, on t’a appris à tirer, à te servir de la baïonnette, à marcher, on t’a appris la gymnastique et la « littérature », on t’a conduit aux exercices et aux revues, peut-être même as-tu été à la guerre, as-tu combattu les Turcs et les Chinois, en te conformant...
by Agnes Heller
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
A Short History of My Philosophy is an autobiographic account of Agnes Heller's intellectual and academic career. While the narration mainly traces the development of ideas, we also learn how they occurred in the context of challenging life circumstances. Agnes Heller presents the life of her ideas...
The Whistleblower
Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world travel, and the chance to help rebuild a war-torn country sounded like the perfect job. Bolkovac...
The Life of Josef Šálek
A Biographical History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
The life story of Josef Šálek, as remembered by his grandson. Born in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary, in 1892, Šálek's lifetime spanned both World Wars and the transformation of what is now the Czech Republic. What may have been simple small-town life became extraordinary when set against...
by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Julius Evola
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu was the founder and leader of the Legion of St. Michael the Archangel, otherwise known as the Iron Guard, in Romania between 1927 and 1938. While many of the revolutionary nationalist movements of the period are long forgotten, Codreanu's movement continues to be studied today....
My Memoirs
Life’s Journey through WWII and Various Historical Events of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The first part of the book reflects the context of life within the totalitarian systems of Communism and Nazism. The author witnessed the mass deportations under Communism and mass executions of Jews, known as the Holocaust, and other tragic events during WWII, which left their mark on our consciousness....
Peter de Grote
een biografie
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Met de Pulitzerprijs bekroonde biografie van Peter de Grote Dit is de beste en meest uitvoerige biografie over de Russische tsaar Peter de Grote die tot op heden is verschenen. Robert K. Massie toont Peter in zijn jonge jaren en schetst zijn strijd om de macht en zijn pogingen om Rusland militair,...
The Hidden Pope
The Untold Story of a Lifelong Friendship That Changed the Relationship Between Catholics and Jews
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
From a PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author: The true story of Pope John Paul II, his Jewish childhood friend, and a milestone in religious history.
In October 1978, Karol Wojtyla, Polish Archbishop of Krakow, became Pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian pontiff in 455 years. He had a mission...
Queen and Consort: Elizabeth and Philip
60 Years of Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
"Princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact" -- so said the nineteenth-century writer Walter Bagehot. In 2007, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary. This love story of the world's most famous couple presents...
by Tracy Dennison
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Russian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. In this book, Tracy Dennison shows how Russian society looked from below, and finds nothing like the collective, redistributive and market-averse...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Best Stories of the 1914 European War