Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
by Luca Leone, Carla Del Ponte
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Srebrenica represents a dark and painful chapter in late twentieth-century European history. Here, a still unknown number of Bosnian Muslim citizens were tortured and killed in July 1995. About 8.500 deaths have so far been confirmed, but survivors say 10.701 people died as a result of the blind and...
Balkan Departures
Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
In writings about travel, the Balkans appear most often as a place travelled to. Western accounts of the Balkans revel in the different and the exotic, the violent and the primitive − traits that serve (according to many commentators) as a foil to self-congratulatory definitions of the West as modern,...
Stalin’s Nose
Across the Face of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
In Rory MacLean's ground breaking debut, Winston the pig drops onto uncle Peter's head and kills him dead. It is a distressing end to a distinguished Soviet spy. After the funeral aunt Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and a vivacious eccentric, refuses to remain at home in East Germany. Instead she...
Modern Albania
From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe’s most closed and repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read “decadent” Western literature began to...
by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and occupied the republic of Poland, dividing the country between them. Some two hundred thousand Polish soldiers became prisoners of war in Russian camps, which were often converted monasteries. In March 1940, Joseph Stalin approved a plan to...
In War's Wake
Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees. Never in modern times had so many been so destitute and displaced. No longer subjects of a single nation-state, this motley group of enemies and victims consisted of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, ex-Soviet POWs, ex-forced laborers in the Third Reich,...
The Essential Guide to Being Polish
50 Facts & Facets of Nationhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Being Polish is no joke. For ten million people of Polish ancestry in the United States, as well as many who have settled in the UK since the fall of communism, it is a heartfelt matter⎯and amid all the travel guides and guides to Polish language, folklore, and customs, there is no single, comprehensive,...
Rethinking East-Central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Volume 1: Contexts and analyses Volume 2: Data quality assessments, documentation, and bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book reconstructs fundamental aspects of family organization across historical Poland-Lithuania, one of the largest political entities in early modern Europe. Using a plethora of quantitative measurements and demographic microsimulation, the author captures and elucidates the complex patterns...
33 Castles, Battles, Legends
Hungarian-Ottoman War Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Europe was torn by religious and dynastic wars in the 16th century while the mighty Ottoman Empire was getting ready to conquer the countries of the Christian world. The Hungarians had contributed vastly more than their share to the steady development of the European civilization in this time.Unfortunately,...
German Armour Lost on the Eastern Front
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Rare photographs from both German and Russian sources : Today there are very few surviving vehicles from the Wehrmacht. which illustrate the fate of many of the armoured fighting vehicles of Hitler’s much vaunted Panzerwaffe-
by Patricia Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Bulgaria. Bulgaria is a country in the Balkans on the western side of the Black Sea. It is surrounded by Romania to the north, Serbia to the northwest, the Republic of Macedonia to the southwest, Greece to the south, and Turkey to the southeast. Being...
Azerbaijan - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
For Westerners, the modern state of Azerbaijan may be hard to pinpoint. This small, oil-rich country in the southern Caucasus, on the southwestern shore of the Caspian Sea, only made its way on to the contemporary world map after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. As the world shrinks and...
Travel eGuide: Prague & its region
Discover the pearl of the Czech Republic and Central Europe!
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Would you like to discover a gorgeous cuty full of palaces, castles, churches and architectural jewelry?
So… Welcome to Prague & its region!
Want to discover the history, be dazzled by the beauty of a harmonious blend of architectural styles and taste a varied gastronomy with...
Transregional versus National Perspectives on Contemporary Central European History
Studies on the Building of Nation-States and Their Cooperation in the 20th and 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This volume compares different regional perspectives on the national and democracy-building aims of individual states. It confronts discourses about national states to regional perspectives on the past as well as the current political and social landscape. Why are we observing calls for national identity...