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  • After Yugoslavia

    The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land

    Edición de Radmila Gorup ...
    Series series Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern Europe
    The book brings together many of the best known commentators and scholars who write about former Yugoslavia. The essays focus on the post-Yugoslav cultural transition and try to answer questions about what has been gained and what has been lost since the dissolution of the common country. Most of the contributions can be seen as current attempts to make sense of the past and help cultures in ... Leer más

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  • Croatia: A Nation Forged in War

    de Marcus Tanner ...
    From the ashes of former Yugoslavia an independent Croatian state has arisen, the fulfillment, in the words of President Franjo Tudjman, of the Croats' "thousand-year-old dream of independence." Yet few countries in Europe have been born amid such bitter controversy and bloodshed: the savage war between pro-independence forces and the Yugoslav army left about one-third of the country in ruins and ... Leer más

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  • Golden Harvest:Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust

    Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust

    It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become horrific skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing? The ... Leer más

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  • The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople

    In 1202, zealous Western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by the shrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on Constantinople, wreaking terrible devastation. The crusaders spared no one: They raped and massacred thousands, plundered churches, and torched the lavish city. By ... Leer más

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  • Athene Palace

    Hitler's "New Order" Comes to Rumania

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Blue Helmets and Black Markets

    The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo

    de Peter Andreas ...
    The 1992–1995 battle for Sarajevo was the longest siege in modern history. It was also the most internationalized, attracting a vast contingent of aid workers, UN soldiers, journalists, smugglers, and embargo-busters. The city took center stage under an intense global media spotlight, becoming the most visible face of post-Cold War conflict and humanitarian intervention. However, some critical ... Leer más

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  • Armies of the Balkan Wars 1912–13

    The priming charge for the Great War

    de Philip Jowett ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    In 1912, the Balkan states formed an alliance in an effort to break free from the crumbling Ottoman Empire.Forming an army of some 645,000 troops from Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, they took on a force of 400,000 Turkish soldiers. Both sides were equipped with the latest weapons technology.This book looks at the diverse and sometimes colourful uniforms worn by both sides, paying special ... Leer más

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  • I Wish It Were Fiction

    Holocaust Memories - 1938–1945

    The writer of this memoir, Aaron Starkman, was barely 20 years old, when he was driven in into the Nazi Hitler hell. He decided to keep a diary, where he made notes of everything that was happening. He did not know whether he would survive. When he was liberated, he gathered all the notes and deposited them with the Warsaw Jewish Historical Institute. Unfortunately, few of the survivors kept notes ... Leer más

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  • Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union

    Series series New Studies in European History
    Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union explores the nature of political protest in the USSR during the decade following the death of Stalin. Using sources drawn from the archives of the Soviet Procurator's office, the Communist Party, the Komsomol and elsewhere, Hornsby examines the emergence of underground groups, mass riots and public attacks on authority as well as the ways ... Leer más

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  • The Development of Spiritual Life in Bosnia under the Influence of Turkish Rule

    de Ivo Andric ...
    Ivo Andric (1892-1975), Nobel Prize laureate for literature in 1961, is undoubtedly the most popular of all contemporary Yugoslav writers. Over the span of fifty-two years some 267 of his works have been published in thirty-three languages. Andric’s doctoral dissertation, The Development of Spiritual Life in Bosnia under the Influence of Turkish Rule (1924), never before translated into English, ... Leer más

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  • The History of the Russo-Japanese War

    Enriched edition. Complete History of the Conflict: From Causes of the War and Korean Campaign to the Peace Treaty

    Sydney Tyler's 'The History of the Russo-Japanese War' is a meticulously researched account of one of the most significant conflicts of the early 20th century. Tyler presents a detailed narrative of the events leading up to the war, the major battles, and the eventual outcome, shedding light on the political and military strategies employed by both sides. Written in a clear and engaging style, the ... Leer más

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  • The Polish August

    What has happened in Poland? Poland has erupted four times in the last twenty five years, but only the events of 1980 have had comprehensive media coverage. As a result, many questions have been raised in the minds of Western observers. How were such changes possible? What forces lay behind them? In what way did the workers' strike relate to the demands for political democracy? Although a ... Leer más

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