Eastern Europe category: 1864 books
Nine Lives
Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
By any standards, Waldermar Lotnik's experience of the Second World War was remarkable. Fighting in the Polish Resistance, his unit was engaged in a bitter ethnic conflict with pro-Nazi Ukrainians. Unknown in the West, this struggle was, like that raging at the same time between Serbs and Croats,...
by Steven J. Zaloga
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Poland was the first of the Allied nations to succumb to German aggression in the Second World War, but by the most tortuous of routes her army managed to remain in the field through all five years of bloody fighting. Polish soldiers fought in nearly every major campaign in the European theatre, and...
No Greater Ally
The Untold Story of Poland’s Forces in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
There is a chapter of World War II history that remains largely untold; the monumental struggles of an entire nation have been forgotten, and even intentionally obscured. Giving a full overview of Poland's participation in World War II. Following their valiant but doomed defence of Poland in 1939,...
Operation Barbarossa
The German Invasion of Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
When Hitler ordered the start of Operation Barbarossa, millions of German soldiers flooded into Russia, believing that their rapid blitzkrieg tactics would result in the an easy victory similar to the ones enjoyed by the Wehrmacht over Poland and France. But the huge human resources at the disposal...
Finland at War
The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941–45
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
In the aftermath of the Winter War, Finland found itself drawing ever closer to Nazi Germany and eventually took part in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. For the Finns this was a chance to right the wrongs of the Winter War, and having reached suitable defensive positions, the army was ordered to halt....
Operation Nemesis
The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide
In 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an accountant, a life insurance salesman, a newspaper...
Empires of the Silk Road
A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires,...
Armies of the Volga Bulgars & Khanate of Kazan
9th–16th centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
The Bulgars were a Turkic people who established a state north of the Black Sea. In the late 500s and early 600s AD their state fragmented under pressure from the Khazars; one group moved south into what became Bulgaria, but the rest moved north during the 7th and 8th centuries to the basin of the...
A Lucky Child
A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Thomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Auschwitz at age 10 after surviving two ghettos and a labor camp. Separated first from his mother and then his father, Buergenthal...
by Heda Margolius Kovály
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Heda Margolius Kovály (1919-2010) was a renowned Czech writer and translator born to Jewish parents. Her bestselling memoir, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968 has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her crime novel Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street-based on her own...
Collective Memories of a Lost Paradise
Jewish Agricultural Settlements in Ukraine During the 1920s and 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Author’s Visits to Ukraine Inform History and Inspire a Memoir In April, 2011, Robert Belenky set off on a trip to Ukraine. His goal was to record the memories of Jews who survived the era spanning post-Revolutionary Russia, the Holocaust, and World War II Belenky had a special interest in that period....
Until Our Last Breath
A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
"This is a powerful tale of the triumph of love under extremely difficult conditions. " - Publishers Weekly
At Leizer Bart's funeral, one of the mourners told his son Michael that the gravestone should include a reference to the Freedom Fighters of Nekamah, to honor his late father's...
The Forgotten 500
The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the GreatestRescue Mission of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The astonishing, never before told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II—when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia...
During a bombing campaign over Romanian oil fields, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied...
The Belzec Death Camp
History, Biographies, Remembrance
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This book is a comprehensive account of the Belzec death camp in Poland, which was the first death camp to use static gas chambers as part of the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program. It covers the construction and the development of the mechanisms of mass murder. The story is painstakingly told from...