Europe category: 12800 books
by Jan Zaprudnik, Vitali Silitski Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
The political map of Eastern Europe changed dramatically in December 1991 when the leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine huddled together in a Bielavieza Forest retreat and decided to dissolve the 15 union republics, which composed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). One of those republics...
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Written by locals, Fodor’s Essential Germany is the perfect guidebook for those looking for insider tips to make the most out their visit to Munich, Berlin, the Bavarian Alps and beyond. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this Germany travel guide will help you plan your trip...
The Last Palace
Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants
When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had...
The Politics of Greed
How Privatization Structured Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2006
With the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, it seemed that market capitalism had triumphed and that democracy might replace authoritarian regimes. Economic reformers in the former Eastern Bloc rushed to liberalize prices and transfer state assets to private hands. They assumed that private owners in...
Whose Memory? Which Future?
Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, state policies, and the lived experiences of victims. Yet much less attention has been given to how these incidents persist in collective memory today. This volume...
Ukraine & the United States: Unexpected Ways Two Nations Affected Each Other
unexpected ways two nations affected each other
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Condensed and exciting story of the great country of Ukraine from the time it was the greatest Kingdom of Medieval Europe known as Kiev Rus to the present days. It's about Vikings, Cossacks, planes, helicopters, rockets, ballistic missiles and much more.
The book will try to explain why Ukraine is not Russia and what vital role Ukraine played in the world history including WWII.
The Fortress
The Siege of Przemysl and the Making of Europe's Bloodlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2020
A prizewinning historian tells the dramatic story of the siege that changed the course of the First World War
In September 1914, just a month into World War I, the Russian army laid siege to the fortress city of Przemysl, the Hapsburg Empire's most important bulwark against invasion. For six...
by Jay Wertz
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
*The World Turns to War weaves stories of combat veterans into an event-by-event history of the war. Includes the words of veterans of all forces — in all theaters of operation. Illustrated by high-quality photographs, full-color images and detailed maps,
War Stories: World War II Firsthand™...
by Laurence Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
This new, thoroughly updated fifth edition of Bradt's Serbia remains the most acclaimed guide available to a country which in recent years has welcomed an increasing number of foreign tourists to discover its attractive rolling countryside, lively cities, excellent food and friendly people. Development...
The Left Transformed in Post-Communist Societies
The Cases of East-Central Europe, Russia, and Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
One of the most unexpected outcomes of the Soviet bloc's transition out of communism has been the divergent but important paths followed by once ruling communist parties. In Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania those parties transformed themselves into pro-Western free market center leftists who have won...
The Dutch Moment
War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long...
Travels through History - The Balkans
Journeys in the former Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
The Macedonians build a fountain and upset the Greeks. Villages on the road to Lake Ohrid fly Albanian flags instead of Macedonian ones. Kosovan taxi drivers believe fundamentalists are being sponsored in their country by former foes. Dubrovnik is so popular a one-way system is now in operation on the...
Walking in the New Forest
30 Walks in the New Forest National Park
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
This guidebook describes 30 day walks of between 3 and 10 miles set right across the New Forest National Park. Suitable for all abilities, the walks can easily be combined into longer routes for greater challenges, through woodland, heath and along the coast, all illustrated with large-scale OS map...
by Bernard Joerger
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2018
If you hate boring history, so this book is your best friend!
Crack The French Revolution Will Stop Making History So Freaking Boring.
To reduce the debt of the state, King Louis XVI. On the 5th of May, 1789, entered the Generalate, and introduced mercantilism. As a first and second...