Europe category: 12800 books
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...
Fear
Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
An astonishing and heartbreaking study of the Polish Holocaust survivors who returned home only to face continued violence and anti-Semitism at the hands of their neighbors
“[Fear] culminates in so keen a shock that even a student of the Jewish tragedy during World War II cannot fail to feel...
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...
A Little War That Shook the World
Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of...
Croatia
Land, People, Culture Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1964
This book represents a survey of the cultural and economic life of the Croatian people, who have long been noted for their significant contributions to the arts and the humanities. It contains a wealth of factual information on various aspects of one of the most interesting regions in Europe.
The...
The Slovak National Awakening
An Essay in the Intellectual History of East Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
The Slovaks lived under Hungarian rule for centuries, with no clear sense of political separateness, preserving Slovak as their spoken language, but using Czech as their written language. In the last decades of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, the efforts made by clerical intellectuals...
Russia's Last Gasp
The Eastern Front 1916–17
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-Hungarian commands held high hopes for 1916. After the success of the 1915 Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive, which had driven Russia out of Galicia and Poland,...
Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces (1)
31 BC–AD 195
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
At its height the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, maintained by an army of modest size but great diversity. In popular culture these soldiers are often portrayed in a generic fashion,
but continuing research indicates significant variations in Roman armour and...
by Hilaire Belloc
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Hilaire Belloc’s landmark study Characters of the Reformation argues that Western Europe’s break from the Catholic Church was driven by a land-grab and looting of Church property by European noblemen. Belloc has little admiration for the so-called leaders of the time and credits the Reformation...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Transylvania (Romania) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Moldova Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
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Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection,...
The Burdens of Freedom
Eastern Europe since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
From Estonia to Macedonia, this book is a history of 15 countries as they negotiate their transition from communism. For some, the story ends happily, with triumphant entry into the European Union in 2004.Others are caught in limbo, destroyed by nationalist politics, war and genocide, or crippled...
by Diane Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2008
2008 Orion Book Award
The New York Times bestseller: a true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw—and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers...