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In the Eye of the Storm: Political, Diplomatic and Military Struggle for Croatian Independence by Ante Gugo 9781535118682
RRP: $31.48$29.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535118682Author Michael DurgoFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume 1: The Origins to 1795 by Norman Davies
RRP: $101.83$101.72This new edition of Norman Davies's classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century. The writing of Polish history, like Poland itself, has frequently... -
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography by Gregor von Rezzori
RRP: $27.28$19.09The Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past... -
The Politics of Genocide - The Holocaust in Hungary by Randolph Braham
RRP: $262.50$207.19The third revised and updated edition of this comprehensive two-volume history by one of the world's leading experts on the Holocaust provides unparalleled perspective on the destruction of Hungarian Jewry during the Nazi era. A critical component of any... -
Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution by Victor Verney
RRP: $31.48$23.00Born in 1360, Jan Zizka was a formidable figure whose life and military career was set amidst the whirlwind of monumental revolutions - military, religious, political and social - that engulfed medieval Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The leader... -
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania by Majlinda Nishku 9781350360747
RRP: $35.68$29.51Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the Soviet Union in 1956. However, in one country - Albania -... -
Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17 by Prit Buttar
RRP: $35.68$28.48Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-Hungarian commands held high hopes for 1916. After the success of the 1915 Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, which... -
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
RRP: $20.98$13.69"Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating . . . a lovely book" Peter FrankopanWhen did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it... -
The Sword Behind the Shield: A Combat History of the German Efforts to Relieve Budapest 1945 - Operation 'Konrad' I, III, III by Norbert Szamveber 9781914059247
$80.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059247Author Norbert SzamveberFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Eastern Front 1914-1917 by Norman Stone
RRP: $27.28$19.09A groundbreaking historical study, Norman Stone's The Eastern Front 1914-1917 was the very first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West. In this now-classic history he dispels the myths surrounding... -
Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930-1936 by Michael Jabara Carley 9781487544416
RRP: $138.60$131.15Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin's Gamble aims to create a historical narrative of the relations of the USSR with Britain, France, the United States, Poland, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Romania during the... -
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz
RRP: $29.38$20.16A towering achievement in European literature, Pan Tadeusz is the central work of the Polish literary canon, heralded for its lovingly detailed recreation of a bygone world. The traditions of the Polish gentry and the social and natural landscape of the... -
The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in World War II by Adam Zamoyski 9781848841963
RRP: $31.48$23.00By the beginning of 1941 there was a fully fledged Polish Air Force operating alongside the RAF. With 14 Squadrons it was larger than any other of the Air Force from Nazi-occupied Europe that had joined the Allies. Over 17,000 men and women passed... -
Collision of Empires by Prit Buttar
RRP: $35.68$26.63Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was undoubtedly the myriad alliances and suspicions that existed between the... -
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire by Jonathan Miles
RRP: $31.48$23.84'This extraordinary book brings to life an astonishing place. Beautiful prose renders brutality vivid' The Times - BOOK OF THE WEEK From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg - one of the most magical, menacing and... -
The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians by Philip Marsden 9780008127435 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$13.86A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden's classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres. After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th... -
The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians by Philip Marsden 9780008127435
RRP: $20.98$15.92A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden's classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres. After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th... -
The Ravine: A family, a photograph, a Holocaust massacre revealed by Wendy Lower
RRP: $20.98$14.93A strikingly original book about a terrible photograph - an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family in Ukraine. A Times Book of the Year 'A very rare kind of picture... To the murdered others, this... -
A Memoir Of The Warsaw Uprising by Miron Bialoszewski
RRP: $35.68$25.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176658Author Madeline LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Slavic Myths by Ema Lakinska
