Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
by Simon Dubnow
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
3 works of Simon Dubnow Jewish historian, writer and activist (1860-1941)
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Table of Contents: History of the Jews in Russia and Poland - Volume...
by Eldina Pleho
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Western Balkans, and specifically Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, are lagging significantly on the path to EU integration. Even twenty years after the conflict, these countries are burdened by ethnic and post conflict issues which hinder their progress on the path to EU integration.
There...
Before the Nation
Muslim-Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late-Ottoman Anatolia
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
It is common for survivors of ethnic cleansing and even genocide to speak nostalgically about earlier times of intercommunal harmony and brotherhood. After being driven from their Anatolian homelands, Greek Orthodox refugees insisted that they 'lived well with the Turks', and yearned for the days...
The National Question in Yugoslavia
Origins, History, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Even before it collapsed into civil war, ethnic cleansing, and dissolution, Yugoslavia was an archetypical example of a troubled multinational mosaic, a state without a single national base or even a majority. Its stability and very existence were challenged repeatedly by the tension between the pressures...
Witnessing Romania's Century of Turmoil
Memoirs of a Political Prisoner
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Nicolae Margineanu's journey started in 1905 in the village of Obreja in Transylvania and ended in 1980 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He began his life under Austro-Hungarian rule, was witness to the 1918 Union, lived under three kings (Ferdinand, Carol II, and Mihai), and survived all of Romania's dictatorships,...
by W. Baring Pemberton
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Originally published in 1938, this is a book on the life of Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford (1732-1792), otherwise known by his courtesy title, Lord North.
Lord North was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770-1782 and led Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence....
by Diane Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.
1939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only to see the occupiers ruthlessly kill many of their animals. The Nazis...
Anne Frank's Family
The Extraordinary Story of Where She Came From, Based on More Than 6,000 Newly Discovered Letters, Documents, and Photos
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
The story is one that is envisioned by many: a relative, an old woman who has lived in the same home for a lifetime, passes away, her death prompting the inevitable task of sorting through her effects by her surviving family. But in the attic in this particular house, a treasure trove of historic...
Children of Armenia
A Forgotten Genocide and the Century-long Struggle for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and slaughtered 1.5 million of them in the process. While there was an initial global outcry and a movement led by Woodrow Wilson to aid the “starving Armenians,” the promises to hold the perpetrators accountable...
Sobibor
A History of a Nazi Death Camp
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Auschwitz. Treblinka. The very names of these Nazi camps evoke unspeakable cruelty. Sobibör is less well known, and this book discloses the horrors perpetrated there.Established in German-occupied Poland, the camp at Sobibör began its dreadful killing operation in May 1942. By October 1943, approximately...
by Leon Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Growing up Jewish in the little town, or shtetl, of Eisiskes near the Polish-Lithuanian border, Leon Kahn experienced a peaceful childhood until September 1, 1939 when Hitler’s forces attacked Poland. Only sixteen years of age, Kahn watched as the women and children of his community were herded...
Peasants under Siege
The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
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...
The House of the Dead
Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Winner of the Cundill History Prize
The House of the Dead tells the incredible hundred-year-long story of “the vast prison without a roof” that was Russia’s Siberian penal colony. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the Russian Revolution, the tsars exiled more than a million...
by Nigel Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In 1917 Poland was recognised as a state by Russia, but the Bolshevik coup threatened this. The Polish leader Marshal Pilsudski hurried to build an army around Polish World War I veterans, and in 1918 war broke out for Poland's independence, involving the the Poles, the Red and White Russian armies,...