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Madness Visible: A Memoir of War by Janine Di Giovanni Publisher Comments Bringing a human face to the tragedy of modern warfare, this incisive study looks at the devastating consequences of the breakup of Yugoslavia for the Balkan people, describing the cycles of violence and vengeance, atrocities, and mindless brutality that... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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Opposition and Legitimacy in the Ottoman Empire by Florian Riedler Publisher Comments In this account of the political culture of Ottoman rule in the late nineteenth century and the forces of opposition against it, the author examines a number of key political conspiracies and how these relate to the notion of legitimacy. In... (read more) Your price: $115.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Michael Korda Publisher Comments An eyewitness testimony on the Hungarian Revolution identifies the event as a turning point in Cold War history and is remembered through the experiences of four Oxford students who set out in a run-down Volkswagen to bring badly needed medicine to... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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With Their Backs to the World: Portraits from Serbia by sne Seierstad Publisher Comments Uses interviews and extended personal contact to depict thirteen Serbian individuals and one Serbian family before and after the arrest of former Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $13.88 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Heart of Europe: The past in Poland's Present by Norman Davies Publisher Comments Traces the history of Poland and examines the social and political life of the country.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $16.60 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II by Iván T. Berend Publisher Comments A history of Eastern Europe between the two World Wars.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Michelangelo in Ravensbrck: One Woman's War against the Nazis by Karolina Lanckorońska Publisher Comments A concentration camp survivor describes the mass murder of Poles, the serial horrors inflicted by both Russians and Nazis, and the immense courage of those who resisted during World War II.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $24.05 Google eBooks - Electronic
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After Hitler, before Stalin: Catholics, Communists, and Democrats in Slovakia, 1945-1948 by James Ramon Felak Publisher Comments After Hitler, Before Stalin examines the crucial postwar period in Slovakia, following Nazi occupation and ending with the Communist coup of February1948. Centering his work around the major political role of the Catholic Church and its leaders, James... (read more) List Price $21.56 Your price: $19.13 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Grooves of Change: Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium by James F. Brown Publisher Comments The Grooves of Change is the culmination of J. F. Brown’s esteemed career as an analyst of Eastern Europe. He traces events in this diverse and disruption-riddled region from the communist era to the years of transition after the fall of the Berlin... (read more) List Price $84.95 Your price: $78.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Children of Atlantis: Voices from the Former Yugoslavia by Zdenko Lešić Publisher Comments The Children of Atlantis is a collection of statements by a hundred young people who have fled various parts of the former Yugoslavia in the face of war and destruction, nationalism, hatred and ethnic cleansing, the pressure to take sides, and the draft.... (read more) List Price $10.36 Your price: $9.19 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Letters from Freedom: Post-Cold War Realities and Perspectives by Adam Michnik Publisher Comments A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today's most fearless and persuasive public figures. His imprisonment by Poland's military regime in the 1980s did nothing to quench his outpouring of writings, many of which were published in... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $25.69 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends by Lonnie Johnson Publisher Comments Throughout the Cold War era, the Iron Curtain divided Central Europe into a Communist East and a democratic West, and we grew accustomed to looking at this part of the world in bipolar ideological terms. Yet many people living on both sides of the Iron... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $11.10 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Milosevic: Portrait of a Tyrant by Dusko Doder Publisher Comments Traces Milosevic's rise to power, and discusses his family, the war crimes charges, and his... (read more) Your price: $16.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It May Continue For Years To Come The vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rife with discord, both... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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People of the Storm God: Travels in Macedonia by Will Myer Publisher Comments Travelling in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and the newly independent Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Myer encounters a bewildering array of political and cultural opinions-Orthodox Christians and Muslims, communists and nationalists, warlords and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $10.65 Google eBooks - Electronic
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To End a War by Richard C. Holbrooke Publisher Comments The former assistant secretary of state and architect of the Dayton peace accords recounts his efforts to bring the war in Bosnia to an end, tracing the perilous diplomatic negotiations that finally have brought some peace to the Balkans. Reprint. 30,000... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union by László Borhi Publisher Comments Based on new archival evidence, examines Soviet Empire building in Hungary and the American response to it. Analyzes why the US failed even in its minimal aims concerning the states of Eastern Europe. Both powers pursued power politics: the Soviets in a... (read more) List Price $39.96 Your price: $35.46 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Freedom for Publishing, Publishing for Freedom: The Central and East European Publishing Project by Timothy Garton Ash Publisher Comments The Oxford-based Central and East European Publishing Project was a remarkable initiative to support embattled Central and East European publishers and journals, and to punch holes through the cultural iron curtain by encouraging translations and a... (read more) List Price $22.40 Your price: $19.88 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Democracy at Dawn: Notes from Poland and Points East by Frederick Quinn Publisher Comments From the sweeping changes of democratic reform to the bloody conflict of the Chechen Republic, 1993-95 was a tumultuous and critical time for Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics. During that two-year period, Frederick Quinn traveled the former... (read more) List Price $14.98 Your price: $13.29 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Winning Ugly: Nato's War to save Kosovo by Ivo H. Daalder Publisher Comments After eleven weeks of bombing in the spring of 1999, the United States and NATO ultimately won the war in Kosovo. Serbian troops were forced to withdraw, enabling an international military and political presence to take charge in the region. But was this... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $20.37 Google eBooks - Electronic
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