Baltic States category: 120 books
by Hugh Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
How did the Davidic line/Ulvungars/Normans conquered England? This is the Saga of the great Ulvungar Dynasty and their plan to counter the hegemony of Roman Christianity, by counter attacking, first with Viking raids and later by conquest and settlement. Shows the web of marriages, alliances and the...
The Great Game of Genocide
Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
The Great Game of Genocide addresses the origins, development and aftermath of the Armenian genocide in a wide-ranging reappraisal based on primary and secondary sources from all the major parties involved. Rejecting the determinism of many influential studies, and discarding polemics on all sides,...
Estonia and the Estonians
Second Edition, Updated
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2002
A comprehensive survey of Estonian history, placing recent events into historical perspective. The author analyzes the country's post-communist transition, its strategic geopolitical location, and the role of ethnic Estonians in shaping the history of the area.
Eyewitness in the Crimea
The Crimean War Letters of Lieutenant Colonel George Frederick Dallas
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2006
Provides access to the thoughts of an officer at the forefront of the fighting in the Crimea. By turns gripping and analytical, colorful and bleak, the letters of George Frederick Dallas create an honest portrait of a war fought against a backdrop of terrible neglect.
A Short Border Handbook
A Journey Through the Immigrant's Labyrinth
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A unique perspective on being an immigrant - Kapllani, who left Albania in 1991 to make his home in Greece, diagnoses the malaise of "border syndrome" by relating key episodes in his own experience and that of those migrants who accompanied him.
A wonderful, memorable cast of characters:...
Skylarks and Rebels
A Memoir about the Soviet Russian Occupation of Latvia, Life in a Totalitarian State, and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Skylarks and Rebels is a story about the fate of Latvia in the 20th century as told by Rita Laima. Laima, a Latvian-American, chose to leave behind the comforts of life in America to explore the land of her ancestors, which in the 1980s languished behind the Iron Curtain. In writing about her own...
Kith, Kin, and Neighbors
Communities and Confessions in Seventeenth-Century Wilno
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the mid-seventeenth century, Wilno (Vilnius), the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Ruthenians, Jews, and Tatars, who worshiped in Catholic, Uniate, Orthodox, Calvinist, and Lutheran churches, one synagogue, and one mosque. Visitors regularly...
by Raymond Beazley
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
Russia: from the Varangians to the Bolsheviks is a fabulous overview of t 1,000 years of Russian history.
by Rein Raud
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Winner of the Eduard Vilde Literary Award
The Brother opens with a mysterious stranger arriving in a small town controlled by a group of men-men who recently cheated the stranger's supposed sister out of her inheritance and mother's estate. Resigned to giving up on her dreams and ambitions,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This is a professionally-formatted, free flowing ebook reproduction of unique, up-to-date guides produced by the Department of Defense that provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Serbia, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military...
by Dalia Grinkevičiūtė
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
An extraordinary piece of international survival literature, joining the likes of Primo Levi and Anne Frank.
In 1941, 14-year-old Dalia and her family are deported from their native Lithuania to a labour camp in Siberia. As the strongest member of her family she submits to twelve hours a day...
by Katherine Holman
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2003
The Historical Dictionary of the Vikings traces Viking activity in Europe, North America, and Asia for over three centuries. During this period people from Scandinavia used their longships to launch lightning raids upon their European neighbors, to colonize new lands in the east and west, and to exchange...
L'Europa oltre il muro
Vent’anni di viaggi e incontri nei Paesi dell’Est
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Vent’anni di viaggi nell’Europa orientale in nome e per conto del Parlamento europeo, l’odore del sangue delle guerre e del cherosene bruciato che dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino caratterizza tanti Paesi dell’Est del continente, attraversati da masse di poveri sempre più poveri e dominati...
Balkan Legacies of the Great War
The Past is Never Dead
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This is a rich yet succinct account of an underexplored story: the consequences of the Great War for the region which ignited it. It offers a fascinating tapestry: the collapse of Empires, the birth of Turkey and Yugoslavia, Greece as both victor and loser, Bulgaria's humiliating defeat; bitter memories,...