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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
by Madeleine Albright
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Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia — the country where she was born — the Battle of Britain, the near total destruction of European Jewry, the Allied victory in World War II... (read more)

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A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven
A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven
by Slavenka Drakulic
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A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe's exceptional authors. Called "a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail" by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulic-a native of Croatia-has... (read more)

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Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir
Burying the Typewriter: A Memoir
by Carmen Bugan
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Winner of the Bakeless Prize for Nonfiction, a childhood memoir of political oppression and persecution during Romania's Ceausescu years Carmen Bugan grew up amid the bounty of the Romanian countryside on her grandparent's farm where food... (read more)

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Balkans From the End of Byzantium To the Present Day
Balkans From the End of Byzantium To the Present Day
by Mark Mazower
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Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural, and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. In this highly acclaimed short history, Mark... (read more)

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The Triumph of Provocation
The Triumph of Provocation
by Jozef Mackiewicz
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This masterful political treatise, first published in 1962, examines the history and nature of Communism as it developed in the Soviet Union and in Poland. Józef Mackiewicz, known for his relentless opposition to Communism, argues that... (read more)

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Marie Louise and the Decadence of the Empire
Marie Louise and the Decadence of the Empire
by Imbert De Saint Aman
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the... (read more)

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A Romantic Education
A Romantic Education
by Patricia Hampl
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Golden Prague seemed mostly gray when Patricia Hampl first went there in quest of her Czech heritage. In that bleak time, no one could have predicted the political upheaval awaiting Communist Europe and the city of Kafka and Rilke. Hampl's subsequent... (read more)

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Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
by Judith Armatta
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An eyewitness account of the first major international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials, Twilight of Impunity is a gripping guide to the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The historic... (read more)

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From Dissident Party to Party Politics: The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Communist Hungary, 1989-1994
From Dissident Party to Party Politics: The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Communist Hungary, 1989-1994
by Bernard Ivan Tamas
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Bernard Ivan Tamas lays out the history of the struggle for democracy in the early years of transition, addressing the problem of competence in party politics and democratization and the consequences of amateurism and inexperience.... (read more)

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Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
by Lonnie R Johnson
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This historical survey of Central Europe covers a region that encompasses contemporary Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia. Central Europe abandons the Cold War convention of defining Central Europe in... (read more)

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Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West
by David Rieff
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In a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff, reporting from the Bosnia war zone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the United Nations for standing by and doing nothing to stop the genocide... (read more)

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The Great Shock at the End of a Short Century: On Communism, Post-Communism and Democracy
The Great Shock at the End of a Short Century: On Communism, Post-Communism and Democracy
by Ion Iliescu
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This book depicts, from the uniquely personal perspective of Ion Iliescu, former president of Romania, the historical drama of the global clash of political systems in the 20th century.... (read more)

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