Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
by Robert Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Popular Romances of the West of England
by Robert Hunt
Or the drolls, traditions and superstitions of Old Cornwall. The romances collected in this volume give the tourist the means of restoring the giants and the fairies to their native haunts. None of the legends found within were invented by the author. They were all gathered in their native homes, more than a century previously.
Prague in Danger
The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia's great capital during the Nazi Protectorate
With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter Demetz focuses on just six short years—a tormented,...
by Agata Tuszynska
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941–summer 1942) . . . and her piano...
The Crooked Mirror
A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A lyrical literary memoir that explores the exhilarating, discomforting, and ultimately healing process of Polish-Jewish reconciliation taking place in Poland today
Although an estimated 80 percent of American Jews are of Polish descent, many in the postwar generation and those born later know...
by Vlastá Schönová
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Acting in Terezín by Vlastá Schönová, translated from the Czech and introduced by Helen Epstein; with an Afterword by Marsha L. Rozenblit (17,000 words)
An unusual memoir by a professional actress in Ghetto Theresienstadt. Vlasta Schönová, or Vava as she was known, began her theater career...
The Five
A Novel of Jewish Life in Turn-of-the-Century Odessa
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
"The beginning of this tale of bygone days in Odessa dates to the dawn of the twentieth century. At that time we used to refer to the first years of this period as the 'springtime,' meaning a social and political awakening. For my generation, these years also coincided with our own personal springtime,...
Prague Winter
A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Drawing on her own memory, her parents’ written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and newly-available documents, former US Secretary of State and New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Albright recounts a tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring.
Before she turned twelve,...
The Holocaust by Bullets
A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
The poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews
Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII....
Country of Ash
A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 19391945
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Witness to many war atrocities and one of the few survivors of both the Lodz and Warsaw ghettos, Edward Reicher’s testimony has been cited in many scholarly works, but this is the first time English-speaking readers will have access to his complete and uniquely chilling account. Forced to join the...
The Shadow of Death
The Holocaust in Lithuania
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
" Holocaust survivor Harry Gordon recalls in brutal detail the anguished years of his youth, a youth spent struggling to survive in a Lithuanian concentration camp. A memoir about hope and resilience, The Shadow of Death describes the invasion of Kovno by the Red Army and the impact of Soviet...
by Daniel Himmel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2013
Born on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains in 1929, author Dan Himmel’s father soon joined the line of the condemned at the Birkenau death camp at the tender age of 15. He survived transfer to several different camps, including the dreaded Dora camp, from which few survived, and a death march,...
by Paul Vantoch
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
When Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, the fate of Paul Vantoch’s Jewish father hung in the balance. To save the family business, Eugen Vantoch divorced his wife and went into hiding only to see, after liberation from the Nazis, Czechoslovakia fall under Stalin’s harsh Communist doctrine.Paul...
Berlin Calling
A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Berlin: Interest in Berlin remains extremely high as one of the great cutting-edge cultural centers of the world.
First of its kind: There is no English-language book on Berlin that tells the city’s story through the subcultures of the 1980s and 1990s.
Veteran reporter: Hockenos writes...
by M.B.B. Biskupski
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. They often portrayed the combatants in very simple terms: Americans and their allies were heroes, and everyone else was a villain. Norway, France, Czechoslovakia, and England...