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  • Baltic Souls

    remarkable life stories from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

    by Jan Brokken ...
    Translated by David Doherty ...
    A monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the twentieth century.From 1999 to 2010, Jan Brokken explored life stories in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The result was his masterly Baltic Souls, available here for the first time in English. Brokken uncovered the stories of ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • The Just

    how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust

    by Jan Brokken ...
    Translated by David McKay ...
    The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century.In May 1940, Jan Zwartendijk, the director of the Lithuanian branch of the Philips electrical-goods company, stepped into history when he accepted the honorary role of Dutch consul.In Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, desperate ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • The Music of the Netherlands Antilles

    Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart

    by Jan Brokken ...
    Translated by Scott Rollins ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    The Music of the Netherlands Antilles: Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is kept in an urn, was an opportunity for these Antilleans to express their ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • In Europe

    Travels Through the Twentieth Century

    by Geert Mak ...
    From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint Petersburg to Srebrenica in search of evidence and witnesses of the last hundred years of Europe. Using his skills as an acclaimed journalist, Mak locates the smaller, personal stories ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Mystery of Olga Chekhova

    by Antony Beevor ...
    In his latest work, Antony Beevor—bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem and one of our most respected historians of World War II—brings us the true, little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated with Hitler. After ... Read more

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  • Ukraine

    A Nation on the Borderland

    by Karl Schlögel ...
    The Euromaidan uprising in Kiev, followed by radical regime change, the annexation of the Crimea and the war in Eastern Ukraine, have shattered European security. The Western response to Russian aggression has been uncertain and hesitant in handling the unfamiliar yet large nation of Ukraine, a country with a complicated past, and one whose history is little known in the rest of Europe.In Ukraine: ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Sunlight at Midnight

    St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia

    by Bruce Lincoln ...
    For Russians, St. Petersburg has embodied power, heroism, and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blended with images of suffering on a monumental scale make up the historic persona of the late W. Bruce Lincoln's lavish "biography" of this mysterious, complex city. Climate and comfort were not what Tsar ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Children Who Survived the Final Solution

    By Twenty-Six Survivors

    by Twenty-Six Survivors ...
    Holocaust survivors who were children during the Nazi persecution wrote this collection of memoirs. Each story bubbled up spontaneously, without an interviewer's guidance; hence these represent the most permanent memories of their authors' childhood experiences. This book provides a rare vantage point to look into the diverse lives of children during the Holocaust.-Both professionals and adult ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Stalin: History in an Hour

    by Rupert Colley ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was immune. Yet, following his death in 1953, Stalin was deeply mourned. He had ‘received the country with a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

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  • Budapest 1900

    A Historical Portrait of a City & Its Culture

    by John Lukacs ...
    A distinguished historian and Budapest native offers a rich and eloquent portrait of one of the great European cities at the height of its powers.Budapest, like Paris and Vienna, experienced a remarkable exfoliation at the end of the nineteenth century. In terms of population growth, material expansion, and cultural exuberance, it was among the foremost metropolitan centers of the world, the ... Read more

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  • Diaries and Selected Letters

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    This selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime. The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of ... Read more

    $9.09 CAD

  • The Real Stalin

    by Andrew Curry ...
    Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union with a combination of political savvy and cold-blooded brutality. He crushed the spirit of his own people while conquering half of Europe. What made the greatest murderer of the twentieth century tick? ... Read more

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