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The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont
RRP: $37.78$27.20Winner 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: $48.30$28.98Apologies 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 -
History of Eastern Europe: A Captivating Guide to a Shortened History of Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Moldova, Belarus, and Romania by Captivating History 9781637165034
RRP: $58.78$40.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165034Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm)... -
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History by Derek Sayer
RRP: $58.80$54.52Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city of light," Walter Benjamin dubbed Paris "the capital of the nineteenth century." In this eagerly anticipated sequel to his acclaimed Coasts of Bohemia: A... -
Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History by Steven J. Zipperstein
RRP: $31.48$25.22So shattering were the after-effects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was "nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself". In three days of violence, 49 Jews were killed and 600... -
The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts by Daniel Pick
RRP: $35.68$27.17The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the historian and the trained psychoanalyst to weave together the story of clinical... -
The European Sultanas of the Ottoman Empire by Anna Ivanova Buxton 9781530166077
RRP: $42.00$36.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530166077Author Anna Ivanova BuxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia by Nikolay Koposov
RRP: $56.68$47.88Laws against Holocaust denial are perhaps the best-known manifestation of the present-day politics of historical memory. In Memory Laws, Memory Wars, Nikolay Koposov examines the phenomenon of memory laws in Western and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and... -
Croatia: A History by Ivo Goldstein 9781850655251
RRP: $41.98$37.42When the Roman Empire split in the 4th century AD into the Western and Eastern empires, the boundary between the two stretched from the Montenegrin coast up the river Drina to the confluence of the Slava and the Danube and then further north. This... -
Balkan Wars: Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia, 1499-1617 by James D. Tracy 9781442213586
RRP: $186.90$164.54Distinguished scholar James D. Tracy shows how the Ottoman advance across Europe stalled in the western Balkans, where three great powers confronted one another in three adjoining provinces: Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia. Until... -
Galicia: A Multicultured land by Christopher Hann 9780802037817
RRP: $86.10$75.20Habsburg Galicia was an area in central Europe covering territory presently occupied by Poland and Ukraine that was distinctive for its multi-ethnic character. With the unraveling of the Austro-Hungarian Empire following the First World War, a new... -
The Investigator: Demons of the Balkan War by Vladimir Dzuro 9781640121959
RRP: $54.58$44.60The war that broke out in the former Yugoslavia at the end of the twentieth century unleashed unspeakable acts of violence committed against defenseless civilians, including a grizzly mass murder at an Ovcara pig farm in 1991. An international tribunal... -
English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era: The Muscovy Company, 1603-1649 by Maria Salomon Arel 9781498550253
RRP: $73.50$65.00In English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era, Maria Salomon Arel revisits Anglo-Russian trade in first half of the seventeenth century. Drawing on largely neglected Russian and English sources, she reconstructs the history of the... -
Muslims in Eastern Europe by Egdunas Racius
RRP: $58.78$54.62Introduces the centuries-old history of Muslim communities in Eastern EuropeThe history and contemporary situation of Muslim communities in Eastern Europe are explored here from three angles. First, survival, telling of the resilience of these Muslim... -
The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland Under the General Government by Martin Winstone
$104.79After the German attack on Poland in 1939, vast swathes of Polish territory, including Warsaw and Krakow, were occupied by the Nazis in an administration which became known as the 'General Government'. The region was not directly incorporated into the... -
Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II by Joseph Rothschild
RRP: $180.58$169.37Highly acclaimed and thoroughly updated, Return to Diversity, Fourth Edition, provides a comprehensive political history of East Central Europe from World War II to the present. An engaging and straightforward political narrative, the book is organized... -
Scotland and Poland: Historical Encounters 1500-2010 by Tom Devine
RRP: $42.00$29.51This collection of essays explores more than five centuries of Scottish-Polish interactions. It focuses on the two main moments of contact: the early modern experiences of Scottish pedlars, merchants, mercenaries and diplomats in the Polish-Lithuanian... -
Visions of Ararat: Writings on Armenia by Christopher J. Walker 9781850438885
$55.50Despite the great geographical gulf that separates them, Armenia and Europe have maintained links for many centuries - at least since the late Middle Ages when the King of Armenia travelled to London to try and reconcile the warring kingdoms of England... -
The War in Ukraine's Donbas: Origins, Contexts, and the Future by David R. Marples
RRP: $44.00$40.64This collective work analyzes the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, providing a coherent picture of Ukraine and Eastern Europe in the period 2013-2020. Giving voice to different social groups, scholarly communities and agencies relevant to Ukraine's recent... -
The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution by Waitman Wade Beorn 9781474232180
RRP: $56.68$49.22Waitman Wade Beorn's The Holocaust in Eastern Europe provides a comprehensive history of the Holocaust in the region that was the central location of the event itself while including material often overlooked in general Holocaust history texts. ... -
