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  • The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History

    by Prof Dan Stone ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in the thirty-five chapters of this book. As well as diplomatic ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • The Balkans

    A Short History

    by Mark Mazower ...
    Series Book 3 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject to violent shifts of borders, rulers and belief systems at the hands of the world's great empires--from the Byzantine to the Habsburg and Ottoman--the Balkans are often called Europe's ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Prague in Black and Gold

    Scenes from the Life of a European City

    by Peter Demetz ...
    "With great erudition and profound engagement [this history] has made it possible for us to come closer to understanding Prague." ―Larry Wolff, The New York Times Book ReviewPrague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Endgame

    The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II

    by David Rohde ...
    “Powerful… definitive… Rohde tells the Srebrenica story with all the shades of gray the truth demanded.” —The Washington PostIn 1996, at the height of the Bosnian wars, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor named David Rohde uncovered a horrifying story that became an enduring symbol of the genocidal nature of that conflict, earning him his first Pulitzer Prize. Endgame is the full ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Traveling with Ghosts

    A Memoir

    by Shannon Leone Fowler ...
    A “rich, unblinking” (USA TODAY) memoir that moves from grief to reckoning to reflection to solace as a marine biologist shares the solo worldwide journey she took after her fiancé suffered a fatal box jellyfish attack in Thailand.In the summer of 2002, Shannon Leone Fowler was a blissful twenty-eight-year-old marine biologist, spending the summer backpacking through Asia with the love of her life ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Mabinogion (Complete)

    by Various Authors ...
    King Arthur was at Caerlleon upon Usk; and one day he sat in his chamber; and with him were Owain the son of Urien, and Kynon the son of Clydno, and Kai the son of Kyner; and Gwenhwyvar and her handmaidens at needlework by the window. And if it should be said that there was a porter at Arthur’s palace, there was none. Glewlwyd Gavaelvawr was there, acting as porter, to welcome guests and strangers ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood

    by Joseph Wechsberg ...
    The Vienna I Knew: Memories of a European Childhood by Joseph Wechsberg (80,000 words, 18 illustrations)Wechsberg’s memoir of pre-World War II mittel-Europa recounts with charm and irony life in the dying Habsburg Empire, family stories of wealth gained and lost, the subtleties of coffeehouse culture and the dynamics of Viennese society where one “is at the same time an actor, his own audience, ... Read more

    $18.31 CAD

  • Count Leo Tolstoy in the 1860's, Illustrated.

    by Eugene Schuyler ...
    This sketch of Tolstoy concentrates on the period of the later part of the 1860's, written twenty years after Schuyler, Tolstoy's first translator, met the Count. A good background piece. ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

  • The Myth of Ethnic War

    Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s

    by V. P. Gagnon ...
    "The wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in neighboring Croatia and Kosovo grabbed the attention of the western world not only because of their ferocity and their geographic location, but also because of their timing. This violence erupted at the exact moment when the cold war confrontation was drawing to a close, when westerners were claiming their liberal values as triumphant, in a country that had ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Facing the Nazi Past

    United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich

    by Bill Niven ...
    Facing the Nazi Past examines how the communist East viewed the events of these years very differently from West Germany during the Cold War. Following the unification of Germany, these contrasting memories of the Third Reich have contributed to a new perspective on this period of German history.Facing the Nazi Past explores the developments and debates that were symptomatic of this shift towards ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • A History of Slovakia

    The Struggle for Survival

    by Stanislav J. Kirschbaum ...
    "A masterpiece of historical narrative . . . free from ideological or political bias . . . fill[s] a painful gap in modern English-speaking historiography." —Emilia Hrabovec, University of ViennaThis classic book offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of Slovakia, from its establishment on the Danubian Plain to the present. While paying tribute to Slovakia's resilience and struggle ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Red Hangover

    Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism

    by Kristen Ghodsee ...
    In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive social and economic upheavals in their lives after 1989. Ghodsee shows how recent major crises—from ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD