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  • Hollywood's War with Poland, 1939–1945

    by M.B.B. Biskupski ...
    "This passionate, carefully researched, richly detailed, well-written study" reveals the political motives behind WWII Hollywood's portrayal of Poles ( Choice).During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale. Often the characterizations were as black and white as the movies themselves: Americans and their allies were ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Most Dangerous German Agent in America

    The Many Lives of Louis N. Hammerling

    by M. B. B. Biskupski ...
    On the morning of April 27, 1935, Louis N. Hammerling fell to his death from the nineteenth floor of an apartment in New York City, where he lived alone. Hammerling was one of the most influential Polish immigrants in turn-of-the-century America and the leading voice and advocate of the Eastern Europeans who had come to the country seeking a better life. He was also a pathological liar, a crook, a ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • War and Diplomacy in East and West

    A Biography of Józef Retinger

    by M. B. B. Biskupski ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    The New York Times said of Józef Hieronim Retinger that he was on intimate terms with most leading statesmen of the Western World, including presidents of the United States. He has been repeatedly acknowledged as one of the principle architects of the movement for European unity after the World War II, and one of the outstanding creative political influences of the post war period. He has also ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The History of Poland

    by M. B. B. Biskupski ...
    Series series The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations
    This book is an engaging explanation of the complicated history of Poland, one of the least well-known countries in Europe.Poland, which has one of the strongest economies in the European Union, has faced significant turmoil throughout the years. Encapsulating centuries of development, this book distills Poland's historical evolution into patterns, including those that have developed since the ... Read more

    $78.89 CAD

  • The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy

    Edited by M. B. B. Biskupski, James S. Pula, Piotr J. Wróbel ...
    Series series Polish and Polish-American Studies Series
    The Origins of Modern Polish Democracy is a series of closely integrated essays that traces the idea of democracy in Polish thought and practice. It begins with the transformative events of the mid-nineteenth century, which witnessed revolutionary developments in the socioeconomic and demographic structure of Poland, and continues through changes that marked the postcommunist era of free Poland ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    A History

    by Richard Pipes ...
    Series Book 7 - Modern Library Chronicles
    From one of our greatest historians, a magnificent reckoning with the modern world's most fateful idea.With astonishing authority and clarity, Richard Pipes has fused a lifetime's scholarship into a single focused history of Communism, from its hopeful birth as a theory to its miserable death as a practice.At its heart, the book is a history of the Soviet Union, the most comprehensive ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Russian Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by S. A. Smith ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Russia in Revolution

    An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

    by S. A. Smith ...
    The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Historian S. A. Smith presents a panoramic account of the history of the Russian empire, from the last years of the nineteenth century, through the First World War and the ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • A History of Modern Germany

    1800 to the Present

    by Martin Kitchen ...
    Featuring revised and extended coverage, the second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers an accessible and engagingly written account of German history from 1800 to the present.Provides readers with a long view of modern German history, revealing its continuities and changesFeatures updated and extended coverage of German social change and modernization, class, religion, and ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy

    by Peter Kenez ...
    This concise yet comprehensive textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet period. It begins by identifying the social tensions and political inconsistencies that spurred radical change in Russia's government, from the turn of the century to the revolution of 1917. Peter Kenez presents this revolution as a crisis of authority that the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • German History in Modern Times

    Four Lives of the Nation

    by William W. Hagen ...
    This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western patterns. Rather than treating 'the Germans' as a collective whole whose national history amounts to a cumulative biography, the book presents the ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • A History of Modern Europe

    From 1815 to the Present

    by Albert S. Lindemann ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World
    A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from the defeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting major historical themes in an authoritative and compelling narrative.Concise, readable single volume covering Europe from the early nineteenth century through the early twenty-first centuryVigorous interpretation of events reflects a fresh, concise perspective on European ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD