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  • The Red Commissar

    Including Further Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk and Other Stories

    by Jaroslav Hasek ...
    Translated by Cecil Parrott ...
    Jaroslav Hasek is best known for his satirical masterpiece The Good Soldier Svejk. That has been described as 'Perhaps the funniest novel ever written.' Although his life was short and chaotic, Hasek did however write more as this volume tellingly reveals. In his preface, Cecil Parrott, translator and biographer of Hasek, crisply defines its purpose.. 'All the world has heard of Svejk, but few are ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.1939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only to see the occupiers ruthlessly kill many of their animals. The Nazis then carry off the prized specimens to Berlin for their program to create the “purest” breeds, much as they ... Read more

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  • The Whistleblower

    Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors, and One Woman's Fight for Justice

    by Kathryn Bolkovac, Cari Lynn ...
    The Whistleblower presents the shocking story of the human rights abuses perpetrated by American mercenary soldiers abroad, as told by the woman who brought them down--now a major motion picture.When Nebraska police officer and divorced mother of three Kathryn Bolkovac saw a recruiting announcement for private military contractor DynCorp International, she applied and was hired. Good money, world ... Read more

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  • Forgotten Land

    Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia

    by Max Egremont ...
    Until the end of World War II, East Prussia was the German empire's farthest eastern redoubt, a thriving and beautiful land on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea. Now it lives only in history and in myth. Since 1945, the territory has been divided between Poland and Russia, stretching from the border between Russia and Lithuania in the east and south, and through Poland in the west. In ... Read more

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  • Russia's Last Gasp

    The Eastern Front 1916–17

    by Prit Buttar ...
    Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-Hungarian commands held high hopes for 1916.After the success of the 1915 Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive, which had driven Russia out of Galicia and Poland, Germany was free to renew its efforts in the west. Austria-Hungary, meanwhile, turned its attention to ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • History of the Balkans

    by Ferdinand Schevill ...
    THIS book is concerned with the story of man on the southeastern projection of Europe, known as the Balkan peninsula. For practical purposes the story begins with the Greeks, because the Greeks, though not the original inhabitants of the peninsula, were the first to leave a clear record of themselves and their neighbors. From the Hellenic period, when the mists hiding the land from view begin to ... Read more

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  • Modern Hatreds

    The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War

    by Stuart J. Kaufman ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Ethnic conflict has been the driving force of wars all over the world, yet it remains an enigma. What is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence against their lifelong neighbors?Stuart Kaufman rejects the notion of permanent "ancient hatreds" as the answer. Dissatisfied as well with a purely rationalist explanation, he finds the roots of ethnic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Crooked Mirror

    A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation

    by Louise Steinman ...
    A lyrical literary memoir that explores the exhilarating, discomforting, and ultimately healing process of Polish-Jewish reconciliation taking place in Poland todayAlthough an estimated 80 percent of American Jews are of Polish descent, many in the postwar generation and those born later know little about their families’ connection to their ancestral home. In fact, many Jews continue to think of ... Read more

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  • Professor Krylov's Navy

    Memoir of a Naval Architect

    by Alexey Krylov ...
    Memoir of Alexey Krylov, Russian naval engineer, scientist, and businessman, about his childhood, his education in Russia and France in XIX century, his years in the Naval Academy, and his naval career and business endeavors before and after Russian Revolution, his interactions with numerous historical figures. Additional material: Introduction by Andrey Kapitsa and recollections of his daughter ... Read more

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  • The National Question in Yugoslavia

    Origins, History, Politics

    by Ivo Banac ...
    Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged repeatedly by the tension between the pressures for overarching political cohesion and the defense of separate national identities and ... Read more

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  • The Partitions of Poland 1772, 1793, 1795

    by Jerzy Lukowski ...
    The Partitions of Poland were a key event in the power politics of the late ancien regime, and had major long term consequences for the balance of power in northern and eastern Europe. Over a period of twenty five years Catherine II (Russia), Frederick II (Prussia) and Maria Theresa and Joseph II (Austria) between them wiped Poland xxx; Europe's second largest countryxxx; off the political map, ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Speaking to My Country

    by Jan Masaryk ...
    Speaking to My Country by Jan Masaryk; Foreword by Madeleine Albright; Biographical Note by Helen Epstein (69,000 words)First published in 1944, these speeches deserve study by contemporary students of leadership, media, and international relations.Written and delivered by the then Foreign Minister of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile, they were broadcast over BBC radio as part of the Allied ... Read more

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