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The Battle for Kyiv: The Fight for Ukraine s Capital by Christopher A Lawrence 9781399048484
RRP: $42.00$37.00On 24 February 2022, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, unleashed an attack on Ukraine that developed into the most significant conflict in Europe since the Second World War. Fought over the same ground that the Germans and the Soviet Union battled... -
Havel: A Life by Michael Zantovsky
RRP: $42.00$28.27This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Vaclav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Havel: iconoclast and philosopher king, an internationally... -
Inhuman Land: Searching for the Truth in Soviet Russia, 1941-1942 by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372563Author Antonia Lloyd-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright
RRP: $23.08$15.23By turns harrowing and inspiring, "Prague Winter" is Madeleine Albright's account of her early life from 1937 to 1948, a dozen years that witnessed the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, World War II, the Holocaust, the defeat of fascism, the rise of... -
Medieval Eastern Europe, 500-1300: A Reader by Florin Curta 9781487544904
RRP: $73.50$64.55Filling a major gap in medieval studies, Medieval Eastern Europe is the first collection of primary sources in English translation covering the history of the whole eastern region of the European continent between 500 and 1300. Florin Curta, a leading... -
A Concise History of Albania by Bernd J. Fischer
RRP: $48.28$41.08A Concise History of Albania charts the history of Albania and its people, within their Balkan and European contexts. It shows the country's journey from its ancient past, still shrouded in mystery and controversy, through its difficult transition from a... -
Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus' Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption by Ion Mihai Pacepa 9780895267467
RRP: $41.98$28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895267467Author Ion Mihai PacepaFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Regnery Gateway Inc.,U.S.Publisher Regnery Gateway Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer 9781529411461
RRP: $39.88$26.78"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph"A moving evocation of the 'everyday terror' systematically perpetrated over 41 years of Albanian communism . . . An illuminating... -
Moldova: A History by Rebecca Haynes
RRP: $48.28$47.10Moldova is a new nation-state with a long history. Despite only recently gaining independence, following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova's roots stretch all the way back to the Principality of Moldavia, established in 1359. After centuries... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin 9781487558253
RRP: $50.38$43.76In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
Russia's Road to War with Ukraine: Invasion amidst the ashes of empires by Samir Puri 9781785907708
RRP: $42.00$30.41When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many in the West were left stunned at his act of brutal imperialism. To those who had been paying attention, however, the warning signs of the bloodshed and slaughter to come had been there for... -
A Concise History of Russia by Paul Bushkovitch 9780521543231
RRP: $52.48$41.06Accessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of... -
The Austrian Revolution by Otto Bauer 9781642591620
RRP: $52.48$40.49This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer's magisterial work -- available in English for the first time in full -- charts the evolution... -
Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy by Julian Hayes 9781472146540
RRP: $52.50$30.79The true story behind the 2023 ITV series, STONEHOUSE, starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes. 'An extraordinary life . . . a vivid account' Telegraph'Completely absorbing' CAROL ANN LEE, author of The Murders at White House Farm and A Passion For... -
Albania in a Nutshell: A Brief History and Chronology of Events by Professor Robert Elsie 9781508511946
RRP: $18.90$15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508511946Author Professor Robert ElsieFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith 9780198819998
RRP: $27.28$19.09This is a 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 purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have... -
The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe by Timothy Snyder
$27.89Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of his... -
Eastern Front Sniper by Roland Kaltenegger 9781784382162
RRP: $41.98$29.99Eastern 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... -
Dracula's Wars: Vlad the Impaler and his Rivals by James Waterson 9780750992404
RRP: $27.28$20.20The real Dracula was far from Bram Stoker's well-mannered aristocrat. Better known as Vlad the Impaler, he was named for his favoured execution method: running a spear through his victim's lower body, then standing them upright so it skewered their vital... -
Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson
$60.10When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed towns and cities across the country, and fifty divisions of the Wehrmacht crossed the border. Yet only two decades... -
Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40 by Vesa Nenye
RRP: $52.50$39.10The story of the 'Winter War' between Finland and Soviet Russia is a dramatic David versus Goliath encounter. When close to half a million Soviet troops poured into Finland in 1939 it was expected that Finnish defences would collapse in a matter of... -
The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, Fifth Edition by Andrew Wilson
RRP: $31.48$27.36As in many postcommunist states, politics in Ukraine revolves around the issue of national identity. Ukrainian nationalists see themselves as one of the world's oldest and most civilized peoples, as "older brothers" to the younger Russian culture.Yet... -
The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania: Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569 by Robert I. Frost
RRP: $92.38$72.22The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700. For 300 years the greatest power in Eastern Europe was the union between the kingdom of Poland and the grand... -
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky 9780743284264
RRP: $42.00$29.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743284264Author Edvard RadzinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941-45 by Vesa Nenye
RRP: $52.50$39.10The follow-up to Finland at War: The Winter War, this is the astonishing David and Goliath story of Finland's military history during World War II as, heavily outnumbered, they held off the Soviet invaders In the aftermath of the Winter War, Finland... -
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic 9780060975401
RRP: $35.68$20.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060975401Author Slavenka DrakulicFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21 by Prit Buttar
RRP: $35.68$26.63At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the... -
War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris L. Bergen 9781442242289
RRP: $92.40$76.34In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, third edition... -
Imagining the Balkans by Maria Todorova 9780195387865
RRP: $69.28$54.10"If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on... -
The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah 9780300158267
RRP: $35.68$30.68Journalist Tim Judah's classic account, now brought fully up to date to include the overthrow of Milosevic, the assassination of Zoran Djindic, the breakaway of Kosovo, and the arrest of Radovan Karadzic. Praise for the first edition: "A lively and... -
Travels Through Blood and Honey: Becoming a Beekeeper in Kosovo by Elizabeth Gowing 9781904955900
RRP: $31.48$28.64Kosovo: the name conjures up blood: ethnic cleansing and war. This book reveals another side to the newest country in the world a land of generous families, strong tastes and lush landscapes: a land of honey. Elizabeth Gowing is rushed to Kosovo, on a... -
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning 9780062303028
$25.47Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews-now with a new afterword and additional photographs. Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police... -
When Dreams Collide: Travels in Yugoslavia with Rebecca West by Nicholas Allan 9781910533635
RRP: $52.50$37.21When Dreams Collide is Nicholas Allan's intimate pilgrimage across the former states of Yugoslavia. Shedding the received knowledge of headlines, he explores the splintered co-evolution of these lands over the last ten centuries, guided by the inimitable... -
With Their Backs To The World: Portraits from Serbia by Asne Seierstad
RRP: $23.08$15.54From the bestselling author of THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL comes a remarkable exploration of the lives of ordinary Serbs under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic-during the dramatic events leading up to his fall, and finally in the troubled years that have... -
Carpathian Rus': A Historical Atlas by Paul Robert Magocsi 9780772751157
RRP: $81.90$72.49Located at the exact geographic center of the European continent, and known by many as "the heart of Europe," Carpathian Rus' is a quintessential borderland, where geographic, political, ethnolinguistic, religious, and socio-climatic borders converge. In... -
From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe by John Connelly 9780691167121
RRP: $63.00$52.27A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his... -
Impossible Country by Brian Hall
RRP: $35.68$25.79'Here is art which conceals art, and intellect which conceals intellect, so that by the end of the book one feels that one understands something one had not understood before. Mr Hall is witty and amusing, but not snide; he has a lightness of touch which... -
Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust - OUN and UPA's Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941-1944 by John-paul Himka
$113.34One quarter of all Holocaust victims lived on the territory that now forms Ukraine, yet the Holocaust there has not received due attention. This book delineates the participation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed force,... -
The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus by Pavel M. Dolukhanov 9780582236189
$101.30The history of the early Slavs is a subject of renewed interest and one which is highly controversial both politically and historically. This pioneering text reviews the latest archaelogical (and other) evidence concerning the first settlers, their... -
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape by Dr Stejarel Olaru
RRP: $52.50$39.65Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the...