Eastern Europe category: 1864 books

Based on previously classified documents, the true account of a top-secret Cold War operation: the CIA’s failed attempt to spark rebellion in Albania.   In 1949, a newly minted branch of the CIA (the precursor of today’s National Clandestine Service) hatched an elaborate plan to roll back the...

Unlocked Memories is a collection of memories that were shared by Russians who witnessed the German invasion of the Leningrad region in 1941. All were children or young people during World War Two and nearly all were natives of Luga, Oredezh, or villages that were clustered around these two towns....

A Dutch-American historian, journalist, and award-winning children's book author. Contents The Story of Mankind Ancient Man, The Beginning of Civilizations The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 (1915) The Story of Mankind- Most widely known among these...

Historians have claimed that Stalingrad was one of the fiercest and most harrowing battles fought in World War II. In August of 1942, Hitler’s army reached the doorstep of the motherland (thanks to his blitzkrieg tactics) and prepared for one of the longest and most violent battles in human history....

This book, is a narrative as told by Mrs. Esther Mugerditchian of her family's escape from Armenia, and the atrocities she and her children witnessed during their escape. She originally wrote this to her husband, Mr. Tovmas K.Mugerditchian, an Armenian pastor who became attached to the British Oriental...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb now presents the crucial second act--the attempt to form a Russian state from the ruins of the U.S.S.R. and the chaotic election of 1996. As before, readers will turn to Remnick for the essential story, the flesh-and-blood account of one of history's great turning points.

Belarus have been under struggle, find out more about this country, and its sovereignty, the entire history of Belarus, the environment, Belarus people, Belarus culture, Belarus government, Belarus politics, Belarus tourism, and business environment, Belarus history book will provide you all the information...

Was the Soviet Union a superpower? Red Globalization is a significant rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global economy. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony challenges the idea that the Soviet Union represented a parallel socio-economic construct to the liberal world economy. Instead...

Several short studies of Russia during the 1890's. The Social Fabric of Russia describes life at the Court of St Petersberg as well as life in the country. The Palaces of Petersberg explores the art and Architecture of the Capital. Art at the Kremlin exhibits the art and architecture of the Palace...

In this all-new addition to the People of Wisconsin series, author Susan Mikos traces the history of Polish immigrants as they settled in America’s northern heartland. The second largest immigrant population after Germans, Poles put down roots in all corners of the state, from the industrial center...

An American makes the trek across Siberia via horse, carriage and sled, during the mid nineteenth century. Original Illustrations included.

Legacy of Rescue: A Daughter’s Tribute is an illustrated intergenerational memoir of the author’s father, Morton (Miksa) Fuchs, and Zoltán Kubinyi, the Commanding Officer who saved him and over 100 other Hungarian Jewish men in forced labor under his command during the Holocaust. ...

Elegant and concise, this childhood memoir of Andy Grove, one of the pioneers of Silicon Valley, begins in Budapest, Hungary where the author was born into a secular Jewish family in 1936. As a small child, Andris Grof was told, “Jesus Christ was killed by the Jews, and because of that, all of the...

An NYRB Classics Original Few writers had to confront as many of the last century’s mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman, who wrote with terrifying clarity about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Terror Famine in the Ukraine. An Armenian Sketchbook, however, shows us a very different...