Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
by Christa Klickermann
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
What Europe is and what it should be is often the subject of passionate debate. A unique concept whereby several nations are brought together under a humane, democratic system? The strongest economy in the world? A patchwork of different cultures? A tolerant home for freethinkers and the persecuted?...
Nations Of Europe
Fun Facts about Europe for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Children enjoy learning about cultures that differ from what they are accustomed to. A Nations of Europe picture book opens the door to new experiences, and introduces children to new ideas and concepts through learning about the differences and commonalities between nations. Exposing children to other...
Hungary - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
A landlocked country in the heart of Europe, Hungary was a powerful medieval kingdom. Intimately involved in European history and culture, the Hungarians have always been proud of their distinctive identity, reinforced by the fact that their language bears no resemblance to that of any of their neighbors....
by Marina Soroka
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book is about the European health spas of the nineteenth century: what they were, how they operated, what life was like there and how their functions evolved to the point where their original medicinal purpose was relegated to a secondary place by the unintended uses of spas as stages of social...
A Short History of Europe
From Pericles to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe--a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great
In just a few hundred years, a modest peninsula off the northwest corner of Asia has seen the...
by R.G. Waldeck
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
As European capitals fell during 1940 and 1941, there swarmed to the Athene Palace, Bucharest's Grand Hotel, diplomats, generals, Gestapo spies, and demi-mondaines from all over Europe. Arriving at the crowded Athene Palace on the day Paris fell in 1940, the American female journalist Rosa Goldschmidt...
by Claude Roudeau
Language: French
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Tout au long de ma vie, un attrait pour la "différence" me fera beaucoup voyager, regarder, ...apprendre. Modestement. Loin des palaces.
Ravi de découvrir des lieux, des monuments, des paysages, mais plus encore des gens, dans leur travail, leur mode de vie, leur façon d'être...
by Nathan Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Prague, Czech Republic. Prague is the capital city and largest city of the Czech Republic. It is one of the larger cities of Central Europe and has served as the capital of the historic region of Bohemia for centuries. This magical city of bridges,...
by Maria Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Helsinki, Finland. Founded in 1550, Helsinki the "Daughter of the Baltic" has been the Finnish capital since 1812, when it was rebuilt by the tsars of Russia along the lines of a miniature St. Petersburg, a role it has played in many a Cold...
by Rough Guides
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Discover Prague with the most knowledgeable and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan to explore the hidden gems of the Old Town, sightsee by tram or simply enjoy the best beer in the world, The Rough Guide to Prague will show you ideal places to sleep, eat, drink, relax and shop...
Center Stage
Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long"...
The Greatest Battle
Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
The battle for Moscow was the biggest battle of World War II -- the biggest battle of all time. And yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops. From the time Hitler launched his assault on Moscow on September 30, 1941, to April 20, 1942, seven million...
The Early Slavs
Eastern Europe from the Initial Settlement to the Kievan Rus
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The history of the early Slavs is a subject of renewed interest and one which is highly controversial both politically and historically. This pioneering text reviews the latest archaelogical (and other) evidence concerning the first settlers, their cultural identities and their relationship with their...
The Magic Lantern
The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections -- in which Solidarity found itself in the position of trying to limit the scope of...