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Heritage eBook Series

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  • Croatia

    Land, People, Culture Volume I

    Edited by Christopher Spalatin, Francis Eterovich ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book represents a survey of the cultural and economic life of the Croatian people, who have long been noted for their significant contributions to the arts and the humanities. It contains a wealth of factual information on various aspects of one of the most interesting regions in Europe.The authors of the articles which make up this work are all specialists in their respective fields. They ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Croatia

    Land, People, Culture Volume II

    Edited by Christopher Spalatin, Francis Eterovich ...
    Series series Heritage
    This volume continues the story of the cultural and political history of the Croatian people who have long been noted for their significant contributions to the arts and the humanities. It examines the Croatian language, literature to 1835, the maritime history of the eastern Adriatic, Croatian political history from 1526 to 1918, the development of book printing, the ethnic and religious history ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger

    Revised Edition

    by Carolyn Gammon, Israel Unger ...
    Series series Life Writing
    At the beginning of the Nazi period, 25,000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end of the Second World War, nine remained. Like Anne Frank, Israel Unger and his family hid for two years in an attic crawl space above the Dagnan flour mill in Tarnow. Their stove was the chimney that went up through the attic; their windows were cracks in the wall. Survival depended on the food the adults ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Scottish Fairy And Folk Tales

    by Sir George Douglas ...
    Scottish Fairy and Folk Talesby Sir George DouglasTreasury of fanciful, picturesque narratives—assembled by noted folklorist and recounted in their native vernacular—tell of brownies, kelpies, mermen and other supernatural creatures that assist, annoy and otherwise meddle in the lives of simple Scottish country folk. A delightful collection of imaginative and entertaining nursery and fairy tales, ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • The Haunted Land

    Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Tina Rosenberg ...
    **The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe“The definitive account of what the transition away from communism in Eastern Europe has meant in moral terms. Brilliant and impassioned.” —LA Times Book Review**In four newly democratic countries in Eastern Europe, communism’s former victims and jailers are struggling to make sense of their history—and sometimes ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The 1956 Hungarian Revolution

    Hungarian and Canadian Perspectives

    Edited by Christopher Adam, Tibor Egervari, Leslie Laczko, Judy Young ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    In October 1956, a spontaneous uprising took Hungarian Communist authorities by surprise, prompting Soviet authorities to invade the country. After a few days of violent fighting, the revolt was crushed. In the wake of the event, some 200,000 refugees left Hungary, 35,000 of whom made their way to Canada. This would be the first time Canada would accept so many refugees of a single origin, setting ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Athene Palace

    Hitler's "New Order" Comes to Rumania

    by R.G. Waldeck ...
    "The most vivid report, long or short, I have ever seen on Romania . . . brilliantly written and mercilessly barbed . . . unusually skillful and readable." — The New York TimesOn the day that Paris fell to the Nazis, R. G. Waldeck was checking into the swankiest hotel in Bucharest, the Athene Palace. A cosmopolitan center during the war, the hotel was populated by Italian and German oilmen hoping ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medieval Polish Armies 966–1500

    by Dr David Nicolle, Witold Sarnecki ...
    Series Book 445 - Men-at-Arms
    The fascinating history of a war-torn state that emerged with a strong Medieval army that became one of the dominating powers of Eastern Europe.Poland became a unified Christian state in AD 966 and by the 12th century a knightly class had emerged - a force that was integral to the defence of Poland against increasingly frequent foreign invasions. Intent on crushing rival Christian states, the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Luminous Future

    by Teodor Flonta ...
    In 1946 ominous clouds are gathering on the narrow horizon of Lupoaia (Valley of the Wolves), a little village in Transylvania, where traditions, steeped in prejudice and superstition, have endured over many generations. The Second World War is over but the lives of the villagers are thrown into turmoil with the imposition of drastic, senseless changes by a new regime, intent on creating a new man ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagining the Balkans

    by Maria Todorova ...
    "If the Balkans hadn't existed, they would have been invented" was the verdict of Count Hermann Keyserling in his famous 1928 publication, Europe. Over ten years ago, Maria Todorova traced the relationship between the reality and the invention. Based on a rich selection of travelogues, diplomatic accounts, academic surveys, journalism, and belles-lettres in many languages, Imagining the Balkans ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Polish-Jewish Relations 1939-1945

    Beyond the Limits of Solidarity

    by Ewa Kurek ...
    The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that were published in Polin (Oxford: Institute for Polish Jewish Studies), Embracing the Other (New York University Press) and From ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Peasants under Siege

    The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962

    by Gail Kligman, Katherine Verdery ...
    In 1949, Romania's fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model. Peasants under Siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far-reaching social engineering process that ensued. Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery examine how collectivization assaulted the very foundations of rural ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD