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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
by Madeleine Albright
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Balkans From the End of Byzantium To the Present Day
by Mark Mazower
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The Triumph of Provocation
by Jozef Mackiewicz
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Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
by Lonnie R Johnson
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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
by Slavenka Drakulic
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Twilight of Impunity: The War Crimes Trial of Slobodan Milosevic
by Judith Armatta
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Balkan Inferno: Betrayal, War and Intervention 1990-2005
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From Dissident Party to Party Politics: The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Communist Hungary, 1989-1994
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The Will to Survive: A History of Hungary (Columbia/Hurst)
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Katyn 1940: The Documentary Evidence of the West's Betrayal
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Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West
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The Great Shock at the End of a Short Century: On Communism, Post-Communism and Democracy
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