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God's Playground A History of Poland: Volume II: 1795 to the Present by Norman Davies
RRP: $111.15$95.06This 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... -
Polish Winged Hussar 1556-1775 by Richard Brzezinski 9781841766508
$22.91This book examines the origins and development of the Polish Winged Hussars. Using many years' painstaking research drawn from unpublished Polish sources, the author provides a rounded view of the training, tactics, appearance and experiences of these... -
Serbs and Albanians by Milan Sufflay 9780988712928
RRP: $44.85$32.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988712928Author Milan SufflayFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint AlerionPublisher AlerionWeight(grams) 404g -
A Concise History of Poland by Jerzy Lukowski 9781108440127
RRP: $48.73$40.35Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the... -
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon, Prospect A riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl,... -
Alicia: My Story by APPLEMAN
RRP: $17.53$9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553282184Author Alicia ApplemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 170mm... -
An Anti-Communist on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of a Russian Officer in the Spanish Blue Division 1941-1942 by Vladimir Kovalevski
RRP: $48.75$34.36Vladimir Kovalevskii's memoirs record in graphic detail a remarkable military career. As a soldier, a committed anti-communist and Russian patriot he saw from the inside a series of conflicts that ravaged Europe in the first half of the twentieth century... -
Picturing Russian Empire by Valerie Kivelson 9780197600528
RRP: $95.53$89.49Picturing Russian Empire offers a new way to approach the history of Russia as an empire and as a state located in a world characterized by a churning, dynamic exchange of people, ideas, and practices. It presents readers with a visual tour of the lands... -
A History of the Czech Lands by Jaroslav Panek
RRP: $78.00$77.12Born January 1, 1993, after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, this new state and the areas just outside its modern borders boast an ancient and intricate past. With A... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism by S. A. Smith 9780198779414
$68.25The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the... -
Battle for Grozny, Volume 1: Prelude and the First Assault on the Capital of Chechnya, 1994-1995 by Efim Sandler 9781804512142
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512142Author Efim SandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed by Mary Heimann
RRP: $38.98$33.09This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992-from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, and... -
Russia's Long Twentieth Century: Voices, Memories, Contested Perspectives by Choi Chatterjee
RRP: $77.98$68.37Covering the sweep of Russian history from empire to Soviet Union to post-Soviet state, Russia's Long Twentieth Century is a comprehensive yet accessible textbook that situates modern Russia in the context of world history and encourages students to... -
Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction by Patricia Melzer
RRP: $56.53$49.45In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that revolution would lead to social change. In the years to come, the bombings, shootings, kidnappings and bank robberies of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and Movement... -
Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War by Julie Mertus
RRP: $52.65$41.85Julie Mertus provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a profound and detailed study of national identity and... -
The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia by Jonathan Schneer
RRP: $61.41$42.78During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they... -
Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution by Susan L. Woodward 9780815795131
RRP: $48.75$43.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815795131Author Susan L. WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 556Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
Operation Typhoon: The Assault on Moscow 1941 by Philippe Naud 9781612006710
RRP: $38.98$27.85After the initial successes of Operation Barbarossa, at the end of September 1941 Hitler turned his focus to Moscow, with the unshakeable belief that capturing the capital would knock the Soviets out of the war. On the face of it, it was an unequal... -
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Witold Pilecki 9781607720102
RRP: $58.50$39.55In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and reported from inside the camp. His intelligence... -
The Railway that Helped win the Crimean War: The Story of the Grand Crimean Central Railway by Dawson, Anthony 9781526775559
RRP: $48.75$34.36Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers' supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track... -
The Kingdom of Rus' by Christian Raffensperger
RRP: $31.10$30.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401315Author Christian RaffenspergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressWeight(grams) 113g -
Cafe Europa: Life after Communism by Slavenka Drakulic 9780140277722
$31.65"Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world." -Gloria SteinemToday in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure... -
From Moscow to Stalingrad: The Eastern Front, 1941-1942 by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006093
RRP: $38.98$27.85The path from Moscow to Stalingrad was littered with successes and losses for both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, with tensions remaining high and culminating in one of the harshest battles of the Second World War. Part of the Casemate Illustrated... -
Empires of Eurasia: How Imperial Legacies Shape International Security by Jeffrey Mankoff
$59.94How the collapse of empires helps explain the efforts of China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey to challenge the international order Eurasia's major powers-China, Iran, Russia, and Turkey-increasingly intervene across their borders while seeking to pull their... -
The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930s by James Harris 9780198797869
$59.92Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great... -
The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo by Noam Chomsky 9780745316338
RRP: $42.88$28.39The crisis in Kosovo has excited passion and visionary exaltation of a kind rarely witnessed. The events have been portrayed as a 'new humanism', timed fortuitously with a new millennium, which will displace the crass and narrow interest politics of a... -
War in Ukraine Volume 2: Russian Invasion, February 2022 by Tom Cooper
RRP: $38.90$36.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512166Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past by Omer Bartov
RRP: $39.00$33.89The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe's borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II "A powerful combination of history and personal memoir. . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical study."-Kirkus Reviews (starred... -
A Commentary on The Old English and Anglo-Latin Riddle Tradition by Andy Orchard
RRP: $107.15$85.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024774Author Andy OrchardFormat HardbackPage Count 744Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &... -
The Fixer by Joe Sacco
RRP: $33.13$25.19In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the... -
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? by Katherine Verdery
RRP: $87.75$68.87Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays... -
Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph Roth by Dennis Marks
RRP: $23.40$18.95In this revealing 'psycho-geography', Dennis Marks makes a journey through the eastern borderlands of Europe to learn about the elusive writer Joseph Roth and the world in which he lived. The result is a riveting and involving documentary that reunites... -
Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands by Omer Bartov
RRP: $56.53$49.45Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires... -
The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv: A Borderland City between Stalinists, Nazis, and Nationalists by Tarik Cyril Amar
RRP: $52.63$45.47The Paradox of Ukrainian Lviv reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of Lviv into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by violence, population changes, and... -
Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev by R. W. Davies 9780521627429
RRP: $46.78$38.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Sixteenth Century by Professor Euan Cameron
RRP: $64.33$60.94The sixteenth century witnessed some of the most abrupt and traumatic transformations ever seen in European society and culture. Population growth strained the old fabric of community and economic relations. New supplies of precious metals from east and... -
The Amorites and the Bronze Age Near East: The Making of a Regional Identity by Aaron A. Burke 9781108811361
RRP: $54.58$50.80In this book, Aaron A. Burke explores the evolution of Amorite identity in the Near East from ca. 2500-1500 BC. He sets the emergence of a collective identity for the Amorites, one of the most famous groups in Ancient Near Eastern history, against the... -
Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine by Oksana Maksymchuk
RRP: $33.13$25.53The armed conflict in the east of Ukraine brought about an emergence of a distinctive trend in contemporary Ukrainian poetry: the poetry of war. Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war,... -
The Last Lancer by Catherine Czerkawska
RRP: $25.33$16.77An intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds. Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 on his aristocratic family's large estate, near Lwow, now Ukrainian Lviv. He was the son of a charismatic... -
In Search of Romania by Dennis Deletant
RRP: $39.00$34.79The imposition of Communist ideology was a misfortune for millions in Eastern Europe, but never for Dennis Deletant. Instead, it drew him to Romania. The renowned historian's association with the country and its people dates back to 1965, when he first...