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Prague: Belonging in the Modern City by Chad Bryant
RRP: $32.19$26.17A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and intolerance in one of Europe's most stunning cities.What does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of Prague's... -
The Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus' Land by Charles J. Halperin
RRP: $101.91$97.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802700114Author Charles J. HalperinFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 by Marci Shore 9780300143287
$42.96'In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe called Ziemianska.' Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin-de-siecle. They sat in Cafe Ziemianska... -
Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia - Expanded Edition by Jan Gross
RRP: $54.18$43.14Jan Gross describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. His lucid analysis of the revolution that came to Poland from abroad is based on... -
Armies of the Balkan Wars 1912–13: The priming charge for the Great War by Philip Jowett
RRP: $16.76$14.20In 1912, the Balkan states formed an alliance in an effort to break free from the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Forming an army of some 645,000 troops from Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenego, they took on a force of 400,000 Turkish soldiers. Both sides... -
Athene Palace: Hitler's "New Order" Comes to Rumania by R. G. Waldeck
RRP: $21.93$18.86On the day that Paris fell to the Nazis, R. G. Waldeck was checking into the swankiest hotel in Bucharest, the Athene Palace. A cosmopolitan center during the war, the hotel was populated by Italian and German oilmen hoping to secure new business... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin
RRP: $72.24$67.98In 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... -
Inventing Eastern Europe: The Map of Civilization on the Mind of the Enlightenment by Larry Wolff 9780804727020
RRP: $38.69$31.66This is a wide-ranging intellectual history of how, in the 18th century, Europe came to be conceived as divided into "Western Europe" and "Eastern Europe". The author argues that this conceptual reorientation from the previously accepted "Northern" and... -
Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Cynthia Enloe 9780803292291
$25.50Alexandra Stiglmayer interviewed survivors of the continuing war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in order to reveal, to a seemingly deaf world, the horrors of the ongoing war in the former Yugoslavia. The women-primarily of Muslim but also of Croatian and Serbian... -
Late Enlightenment: Emergence of the Modern 'National Idea' by Balazs Trencsenyi 9789637326523
RRP: $104.49$96.62This volume represents the first in a series of four books, a daring project by CEU Press, which presents the most important texts that triggered and shaped the processes of nation-building in the many countries of Central and Southeast Europe. The... -
The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War by David Caute 9780199278831
$90.45The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, David Caute establishes the nature of the extraordinary cultural competition set up post-1945 between... -
War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine by Mikhail Zygar 9781668013724
RRP: $38.70$24.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668013724Author Mikhail ZygarFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 162mm * 35mm -
Harbin: A Cross-Cultural Biography by Mark Gamsa
RRP: $85.14$73.96This book offers an intimate portrait of early twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants. The deep social and intellectual fissures between the Russian and... -
Ukraine and the Art of Strategy by Sir Lawrence Freedman 9780190902889
RRP: $51.59$31.89One of the most serious crises since the end of the Cold War began with Russia's seizure and annexation of Crimea in March 2014 and subsequent 'secret' war in Eastern Ukraine. As more territory was taken from Eastern Ukraine, Western countries countered... -
No Harmless Power by Kevin Matthews
RRP: $27.08$18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634715Author Charlie AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery 9780822370819
RRP: $30.95$26.88As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region of Romania, ruled at the time by communist dictator... -
The Other First World War: The Blood-Soaked Russian Fronts 1914-1922 by Douglas Boyd
RRP: $21.92$16.69Winston Churchill called it 'the unknown war'. Unlike the long stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 1914-18 between the Russian Empire and the Central Powers was a war of movement spanning a continent - from the Arctic to the Adriatic, Black and... -
Diary of an Invasion by Andrey Kurkov 9781914495915
RRP: $16.76$12.62'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... -
Nobody's Kingdom: A History of Northern Albania by T.J. Winnifrith 9781909930919
RRP: $25.80$23.01The Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, foreign invasion, communism and tribal conflict: these have been the realities of life in Northern Albania for centuries. In this rich and comprehensive history, Tom Winnifrith examines the many different... -
Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914 by Serhiy Bilenky 9780228017578
RRP: $50.31$44.01When 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... -
The Ukrainian-Russian Borderland: History versus Geography by Volodymyr V. Kravchenko
