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Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski 9780861547326
RRP: £10.99£7.38An epic history of the 'other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. 'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the... -
Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street by Barbara Demick 9781847084118
RRP: £9.99£6.70For four centuries, Logavina Street was a quiet residential road in a city known for its ethnic tolerance and cosmopolitan charm. Muslims, Christians, Serbs and Croats lived easily together, sharing an identity as Bosnians. Then the war tore their lives... -
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went back to by Bernard Wasserstein 9781802061406
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In... -
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd 9780241506851
RRP: £30.00£21.95'The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading' Margaret Macmillan, Financial TimesThe definitive history of the Eastern Front in the... -
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer 9780141999340
RRP: £12.99£9.09AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * TELEGRAPH * SPECTATOR * PROSPECT'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand... -
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West by Catherine Belton
RRP: £10.99£7.25THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An outstanding expose of Putin and his criminal pals ... [A] long-awaited, must read book' SUNDAY TIMES 'Books about modern Russia abound ... Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is the... -
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
RRP: £14.99£10.20THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Life-filled and life-affirming history, steeped in romance and written with verve' GUARDIAN'Richly entertaining and impeccably researched' Peter FrankopanIstanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and... -
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer
RRP: £25.00£16.53AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * TELEGRAPH * SPECTATOR * PROSPECT'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand... -
Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War by Tim Marshall
RRP: £9.99£6.65A gripping eyewitness account of a major 20th-century military conflict by the UK's most popular writer on geopolitics; The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its... -
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY'An indispensable guide to the tragic history of a great European nation' Sunday Telegraph'This is present-minded history at its most urgent. Anyone wanting to... -
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle by Iain MacGregor
RRP: £12.99£7.51'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative' - James Holland'The sheer brutal intimacy of his descriptions of the fighting are extraordinary'... -
The Road of Slaughter: The Latvian 15th SS Division in Pomerania, January-March 1945 by Vincent Hunt 9781804512593
£35.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512593Author Vincent HuntFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon
RRP: £12.99£9.09A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen. 'A witty and page-turning narrative full of grotesque characters' Misha Glenny 'Will leave you astonished, exhausted and... -
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins
RRP: £12.99£9.09Discover the history of Europe - from the Dark Ages to present day - by the author of the bestselling A Short History of EnglandEurope is an astonishingly successful place. But it would take volumes to tell its story, right? Wrong. From warring peoples... -
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe by Martyn Rady
RRP: £35.00£25.29'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book' Peter Frankopan, Spectator'Quirkily original but also scholarly and authoritative, to be read for pleasure and serious reflection' Telegraph*The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting... -
Poland: A history by Adam Zamoyski 9780007556212
RRP: £12.99£8.48Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation. ... -
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War by Philip Oltermann
RRP: £10.99£7.32The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.'Engrossing.' Observer'Remarkable.' The Times'Magnificent.' Phillipe Sands'Gripping.' Literary Review'A history so outlandish and... -
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon 9780330515795
RRP: £9.99£6.87'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon's masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasThe World and All That It Holds is the epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself.As the... -
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction by Orlando Figes
RRP: £25.00£19.22Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.'A modern masterpiece' Andrew MarrOpening with a panorama of Russian society, from the... -
The Green Shirts and the Others by Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera 9781592110940
RRP: £31.50£24.53This book is a newly revised edition of Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera's classic work The Green Shirts and the Others published by the Hoover Institution Press in 1970. This book is the standard work in English on the history of fascism in Romania and Hungary... -
War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict by Medea Benjamin
RRP: £12.99£8.63Russia's brutal February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has attracted widespread condemnation across the West. Government and media circles present the conflict as a simple dichotomy between an evil empire and an innocent victim. In this concise, accessible... -
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok
RRP: £14.99£13.03A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union-showing how Gorbachev's misguided reforms led to its demise "A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart."-Rodric Braithwaite, Financial Times "[A] masterly analysis."-Joshua... -
A Ukrainian Christmas by Yaroslav Hrytsak
RRP: £16.99£11.54'A wonderful little book of recipes and stories' - NIGELLA LAWSON'History, stories, recipes and beautiful illustrations' - OLIA HERCULES'Christmas brings the indestructibility of hope in times of the greatest hopelessness. As long as we celebrate this... -
The Witches of St. Petersburg by Imogen Edwards-Jones
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Sumptuous, sexy and haunting. I adored this novel' SANTA MONTEFIORE. Starving men and women stalk the streets of St. Petersburg. Revolution is brewing. Yet in the Imperial court of Nicholas II and the lavish palaces of the aristocracy, there is... -
War Journal: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine by Andrey Kurkov
RRP: £16.99£9.58'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary' Helen Davies, The TimesThis journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov's... -
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023 by Andrey Kurkov 9781529427837
RRP: £9.99£6.80"Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before" Sunday Times"Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European"A Ukrainian Murakami" GuardianA love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith
RRP: £20.00£14.29Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio This is the biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first... -
From Stalin to Mao: Albania and the Socialist World by Elidor Mehilli
RRP: £42.00£36.38Elidor Mehilli has produced a groundbreaking history of communist Albania that illuminates one of Europe's longest but least understood dictatorships. From Stalin to Mao, which is informed throughout by Mehilli's unprecedented access to previously... -
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95 by Joe Sacco
RRP: £18.99£14.01In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which had teetered on the brink of obliteration for three and a half years. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb... -
Blood, Dust & Snow: Diaries of a Panzer Commander in Germany and on the Eastern Front by Robin Schafer
RRP: £24.99£18.61'The infantry is only a few metres ahead of us when suddenly, on the left of our tank, a Russian stands up. The swine had pretended to be dead when our infantry came past him! That's an old classic, pretending to be dead and then firing from the rear... -
DK Eyewitness Cyprus by DK
RRP: £13.99£9.75The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this ancient island.Take a tour of UNESCO World Heritage-listed churches of the Troodos mountains, enjoy pristine... -
The Guns of August: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £12.99£9.09Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war.War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . .Barbara... -
More than a Grain of Truth: The official true story behind the film Mr. Jones, starring James Norton by Margaret Siriol Colley 9781839014765
RRP: £16.99£13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839014765Author Margaret Siriol ColleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Lume BooksPublisher Lume BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov 9781800699090
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Uplifting and utterly defiant' Matt Nixson, Daily Express 'Immediate and important ... This is an insider's account of how an ordinary life became extraordinary' Helen Davies, The Times'At first we did not understand what war was. You can't understand... -
The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus: 2015 by Lesley Blanch 9780993092725
£20.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993092725Author Lesley BlanchFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Book Blast ePublishingPublisher Book Blast ePublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)... -
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine by Robert Conquest
RRP: £20.00£14.29Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written... -
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £14.99£9.88Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizesIn 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With... -
Bread And Ashes: A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia by Tony Anderson
RRP: £12.99£9.09Tony Anderson set out in the summer of 1998 to walk through Georgia. He wanted particularly to visit the Georgian mountain tribes - Tush, Khevsurs, Ratchuelians and Svans - to discover if they shared a common mountain culture, and to test the old idea of... -
The Death of Yugoslavia by Allan Little
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered from a historical rather than a political or sociological point of view.Book InformationISBN 9780140261684Author Allan... -
Prague Stories by Richard Bassett
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends,...