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Who Will Write Our History?
Penguin Books Ltd 2009; Not AvailableIn the Autumn of 1940 the Jews of Warsaw were forced into a crowded ghetto, enduring unimaginable conditions until most were killed. Yet, amid this, one man, Emanuel Ringelblum, started an extraordinary clandestine organization dedicated to recording life under Nazi occupation. His aim: to ensure that, if he died, his people's history would still be... more...
Prague Winter
HarperCollins 2012; US$ 23.99?A remarkable story of adventure and passion, tragedy and courage set against the backdrop of occupied Czechoslovakia and World War II.? ?Václav Havel From former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright comes a moving and thoughtful memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, World War II, fascism, and the onset... more...
Forgotten Land
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 9.58No country embodied the turbulence of twentieth-century European history more dramatically than East Prussia. A great power in the 1800 and 1900s which became a free state in the Weimar Republic post-1918, it was carved up between Poland and the USSR after World War II ? and passed abruptly into history. The scene of the final battle between Hitler... more...
Medieval Polish Armies 966-1500
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 13.95The history of Poland is a fascinating study of a people struggling to achieve nationhood in the face of internal and external enemies. Poland became a unified Christian state in AD 966 and by the 12th century a knightly class had emerged - a force that was integral to the defense of Poland against increasingly frequent foreign invasions. Intent on... more...
The Modern Balkans
Reaktion Books 2012; US$ 40.00In The Modern Balkans , historian Richard C. Hall gives a complete account of the historical events that have shaped the Balkan region of Southeastern Europe. Originally separated from the rest of Europe by culture, politics, and economics, the Balkans have slowly been integrating into Western Europe since the nineteenth century. But this process... more...
Reinventing Politics
Free Press 2008; Not AvailableReinventing Politics gives an account of East European politics from the time of Soviet domination to the 1989-90 revolutions, and considers the effect of tyranny on East European culture and politics, the chances for successful and harmonious development in the region, and its relationship with the rest of Europe. ?Using primary materials from... more...
The Baltic
Overlook 2007; US$ 16.99There is currently no description available for this title at this time. more...
Iron Curtain
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 35.00In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag , acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight... more...
A Grain of Truth
Bitter Lemon Press 2013; US$ 12.95Prosecutor Szacki?s investigation of a murder in a Polish town reveals the poisonous anti-Semitism that haunts all who live there. more...
Gorbachev
Columbia University Press 2005; US$ 27.99Here is the whole sweep of the Soviet experiment and experience, as told by its last steward. Drawing on his own experience as well as rich archival material, Gorbachev ponders Russia's past, present, and future place in the world -- including the October Revolution, the Cold War, and key figures such as Lenin, Stalin, and Yeltsin. more...