RRP: $69.66$54.23The eastern edge of Europe has long been in flux. The nature of the Ukrainian-Russian relationship is both complex and ambiguous. Prompted by the countries' historical and geographical entanglement, Volodymyr Kravchenko asks what the words Ukraine and... -
The Galician Division 1943-45: Ukrainian Volunteers and Conscripts in the Waffen SS by David McCormack 9781781558720
RRP: $32.25$23.92In this absorbing new history of the 'Galicia' Division, David McCormack debunks many of the myths that have resulted in enduring controversies amongst the public, the mainstream media, academics, and politicians. 'The Galicia Division 1943-45 : Just... -
Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite Purges and Mass Repression by Kevin McDermott 9780719089022
RRP: $25.79$22.72This wide-ranging collection of essays, newly available in paperback, is the first book in English to examine the impact of Stalinist terror on Eastern Europe in the years 1940 to 1956. Covering the Baltic states, Moldavia, East Germany, Poland,... -
A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire by M. Sukru Hanioglu
RRP: $36.12$31.49At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan... -
The Trieste Crisis 1953: The First Cold War Confrontation in Europe by Bojan Dimitrijevic 9781912866342
RRP: $21.87$15.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866342Author Bojan DimitrijevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
T-34: Russia's Armoured Spearhead by Robert Jackson 9781526711328
RRP: $19.34$14.13Von Kleist, one of Hitler s best panzer leaders, described the T-34 as The finest tank in the world . There could have been no finer accolade from a commander whose panzer divisions experienced the full fury of its devastating attacks on the Eastern... -
Tsars & Cossacks - A Study in Iconography by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $20.58$16.90Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709)-the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa-be... -
Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II by MR David Rohde 9780143120315
RRP: $38.70$26.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120315Author David RohdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe by Fred C. Abrahams
RRP: $30.95$27.40In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe's most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read... -
The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 by Peter Siani-Davies
RRP: $38.69$34.19The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was the most spectacularly violent and remains today the most controversial of all the East European upheavals of that year. Despite (or perhaps because of) the media attention the revolution received, it remains shrouded... -
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich 9781564784018
RRP: $27.08$23.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2005 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9781564784018Author Svetlana AlexievichFormat... -
Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective by Carlo Ginzburg
RRP: $30.96$29.71In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the "hounds of God," fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches, and... -
Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria by Miglena S. Todorova 9781487528416
RRP: $28.37$24.76Unequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, Miglena S. Todorova traces the intertwined local... -
Forgotten Holocaust, Third by Richard C. Lukas 9780781813020
RRP: $19.34$15.56Forgotten Holocaust has become a classic of World War II literature. As Norman Davies noted, "Dr. Richard Lukas has rendered a valuable service, by showing that no one can properly analyze the fate of one ethnic community in occupied Poland without... -
Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism by Jelena Subotic 9781501742408
RRP: $30.95$22.91Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled-ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated-throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in those lands that most of the extermination campaign occurred. As part of accession... -
History of Romania: A Captivating Guide to Romanian History, Including Events Such as the First Roman-Dacian War, Raids of Vlad III Dracula against the Ottoman Empire, the Great War, and World War 2 by Captivating History 9781637161418
RRP: $24.47$16.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161418Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)... -
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith 9780691150345
RRP: $23.21$18.64The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the... -
Benes and Masaryk: Czechoslovakia by Peter Neville 9781905791729
RRP: $16.76$11.60Of even greater importance for Hungary's future were the activities of the champions of an independent state of Czechs and Slovaks. Tomas Masaryk, a Czech professor of philosophy and a future leader of his people, was hard at work within a month of the... -
The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont
RRP: $23.21$16.71Winner of the European Book Prize'A masterpiece' Jan T. Gross'Terrifying and necessary' Julian Barnes'Scrupulously objective and profoundly personal' Kate AtkinsonOn 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime was committed in the small Polish town of Jedwadbne... -
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History by Robert Kaplan 9780312424930
RRP: $29.67$17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312424930Author Robert KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 142mm * 15mm