RRP: $18.88$13.76With a new introduction, this collection of Slavic tales is based on the oral storytelling traditions of the peoples of Eastern Europe, from the Polish and the Slovaks to the Macedonians, Czechs and Serbians, with roots in pagan folklore and influenced... -
Yugoslav Armies 1941-45 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: $25.18$17.70In March 1941, an anti-German coup in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia prompted Hitler to order an invasion using allied Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Romanian forces. Operation Marita was an invasion of Yugoslavia and simultaneously Greece. At the same... -
The Border - A Journey Around Russia: SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 by Erika Fatland 9780857057815
RRP: $63.00$41.58A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the... -
Under the Devil's Eye: The British Military Experience in Macedonia 1915 - 1918 by Simon Moody
RRP: $31.48$24.38The authors have researched the Salonika Campaign in every detail, from the arrival of the first British troops in 1915 to final victory. During this period large numbers of British and allied troops were tied up in the strategically vital Balkans. ... -
The House with the Stained-Glass Window by Zanna Sloniowska
RRP: $20.98$14.28"Zanna Sloniowska writes beautifully; with empathy, sensitivity, and with real political impact . . . an important new voice in Polish literature" OLGA TOKARCZUK, Nobel Prize-winning author of Flights"Remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city... -
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto by Dawid Sierakowiak 9780195122855
RRP: $38.83$31.23"In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us."... -
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood by Demick, Barbara 9780812982763
RRP: $42.00$26.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982763Author Barbara DemickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King
RRP: $31.48$23.16From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of... -
Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914 by Serhiy Bilenky 9780228017578
RRP: $81.90$71.65When the powers of Europe were at their prime, present-day Ukraine was divided between the Austrian and Russian empires, each imposing different political, social, and cultural models on its subjects. This inevitably led to great diversity in the lives... -
History of Russia: A Captivating Guide to Russian History, Ivan the Terrible, The Russian Revolution and Cambridge Five by Captivating History 9781950922130
RRP: $41.94$29.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922130Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Madness Visible: A Memoir of War by Janine Di Giovanni 9780375724558
RRP: $39.90$28.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375724558Author Janine di GiovanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Modern Times: The Biography of a Hungarian-Jewish Family by Stephen Pogany 9780993189647
RRP: $21.00$18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993189647Author Stephen PoganyFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint BrandramPublisher BrandramWeight(grams) 308g -
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914 by Alexander Morrison
RRP: $167.98$153.64The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar's domains... -
Mapping the Second World War: The history of the war through maps from 1939 to 1945 by Peter Chasseaud
RRP: $63.00$43.60Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert... -
Kosovo: a Short History by Noel Malcolm 9781509893591
RRP: $42.00$30.85By the early-1980s Kosovo had reached a state of permanent crisis and military occupation, and it became the main focus for the revival of Serbian nationalism. This book traces the history of Kosovo, examining the Yugoslavian conflict, and the part... -
Eastern Front Sniper: The Life of Matth us Hetzenauer by Kaltenegger, Roland 9781784387945
RRP: $31.48$23.00Eastern Front Sniper is a long overdue and comprehensive biography of one of World War II's most accomplished snipers. Math us Hetzenauer, the son of a Tyrolean peasant family, was born in December 1924. He was drafted into the Mountain Reserve... -
The Oxford History of the Third Reich by Robert Gellately 9780192886835
RRP: $31.48$23.00Histories you can trust. At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic... -
Allies in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of British POWs Held Captive in the Nazis' Most Infamous Death Camp by Duncan Little 9781905570218
RRP: $20.98$14.93The huge Auschwitz camp in Poland, the Third Reich's most gruesome death camp, contained not only the infamous concentration camp - whose horrors are well-documented - but also a prisoner-of-war facility that housed British inmates. Situated close enough... -
Troubled Water: A Journey around the Black Sea by Jens Muhling 9781914982019
RRP: $23.08$16.19Fringing the Black Sea are a kaleidoscope of countries, some centuries old and others emerging only after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Through the stories of the people he meets there, Jens Muhling seeks to paint a picture of this cauldron of... -
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk 9781802062915
RRP: $27.28$19.09'The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to face a shameless empire intent on annihilating them' Ellena SavageA selection of Ukraine's leading writers... -
Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order by Martin 9780671747237
$68.40Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780671747237Author MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 790gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm * 50mm