Baltic States category: 120 books
Death in the Baltic
The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The worst maritime disaster ever occurred during World War II, when more than 9,000 German civilians drowned. It went unreported.
January 1945: The outcome of World War II has been determined. The Third Reich is in free fall as the Russians close in from the east. Berlin plans an eleventh-hour...
The Baltic
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From the Vikings to the EU the Baltic has been a Nordic Mediterranean, a shared maritime zone with distinct patterns of trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. Covering a thousand years in a part of the globe where seas are more connective than land, Michael North’s overview transforms the way we think about one of the world’s great waterways.
Latvia
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2015
The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe. One branch of these migrants coalesced into a community which evolved a distinctive and remarkably robust culture and language, and which eventually developed...
Litva: The Rise and Fall of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The fascinating history of a Baltic empire’s dominance and decline—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished Kingdoms
Vanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt...
The Baltic World 1772-1993
Europe's Northern Periphery in an Age of Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This eagerly-awaited sequel shares the characteristics of its distinguished predecessor -- wide geographical and chronological span; expert mingling of political, social and economic history; and Dr Kirby's ability to keep the separate national threads of his account from tangling as he weaves them...
Rails Across Europe
Northern and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The two volumes covering Rails Across Europe are divided into one, covering the North and West of the continent, the other dealing with the South and East.
The photos were taken by David Cable, a well-regarded author of several photographic albums of trains throughout the world, supplemented...
Between East and West
Across the Borderlands of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
In the summer and fall of 1991, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain, took a three month road trip through the freshly independent borderlands of Eastern Europe. She deftly weaves the harrowing history of the region and captures the effects of political upheaval...
Gustavus Adolphus
A History of the Art of War from Its Revival After the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, With a Detailed Account of the Campaigns of the Great Swede
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
A grand sweeping military history of the “pike and shot” era, with a particular emphasis on the Thirty Years’ War in Europe (1618–1648). Originally published in two volumes, the first covers the life of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and known as “The Lion of the North” by his many...
The New Estonian Golden Age
How Estonia Will Rise To Be One Of Europe's Five Richest Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
The New Estonian Golden Age introduces an alternative view on age-old and controversial topics that are holding up Estonian aspirations of prosperity. Estonia, known as "The Baltic Tiger", is one of New Europe's most impressive economic turn-around stories since gaining independence from the Soviet Union...
The Northern Wars
War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558 - 1721
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This book provides an accessible study of the neglected but highly important series of wars fought for control of the Baltic and Northeastern Europe during the period 1558-1721. It is the first comprehensive history which considers the revolution in military strategy which took place in the battlefields...
German Submarine Warfare in World War I
The Onset of Total War at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
This compelling book explores Germany’s campaign of unrestricted submarine warfare in World War I, which marked the onset of total war at sea. Noted historian Lawrence Sondhaus shows how the undersea campaign, intended as an antidote to Britain’s more conventional blockade of German ports, ultimately...
To End a War
The Conflict in Yugoslavia--America's Inside Story--Negotiating with Milosevic
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiator in late 1995, he took a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.
As...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
The violence of Yugoslavia is soaked in historical injustice and nationalist tradition. Its historical mold is not unique; but the world's reaction is. The ongoing failure of Yugoslavia and its fractious cascade of regime changes are a product of flawed intervention. United States intervention failed...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
This comprehensive ebook presents fourteen unique reports and studies of the 1999 Clinton Administration military intervention in the Kosovo war, known as Operation Allied Force. Contents:Part 1: Religious and Ethnic Warfare: The Kosovo Case * Part 2: Analysis of the Modern Inter-Ethnic Conflict:...