The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Revised and Expanded Edition: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka by Yitzhak Arad
RRP: $58.78$51.53Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used... -
Cross & Crescent in the Balkans: The Ottoman Conquest of Southeastern Europe (14th - 15th Centuries) by David Nicolle 9781526766731
RRP: $33.58$24.38This is NOT just another retelling of the Fall of Constantinople, though it does include a very fine account of that momentous event. It is the history of a quite extraordinary century and a bit which began when a tiny of force of Ottoman Turkish... -
Battle of Korsun-Cherkassy: The Encirclement and Breakout of Army Group South, 1944 by Nikolaus von Vormann 9781612006031
RRP: $41.90$33.94In 1943 the tide began to turn against Germany on the Eastern Front. Their summer offensive, Operation Citadel, was a failure, and the Red Army seized the initiative, despite appallingly high losses. Waging a war of attrition, the Russians gradually... -
The Forgotten German Genocide: Revenge Cleansing in Eastern Europe, 1945-50 by Peter C Brown
RRP: $52.50$37.00The Potsdam Conference (officially known as the "Berlin Conference"), was held from 17 July to 2 August 1945 at Cecilienhof Palace, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Brandenburg, and saw the leaders of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union... -
A Ray of Light: Reinhard Heydrich, Lidice, and the North Staffordshire Miners by Russell Phillips 9780995513303
$14.93Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Life is War: Surviving Dictatorship in Communist Albania by Shannon Woodcock
RRP: $27.20$26.94The book reveals how everyday people survived political persecution and oppression, and champions human resilience in the face of unrelenting political terror. In Life in War, the reader accompanies Shannon Woodcock, the author and historian, through... -
Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria by Mary C. Neuburger 9781501705724
RRP: $35.68$31.65This fascinating book explores the history of tobacco and tobacco culture in Bulgaria from the mid-19th century, when the country became partially and then fully independent from the Ottoman Empire, to the postcommunist present. Neuburger... argues... -
The Brusilov Offensive by Timothy C. Dowling
RRP: $50.38$43.76In the summer of 1915, the Central Powers launched an offensive on the Eastern Front that they hoped would decide the war. It did not, of course. In June 1916, an Allied army under the command of Aleksei A. Brusilov decimated the Central Powers' gains of... -
The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History by Derek Sayer 9780691050522
RRP: $94.50$85.70In The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare gave the landlocked country of Bohemia a coastline--a famous and, to Czechs, typical example of foreigners' ignorance of the Czech homeland. Although the lands that were once the Kingdom of Bohemia lie at the heart of... -
A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples by Paul Robert Magocsi 9781442610217
RRP: $105.00$97.34First published in 1996, A History of Ukraine quickly became the authoritative account of the evolution of Europe's second largest country. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Paul Robert Magocsi examines recent developments in the... -
Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans by Jasmin Mujanovic
RRP: $52.50$46.26Less than two decades after the Yugoslav Wars ended, the edifice of parliamentary government in the Western Balkans is crumbling. This collapse sets into sharp relief the unreformed authoritarian tendencies of the region's entrenched elites, many of whom... -
Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution by Brendan McGeever
RRP: $65.08$47.99When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, they announced the overthrow of a world scarred by exploitation and domination. In the very moment of revolution, these sentiments were put to the test as antisemitic pogroms swept the former Pale of Settlement... -
Katyn: Stalin's Massacre and the Triumph of Truth by Allen Paul
RRP: $41.98$37.67Twenty years ago, Allen Paul wrote the first post-communist account of one of the greatest but least-known tragedies of the twentieth century: Stalin's annihilation of Poland's officer corps and massive deportation of so-called "bourgeoisie elements" to... -
Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History by Steven J. Zipperstein 9781631492693
RRP: $46.18$37.72So shattering were the after-effects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was "nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself". In three days of violence, 49 Jews were... -
Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires by Anca Parvulescu
RRP: $62.98$55.65How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system... -
Blue Guide Travels in Transylvania: The Greater Tarnava Valley (2nd Edition) by Lucy Abel Smith 9781905131853
RRP: $31.40$22.93A visitor's handbook to the valley of the Greater Tarnava river in the heart of Transylvania. This is a land of ancient fortified churches and rolling wildflower meadows, towering steep-roofed citadels and stately noble castles, suspended in time, with... -
The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change by Katherine Verdery 9780231112314
RRP: $58.80$45.78Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses-the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more... -
Ukraine in the Crossfire by Chris de Ploegg 9780997287080
RRP: $41.98$33.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997287080Author Chris de PloeggFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Clarity PressPublisher Clarity Press -
The Suitcase: Refugee Voices from Bosnia and Croatia by Julie A. Mertus
RRP: $56.70$44.23The whirlwind of Europe's longest war in half a century has produced this powerful collection of personal narratives - essays, letters, and poems - from refugees fleeing Bosnia and Croatia. Taking us behind the barrage of media coverage, these stories... -
Men Under Fire: Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914-1918 by Jiri Hutecka 9781789205411
RRP: $207.90$168.99In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. As a result, the question of these soldiers' imperial loyalties has dominated...