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“richard fenigsen”

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  • A Long Journey to Russia

    by Richard Fenigsen, Antony Polonsky ...
    "An extraordinary memoir.” Luba Vinogradova, co-author of A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist With the Red Army, 1941-1945“An important contribution to our understanding of the Second World War in Eastern Europe, and also very funny, which I was not expecting.” Antony Polonsky, author of The Jews in Poland and RussiaAs the Nazi army swept into Eastern Europe in 1939, Richard Fenigsen, a sixteen ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

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  • The God-Kings of England

    The Viking and Norman Conquest of England (983-1066)

    by Hugh Montgomery ...
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    Following on from The God-Kings of Europe, The God-Kings of England, continues the Saga of the great Ulvungar Dynasty. It shows that there was a plan to counter the hegemony of Roman Christianity, by counter attacking, first with Viking raids and later by conquest and settlement. This is the tale of the Ulvungars and their attempt to conquer England, under the leadership of Danish Kings such as ... Read more

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  • Gulag Boss

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    by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky, Deborah Kaple ...
    The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent to work as a ... Read more

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  • To Walk with the Devil

    Slovene Collaboration and Axis Occupation, 1941-1945

    by Gregor J. Kranjc ...
    In the spring of 1941, when Slovenia was invaded by Germany, Italy, and Hungary, Slovenes faced at best assimilation, and at worst deportation or extermination. Still, a significant number of Slovenes would eventually collaborate with the Axis powers. Why were they so ready to work with their invaders, and why did the occupiers permit this collaboration?Gregor Joseph Kranjc investigates these ... Read more

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  • Death in the Shape of a Young Girl

    Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction

    by Patricia Melzer ...
    In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that revolution would lead to social change. In the years to come, the bombings, shootings, kidnappings and bank robberies of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and Movement 2nd June dominated newspaper headlines and polarized legislative debates. Half of the terrorists declaring war on the West German state were women ... Read more

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  • Armies of the Russo-Polish War 1919–21

    by Nigel Thomas ...
    Series Book 497 - Men-at-Arms
    In 1918 war broke out for Poland's independence, involving the the Poles, the Red and White Russian armies, at least two different Ukrainian forces, and Allied intervention troops.The armies that fought these campaigns were extraordinarily varied in their uniforms and insignia, equipment and weapons, and when peace was signed in 1921, Poland had achieved recognised nationhood for the first time ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Dacia

    Land of Transylvania, Cornerstone of Ancient Eastern Europe

    by Ion Grumeza ...
    This book tells the little known story of Dacia, the powerful and rich land that became Transylvania and Romania. This kingdom was once the cornerstone of Eastern Europe. By A.D. 1, Dacia was the third largest military power in Europe, after the Romans and Germans. Most historians mistook the Dacians for Sarmatians, Scythians, even Slavs. This book revives the Dacian history and contributes to our ... Read more

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  • Making Yugoslavs

    Identity in King Aleksandar's Yugoslavia

    by Christian Axboe Nielsen ...
    When Yugoslavia was created in 1918, the new state was a patchwork of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and other ethnic groups. It still was in January 1929, when King Aleksandar suspended the Yugoslav constitution and began an ambitious program to impose a new Yugoslav national identity on his subjects. By the time Aleksandar was killed by an assassin’s bullet five years later, he not only had failed to ... Read more

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    by Ivana Bodrozic ...
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  • Escape into Danger

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    by Sophia Orlosvky Williams ...
    This WWII memoir tells the remarkable story of a Ukrainian girl's perilous adventures and coming of age amid the chaos of war.Born in Kiev to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, Sophia Williams chose to be identified as Jewish when she became eligible for a Soviet passport at age sixteen. She had no way of realizing the life-changing consequences of her decision. When Germany invaded Russia the ... Read more

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  • Market Dreams

    Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic

    by Elaine Susan Weiner ...
    Drawing on a rich trove of focus group data, interviews, and textual sources, Elaine Weiner's Market Dreams powerfully captures the varied responses of female managers and factory workers in the Czech Republic to their country's transition from socialism to capitalism. Her work, rooted in sociology and comparative feminism, is an important advance for the literature on women in Eastern Europe. ... Read more

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