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  • 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

    $18.31 CAD

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    by Diane Ackerman ...
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  • Uncivil Society

    1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment

    by Stephen Kotkin, Jan Gross ...
    Series Book 32 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies–East ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Sobibor

    A History of a Nazi Death Camp

    by Jules Schelvis ...
    Translated by Karin Dixon ...
    Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibör is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors perpetrated there.Established in German-occupied Poland, the camp at Sobibör began its dreadful killing operation in May 1942. By October 1943, approximately 167,000 people had been murdered there. Sobibör is not well documented and, were it not for an ... Read more

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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

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  • The Left Side of History

    World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe

    by Kristen Ghodsee ...
    In The Left Side of History Kristen Ghodsee tells the stories of partisans fighting behind the lines in Nazi-allied Bulgaria during World War II: British officer Frank Thompson, brother of the great historian E.P. Thompson, and fourteen-year-old Elena Lagadinova, the youngest female member of the armed anti-fascist resistance. But these people were not merely anti-fascist; they were pro-communist, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Founding a Balkan State

    Albania's Experiment with Democracy, 1920-1925

    by Robert Clegg Austin ...
    Founding a Balkan State examines the pivotal period in Albanian history when the country's fundamental goals and directions were most hotly contested. In 1920, liberal Albanian leaders – led by the US-educated Bishop Fan S. Noli – began working to introduce democracy to the country, hoping that it would lead to modernization, prosperity, and overturning the legacy of five hundred years of Ottoman ... Read more

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  • The A to Z of the Gypsies (Romanies)

    by Donald Kenrick ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Originating in India, the Gypsies arrived in Europe around the 14th century, spreading not only across the entirety of the continent but also immigrating to the Americas. The first Gypsy migration included farmworkers, blacksmiths, and mercenary soldiers, as well as musicians, fortune-tellers, and entertainers. At first, they were generally welcome as an interesting diversion to the dull routine ... Read more

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  • The Romanian Battlefront in World War I

    by Glenn E. Torrey ...
    Series series Modern War Studies
    Winner: Norman B. Tomlinson Book PrizeDespite a strategically vulnerable position, an ill-prepared army, and questionable promises of military support from the Allied Powers, Romania intervened in World War I in August 1916. In return, it received the Allies’ formal sanction for the annexation of the Romanian-inhabited regions of Austria-Hungary. As Glenn Torrey reveals in his pathbreaking study, ... Read more

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  • Wandering Jew

    The Search for Joseph Roth

    by Dennis Marks ...
    Joseph Roth, best known as the author of the novel The Radetzky March and the nonfiction work The Wandering Jews, was one of the most seductive, disturbing, and enigmatic writers of the twentieth century. Born in 1894 in the Habsburg Empire in what is now Ukraine and dying in Paris in 1939, he was a perpetually displaced person, a traveler, a prophet, a compulsive liar, and a man who covered his ... Read more

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  • Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war Vol. 1

    by Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov, Mark Conrad ...
    Series Book 7 - Soldiers, Weapons & Uniforms NAP
    Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology development over the past centuries . There is various ancient editions of the work, Mark Conrad’s translation is the first and the better to remain ... Read more

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  • Retuning Culture

    Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Mark Slobin ...
    As a measure of individual and collective identity, music offers both striking metaphors and tangible data for understanding societies in transition—and nowhere is this clearer than in the recent case of the Eastern Bloc. Retuning Culture presents an extraordinary picture of this phenomenon. This pioneering set of studies traces the tumultuous and momentous shifts in the music cultures of Central ... Read more

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